the pairing of the bible for personal religion and the bible for empire continued to shape the history of scripture for a very long time. especially as the bible for the colonies, the bible pulsing at the heart of the british empire, became the bible for a few nation, the bible pulsing at the heart of the united states of america. thank you. [ applause ] >> we now get to our discussion section. we have a few ground rules. the first of which is, please wait until the microphone reaches you before speaking and secondly, please identify yourself as you talk. start over here. >> my name is ste ven shore. a question i can't help but ask having denounced the french and catholicism during the french and indian war how did many of the same writers respond to the french alliance? was this as problematic for them as the nazi soviet pact for communists in 1939? >> no, because necessity dictated it had to take place, although charles whom i quoted against tom payne had a field day after the alliance. he maintained the traditional trope of anti-catholicism to say what kind of fraudulent defense of liberty do we have now where supposedly the sons of liberty

the pairing much the bible for and empire igion continued to shape the history very long e for a time. especially as the bible for the the bible pulses at the heart of the british empire new e the bible for a nation, the bible pulses at the heart of the united states of america. thank you. [applause] get to our discussion section. we have a few ground rules feel is wait until the microphone referrals you before please identify yourself as you talk. e will start over here with steven. >> i'm steven shore. can't help estion i but ask. having denounced the french and during the french and indian war how did many of he same writers respond to t french alliance? was that as problematic for them soviet pact was for communists in 1939? because the necessity dictated this it had although charles english that i quoted will a .ield day after the alliance he maintained the traditional what atholicism to say kind of fraudulent defense of iberty do we have now where supposedly the sons of liberty heve aligned themselves with t --porters of pope shall tier popish tyranny and his argument fraud.t it was a witty, fan of mark knoll. two questi

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bibles is the center of a custody bible. author occasionally hirsh carol hirsh has 14 lunar bibles. the tak state of texas wants them back to pay for his care. she is under a gag order, the two sides are now in mediation. the stakes are high. lunar bibles have sold at auction for more than $50,000. proof one of the flights of the moon may be over, the price of souvenirs remains in orbit. adam may, al jazeera, houston . >> we will see how that story continues to take off. that's "america tonight." please tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. you can talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. >> in a little more than two years i.s.i.l. has become a major player in the conflicts raging in the middle east. in that time the group has overtaken al qaeda as the biggest foreign terrorist threat in most americans. smuggling of oil mountain territory i

his collection of lunar bibles is the center of a custody bible. author occasionally hirs carol r biblesthe tak state of texas wants thm back to pay for his care. she is under a gag order, the two sides are now in mediation. the stakes are high. lunar bibles have sold at auction for more than $50,000. proof one of the flights of the moon may be over, the price of souvenirs remains in orbit. adam may, al jazeera, houston. >> we will see how that story continues to take off. that's "america tonight." please tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. you can talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. >> chaos, carnage and urban warfare in the iraqi city of ramadi. we will bring you the latest on the iraqi army's dramatic advance against i.s.i.l. plus: christmas eve in the birth place of jesus. celebrations were mooulted as ms celebrations were marked by violence in the west bank. plus,li

because the law is almost always been evolved to regulate food, so when you go back and read the bible, the bible has a lot of food law. when you go back to roman times, roman times have a lot of law, and the basic problem in that is the basic problem we face today, which is two -- food purity and food safety. they are related but not the same. when i buy this thing and i put it in my body, am i getting what i see, and how do i know that? when you take a glass of milk, it is hard to tell if it is milk and water or some other thing, and whether that is poisonous or organic -- it is so hard to tell by looking at an drinking the product. that is true for almost all food, and that has always been true for almost all food, so we have ways of addressing that, purity disclosure rules today, laboring rules, safety rules, production programs, so much of what the federal government is doing, and also the state and local governments are doing, is actually trying to fix up problem, which we never have. the food purity problem -- making sure that what we eat is what we want and does not make us sick. michael:

bible. the bible has a lot of food law. if you go back and look at roman times, runtime that a lot of law.basic problems they were actually the basic problems we face today. thetheir feud -- food purity and food safety. they are related but not the same. food purity problem is potentially when i put in my body, am i getting what i see? how do i know that? when we take a glass of milk it's hard to tell if it's milk or milk and water or milk and water of some other, whether it's poisonous per se for organic the it's hard to tell by looking at it in drinking the product. that's true for almost all food and that has always been true for almost all foods. we had ways of addressing that, weights and measures rules, purity disclosure rules today, labeling rules, safety rules, production programs. so much of what the government is doing that also the state and local government is doing is trying to fix that problem which we never fully fixed. food purity problem and the food safety problem making sure what we eat is what we want and also doesn't make us sick or kill us. >> that gets us off in earl

bible or other bibles. learn more to keep the two separated, we would get a lot more done and waste a lot less money because everybody interprets the bibles differently when they have been translated over all these years. people all the time start saying , no, this sentence means this. but nobody really knows who wrote it or why it was even given to us. but these politics we have, these are for us to live by. when it comes down to our politics, we need to have engineers, not preachers, in congress. we need to have doctors, we need to have smart people, people who are highly educated. in aied it mix mythological book, everybody starts scratching their head. you grow all these different religions and all the different religions seem to be at each other's throats all the time. host: we go to columbia, south carolina and robert on our independent line. robert, hello. you are on the air. caller: good morning. merry christmas and happy new years to all. thank you to c-span. really appreciate it and try to watch it as much as i can. as a 68-year-old, i am very persuaded that we have no lock on righteousness as individuals. so let's be tolerated

pastor, first church of the open bible 5:40:48 "beaverdale is the place to be this year to look at lights." - spencer keroff - lead pastor, first church of the open bible while the light displays are bringing everyone closer to christmas time... the metro is still missing one thing... we now join meteorologist brett mcintyre to see if we'll have a white christmas...hi brett! we may not get a white christmas...but one metro sure more than two dozen children will have presents for christmas. the kids got a free shopping spree at jordan creek mall today. "liberty ready mix", a local concrete company, paired with "the greater des moines neighbor to neighbor foundation" 26 children received 400 dollars each to shop. most of the kids came from families who were victims of violent crimes or came from families in need. this was the first year for the event... i just thought we were just going to get clothes but when i heard we could get anything, i was like okay i'm excited now its' far from christmas cheer on the campaign trail. coming up after the break... donald trump's still far, far ahead in the latest republican presidential polls. hear how other candida

pastor, first church of the open bible 5:40:48 "beaverdale is the place to be this year to look at lights." - spencer keroff - lead pastor, first church of the open bible giving the gift of light...at the corner of beaver avenue and hickman road. in des moines, reid chandler, channel 13 news. automatically starts at five-thirty each evening... the neighborhood light display is just down the street at ashby and beaver avenue. areas of fog and drizzle may develop as we head into the overnight. some light rain will move across the state after midnight. most of the rain will fall over the se 1/2 of the state, with rain possible in des moines as well. temperatures will remain above average over the 7-day, but rain has crept into the forecast for wednesday. rainfall totals of 0.25" or more will be possible, especially over eastern iowa. the timing of the storm will need to be monitored as well, as a chance for the rain to change to snow over western iowa is not completely out of the question. the forecast should be dry for christmas eve and christmas day, but more rain, especially in se iowa, will be likely over the weekend. areas of fog and drizzle may over

bible, the first bible printed in america. and it is printed in the language of the outcome quinn indians because it was used to christianize the indians. said john elliott arranged working with a native speaker to translate the bible into the algonquin language. we have newspapers of every sort. is what happens to also be in an indian language. it's called the "cherokee phoenix," and half of the characters in the stories are in roman type, in english, and half are in the syllabary of the cherokee people. so we have newspapers, books, manuscripts. this manuscript is the oldest manuscript that relates to the founding of new england. this was a minute the of the council for new england that was, back in england had the rights to settle new england and this is their minute but that they kept from 1622. but some of things that we have, this was given to us in the 19th century and it's a children's book, a very well preserved little pamphlet called a new year's present. and it contains the first picture of santa claus. santa claus is here with his sleigh, and it was something that came to us with a collection of well preserved children's books. from the period before 1820, we estimate we had the best collection in the w

so now this is the bible talking. and the bibles telling us that the world is about to be destroyed and the third world war and this is the beginning of the third world war. >> okay. don. we got your point. we heard that. what do you make -- the third world war is something the king of jordan is also saying. this is their third world war. >> i think internally, in the arab world, in the middle east, the problems we're seeing geopolitically, if you are jordan, you are surrounded by extreme problematic situations. i won't go to the point of calling it a third world war. but for the region, it is. i would be very cautious and reluctant to make it into a religious prophecy, doomsday kind of analysis. but what we are seeing from a geopolitical point in the middle east is extremely intense. with a variety of forces clashing. and sectarian under tones which we have not seen in a long time in sanctuaries and that is problematic because this narrative of the end of times is shaping, not just isis but also other forces on the ground in the m

bible." george lucas: it's not the bible, by a long shot. it was the inspiration.w i wanted to make a movie based on those cereals. -- serials. it would not be flash gordon. i was not going to try to get the rights. i realize, after i did not get it, i did not want flash gordon. "i don't want to do that. i want a space opera like flash gordon." if i were making that movie, i would take flash gordon out and take all that stuff, mungo, all about and say, i don't want to do that stuff. what i wanted to do was more on the lines of star wars and less flash gordon. there's a similarity, but definitely a difference in perspective about how they do it. that's it in the right direction about thinking about how to mix of the new but inspired by it. people go through it and tell me what the inspirations are. they are. writer -- with ur just like whether you are a writer or a politician, you steep yourself into the genre you work in. you know all the various kinds of things, and you can pull the various parts of what you learned, in theory. charlie: where did the idea of the f

but the reality is the first morality tales you realize, maybe it's the bible, but it's not the biblewhen you're a kid, it's batman and spider-man and wonder woman. the most important participant of the story is clark kent because we're all clark kent, and we all know what it's like to be boring and ordinary and wish we could do something beyond ourself. and what i love about the work is it lets us step into the fantastic. truly in -- i never read anything that i feel like i can do, which means i read a lot. [laughter] but it takes me into that world of things i know i can't do. >> having opened up with comic books, you're going to make everyone else here feel much more comfortable about their airport reading. [laughter] >> that's right. comics don't deserve any snobbery. to me every genre is 90% garbage and 10% gold. that's literary fiction be, history and comics. and we used to see this as hierarchy. that's garbage. that's snobbery. to me, you find the 10% of gold in anything, and neil gayman and ryan moore, that's the gold in that world, and i love that i get to support it and be o

this is the bible talking and the bible is selling us that the world is about to be destroyed in theorld war and this is the beginning of the third world war. host: we got your point. what do you make of that? third world war is something that the king of jordan is their third world war. in the arabnally world and he middle east, the problems they are seeing geopolitically are extremely tense and you are -- they are surrounded by extremely photomedex situations. call itknow if i would a third world war, but for the region, it would need very cautious and reluctant to make it into a religious prophecy or doomsday kind of analogy. for we are seeing from italy just geopolitical point is extremely tense with a variety of forces clashing and sectarian undertones that which we have not seen in a long time in sanctuaries and that is -- because the narrative at the end justmes is shaping not isis but also other forces on the ground in the middle east. that is extremely problematic. countries where you have different groups living side by side for a long time with intermarriages and are now e

bible. >> well, it wasn't the bible by a long shot. it was the inspiration.with flash gordon, i knew i wanted to make a movie based on the serials, but it wasn't going to be flash gordon. so i did try to get the rights flash gordon couldn't and that was good because if i had it would have set me off. i realized after i didn't get it, i said, i really don't want flash gordon. i want a space opera that's like flash gordon, but if i were making that movie, i would probably take flash gordon out of it and take mongo and all that stuff, i don't want to do that stuff because what i really wanted to do was more on the lines of "star wars" and less on the lines of flash gordon. there is a similar later between the two but there is differently a difference in perspective about how they're doing it. so that set me in the right direction of setting something up completely new but inspired by westerns. people go through and say these are all the inspirations that influenced "star wars," and they are. just like whether you're a writer, a painter, whether you're a politici

bible 1492 and 1783. e argues that americans frequently relied on the bible to support and oppose political ideas.d this nter 90-minute program. > it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoon's speak mark noll thessor professor of history at dame.rsity of notre he's the author of many books ncluding "god and race in american politics, a short history" published in 2008. theologicalr and

34-year-old gabriel lopez is accused of molesting two girls who were a part of his bible study class at the valley bible church student ministry. lopez was arrested this week at his home. he also volunteered as a football coach. detectives believe there may be other victims. >>> authorities are trying to identify the driver of a pickup that was killed in a fiery crash on the railroad tracks in south san francisco. it happened at around 3:00 yesterday afternoon near the south city cal tran station. witnesses say the truck was seen speeding and driving erratically along near bihighway 101 moments before the accident. investigators say they will need dna or dental records to identify the remains. >>> there's a new controversy between the two leading democrats running for president. a software glitch allowed four members of the bernie sanders campaign to download confidential files about hillary clinton's voter base. sanders responded by firing one of those staffers. but it did not end there. the democratic national committee shut the sanders campaign out of its database. that prompted sanders to file a law

bibles and i would slip his book inside the bible. i am laughing because i am reading the salman rushdie novel. when i first read that book i was so appalled by it. i was a dickens guide, a victorian. the idea of messing with narrative like that never occurred to me. in reading like that, it gave me permission to write in a certain way. the same thing with toni morrison and song of solomon. british, in a very colonial education. disillusionment, change of the geography. i was looking for bigger answers than the church could give. very, a lot ofbe praise and worship not a lot of intellectual stimulation. it is hard to begin jamaica -- be gay in jamaica. . was a celibate christian thinking that i was sustaining myself that way. not anything that ever confronted in jamaica. for moving when i left was that i just wanted to be somewhere else. lot a knock on a jamaica. i adore my country. it took years of coming into myself and wanting more out of life. want, who am i? i am in all of of coates. his article ons reparations was the best thing that has been said about it. acute don't realize the nature of race in jamaica. mess is a whole different kind of mess. ourse far more subtle with .s more endemic we have a very british racism. we might not have had to desegregate our schools and at the same time we didn't have to if everybody's trying to bleach their skins and get their families lighter and lighter. rose: do you get up and write at a certain time of day? james: it is been different for each book. for one book i got up at 5:00 in the morning and were up till 9:00. i would stop to regardless of where i was. a character a day. that is white ended up being the kind of book that is. it is the first novel i wrote what i had to let go of my idea of what a novel should be. my last novel despite being written in the slave language still adheres to the classic idea of a novel. multiple characters. stories that sometimes just peter out. the novel doesn't and it just stops. which is weird for a 700 page novel. i had to let go of all that. i will leave in in into my editor takes it out. that's how i got there. taking up more than he did. even after he approved it, i took 10,000 words out. i don't did i tried to distinguish between memory and history. fiction, as a writer i reserve the right for invention. fantasies and making things up. ways responding to gaps in history. there are things of that this that we areabout never going to know. such as the names of the men who tried to kill bob marley. i didn't even start to write a novel. i started to write a novella. i was reading jim thompson and , really classic short crime novels. i wanted to write a cool crime novel. i kept running into dead ends with these characters. the first character that i wrote in this novel is on page 458. i was still writing it in the way that i wrote my previous novel and i kept running into dead ends. said to me what you think it is just one person's story? that was the turning point. charlie rose: have you read as i lay dying? jame? james: i read frank sinatra has a cold, this stunning essay by gate ouy talese. i didn't even need marley's name for the book. i just said the singer. turns into this bob marley has a cold kind of novel. there were lots of reasons why they wanted to kill him. he was becoming too influential in jamaica. house, theirther's pictures on the wall. political party, no pictures of the family. that is how much the calls of personality became ingrained. the idea that people in the ghettos in the slums of jamaica could think for themselves even to the point may be forming their own government was just unthinkable. and the left wing both hated that. he was becoming too much of the unifier. the booka character in who says bad times are good times for somebody. he was disrupting that way too much. the idea that one side may have wanted to become a martyr. , the only other person on that level. i cannot think of another artist who has summary forces working against him. every day is a negotiation between some of the most dangerous man in the country and him. he wasy days before smoking weed with. house is asn the outrageous and attack as the attack on him. these killers violated that. rose: you show violence and sex in a rather graphic and detailed way. james: violence should be violent. ofre is a was a danger sliding into a pornography of violence. just like with sex. i tell my students to risk pornography. get close to it. is not just a matter of being visceral. explicit violence or real violence may shock the reader but ultimately it doesn't turn him off from that narrative. , this is sonse was bad that i stopped reading the book, that is different from i was shocked but i finished the book. it is a very very fine line but you always have to walk it. charlie rose: writing female characters. james: i struggled with them early on. it was another writer, she read and she saidovel you have a clue about women. i am in civil jamaican man raised by woman. she said who do you read? like a lot of male writers, i haven't read any women. she was the one who made me read toni morrison. that changed my life. whereis a scene in sula and nown her deathbed finally confronts her. i have done this, i have seen this. i have all this great things that i have done. she says what you have to show for it? then sula says showalter who. who.ow to that was the validating moment. i'll have to prove anything to anybody. rose: you called winning the booker prize affirming. james: it is the riskiest and loosest novel i have ever written. i still consider myself a victorian novelist. i still believe in the nuts and bolts to the point of annoying my students. playing with narrative. writing a chapter in blank verse. writing a nine page sentence. this is the first time the novelist in my head came down to the page intact. awarded to that is a hell of a thing. it means that i can be myself as a novelist. rose: will this affect caribbean literature? james: there so many exciting voices. .e don't just mean anglo cuban literature has been revolutionized. literature coming out of puerto rico. haiti.rom a novel from the virgin islands. has a whole bunch of new writers coming up. i am leaving the 20th century behind for a little bit. i am going to africa in the 11th century. argument aboutis hobbit. we're having a discussion we always have about diversity. if the shire was multiracial, nobody would've cared. the lord of the rings is european. i said you can do whatever you want with it. about the rich mythical and historical tradition of africa and the great african empires. the huge folklore that is there. .onsters and witches they even have their own vikings. it had nothing to do with scandinavia. i am not trying to write a historical novel. i'm trying to do and invented worlds. resource. that huge and to be a total geek with it. , almostluenced by film more so than books. , the are things that opening scene of touch of evil can do so much for a novel. i'm influenced by the crime writers. orson welles, alfred hitchcock, the visual language. film has to get its residents from the actuality of the scene. i don't get to tell you a metaphor so you can appreciate it. .harlie rose: thank you it was a pleasure to have you here. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ word peast: her 5000 in national geographic calls mary the most powerful woman in the world. we are so pleased to welcome her. orth: merry christmas to you. hunt: tell us about these apparitions. there have been 2500 reported apparitions and sightings and appearances of mary. only 16 of those have ever gotten vatican approval to be considered to meet the standards that they consider them to be real. it doesn't mean the others weren't. al hunt: is always the poor and the crisis ridden. orth: she speaks in their native languages. rwanda she spoke in the language there. sometimes it is reported that she appears so frequently over such a long. of time that the three young women to whom she appeared in rwanda in 1982 to study calling -- just started calling her mama. hunt: what do scientists say about this? do they say it is hocus-pocus? orth: some people think it is hocus-pocus. millions around the world believe in this. the catholic church itself, which isn't the only religion that believes in miracles, says that you are free to believe it or not. al hunt: you wouldn't instinctively associate rwanda with mary. said they spent time with mary. also foresaw the terrible genocide of the 1990's. mary was a kind of a brown color. she is breathtakingly beautiful, she is always young and has this beautiful voice. she emanates such radiance of light and love that people are awestruck. she first appeared in this girls boarding school in 1982. there were many other people but the reported apparitions church decided that this is were the ones that they would officially recognize. some of whomesses, i also interviewed. the girls really started crying and they would have these public apparitions and thousands of people, and gather and it was like a one-way telephone conversation. they could hear with the girls were saying but not was coming back. the girls started crying and said don't show me. she was predicting the rivers of blood that happened 12 years later. you went to lourdes. there are millions who go there. you went with some moroccan afghan wounded war veterans. maureen orth: foras incredible experience may. me. there, sory gathers that the french and germans could get together after world war ii and focus on peace and focus on justice and human rights rather than war. mary would be the unifying figure. i was there with a group of that wentrriors through the archdiocese of the military. 40% of them were non-catholic. they had a lot of traumatic brain injuries. peace that sense of thatgot from being in place. it was a very humbling experience. were you bathed in the spring waters there? maureen orth: there are volunteers there who help you out of your clothes. there is a picture of the virgin mary. you walk down the steps and you get into the water. i have always tried to be the very objective reporter. after i was walking out of the water, i got this very calm sense of peace and tranquility. al hunt: there was nothing that surprised me more in this terrific article then that she andelebrated by muslims their more mary citations in the koran that there on the biblen orth: she is known as the holiest woman ever to be born. there is a fascinating nativity birth narratives about how the baby jesus was born. koranngel appeared in the car on be?tells her how can that if god says is going to be, it is going to be. she is vilified to be pregnant without a man. she goes off into the desert to have a baby by yourself. humiliated she says i would rather die than have to go back like this. as the baby jesus comes out he talks like a man. there is a palm tree and the dates are going to fall. the water comes all around her. she brings the baby back to her community so she can be accepted. see, fascinating to me to when i was in cairo, i met muslim women who have a great deal of love and veneration of mary. some women go into coptic churches and really create her there. pray to her there. there really are not references in the gospels to marry. we don't know a lot about her. maureen orth: she is only mentioned four times really in the bible. she speaks very l

bible verses and passages. favorite verse from the bible? >> yes, i do. do you? >> stephen: i do. >> stephen: um, uh, so, i like-- mine is from matthew. i like it because jesus says, "so i say to you, do not worry, for who among you by worrying can change a hair on his head or add a cubit to the span of his life." what i like it about it is that it's a commandment to not worry. and i'll go with that. i'll go with that. >> i love that. >> stephen: i can't live it, i can't do it, but i like that-- it's not like, you know, "try not to worry," it's "so i say to you, do not worry." >> i love that. >> stephen: so if you worry, you are being disobedient. >> that's right. if you worry, you sinning. >> stephen: exactly, exactly. so, how about you? >> okay, mine is psalms 37-4: "delight thyself..." i love the word "delight," don't cheers ) i'm so glad that david knew it. >> stephen: oh, david was into ) okay, how about these stories? >> no, wait, wait, wait, "delight thyself in the lord. he will give you the desires of your heart." now what that says to me, lord has a wide range. what is "lord?" compassion, love, forgiveness, kindness. so you delight yourself in those virtues, where the character of "the lord" is revealed. delight thy self in goodness, delight thy self in love, delight thy self in kindness, compassion, and you will receive the desires of your heart. interesting. >> don't you like that? >> stephen: yeah. >> it says-- it says to me, if you focus on being a force for good, then goodness will come, which is also the third law of motion, which is also-- karma, which is also the golden rule. secret, like that book, "the secret," too. >> kind of, yeah. >> stephen: a little bit like that. is there, all kinds of different atheists in this, there are people who... >> christian, hindu, buddhist, muslim. >> stephen: is there a favorite story or is there-- okay, if you hadn't been raised christian, would you look at this and go, like "okay, what is my second choice, here?" i had to pick a second one... based on these stories! you-- i-- i'm not asking for an ultimate oprah judgement, okay. this is not oprah's religion club. >> yes, okay. this is a great-- >> stephen: is there one that really appeals to you; a story that really appeals to you? >> the great thing about belief is that it allows you to see the range and to be what i'm hoping is more accepting. because you know, we live in this world where people try to just tolerate each other. >> stephen: not that hard. >> not that hard either. and i want to say, my god, people, it's the planet earth. we're all different, and we're all here to learn to accept each other's differences. and that's what makes us the planet earth. ( applause ) that's what makes it. my favorite story is an aboriginal grandfather who is trying to teach his grandson what he calls the "song line." now i have never heard of a song line, but that's what they believe, that the answer, that they were sung into existence or sang into existence. and he's teaching the song line and as he's watching his grandson, as he's passing on the story of their ancestral 50,000 year-old history. he says, "i have to pass these words on to my grandson, otherwise he won't know who he is." and that to me is so true. that if you don't have your grandmothers and your mothers and your grandfathers telling you who you are, where you come from, then you will be lost. he says, "i have to pass this on to my grandson so he will not be lost." >> stephen: i love that because, um... >> yeah. thank you. >> stephen: there's a great... one of the stories i really liked is, it's a young man, about to be a young man, i believe in budapest, and he is and, this is a beautiful story. jim, take a look at this. >> this is a time for mendel to begin thinking more about the world, and his place in it. >> it starts saying like, hey, i'm bar mitzvah-ed. now i should be starting why is the sky blue, why is the grass green? is god a person with an old white beard? >> my son mendel, i like the way he questions things. questioning is the heart of ( chanting in hebrew ) >> doing his bar mitzvah, mendel will lead a service in the synagogue and read aloud from the torah, the first five books of the hebrew bible. >> stephen: what i love about that story... >> i love that too. ( applause ) that story, and i love about so many of the stories, like the story of the nine-year-old jumping from the tower on pentecost island in the south pacific for his father, is that, you know, i go to church and i am somewhat religious. and when i try to explain to some people who aren't, or that i have a belief. is that, i say, well, i was given this by my ancestors. and i look at my children, and i go, i love them, i wouldn't want to give them anything that i wouldn't think would help them. so i assume i was given this by my ancestors because they gave it to me to try to help me. >> help you, yes. >> stephen: and i open it like a box and wonder what is inside. but i don't think have i gotten to the bottom at any point. i want to keep-- >> i don't think we ever do. i don't think we ever do. >> stephen: keep taking the gift out. >> yes, i don't think we ever do. >> stephen: but it is not the only gift you can get

bible right here. when she died, i wanted her bible. >> she didn't know you're a homeless. >> i didn't want sympathy from nobody. >> reporter: he finds inspirations from one verse in particular. >>hat does it mean? >> the dog is still living. you know, some time i felt like giving up some times. be so miserable and cold. i feel like everything's going against me. but i think about that scripture all the time. >> there are too many homeless veterans. >> there are so many of us. >> why are there so many >> i was too scared to ask for help. i didn't know who i was goingo help for ask. >> reporter: a caseworker with miriam's kitchenen an organization dedicated to ending homelessness in washington d.c. he applied for a voucher which will pay for rent. >> housing comes first. once someone gets a roof over their head, everything else falls into place easier. >> it's like moving from a dungeon to a castle i'm not lying. >> there it is. >> for the first time in years, tony walks into his home through a door. >> please come in my castle. >> tony can now take a shower and put on a suit so he can go to a job intervi

bible. the big museum is illuminating the word exhibit tomorrow. you'll see more than 70 pages of a bible commissioned by a college in minnesota. every single letter and illustration in the st. johns bibles done by hand. the artists used turkey, goose, and swan quills for pens, animal skin for paper, and candle smoke and soot for ink. they call it a labor of love and hope you come see it for yourself. >> if you're a person who loves books, you're going to love it, if you're a person of strong faith, it's going to be natural for you. if you're a person of no faith and love contemporary art, there's something for you, as well. >> the museum is located next to delaware's state capitol building in dover. the exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through march 27th. >>> americans with diabetes are at an increased risk for tooth loss. after studying 40 years of data, researchers found diabetics had higher rates of tooth loss than people without the commission. african-americans with diabetes were at a greater risk compared to other races. experts believe a lack in dental services and knowledge is to blame. >>> and it turns out too many americans aren't doing enough to treat bad cholesterol, even th

bible. we lot of evangelicals. we are polling so well. this bible was goifn me, i won't tell you the year because they will say that's a long time ago, right? charles: that was donald trump at a rally in iowa last night tapping into the religious base, suggesting that perhaps ted cruz coming out of cuba maybe not an evangelical. the roles of evangelicals throwing their money around, someone will help decide who wins this race, not just voter. a lot think in iowa it will be the evangelicals. todd, let me go to you first. the inference donald trump was make yesterday, you can't come out of cuba and be evangelical. >> i'm waiting for that youtube moment. as a resident evangelical here in new york city, i'm not sure brother donald will have a good showing when it comes to iowa. this has been proven time and time again. mitt romney is a good example of that. he poured millions of dollars in iowa and came out a loser. in iowa the folks there understand the real deal. ted cruz has the upper hands and he will probably win iowa because he's the real deal. i'm not surer in going to connect with donald trump. charles: i remember the family value ofs gathering, the straw poll taken later. trump did not win that, he came in fifth place. this is serious, but how important is it beyond iowa to win this niche of the gop? >> very important. especially with the new marie design. if you look at states that come after the extra fissional first three, nine out of tefn those tornadoes are in if the bible belt. that's the sec primary, if you will. alabama, georgia, oklahoma, the dakotas. states where the evangelical voting bloc is 75-80% in some of these states. the media is trying to state that it's just iowa. but there is an argument to be made that the evangelical block will decide the candidate. charles: their network raised almost $900 million with the koch brothers. having put so much emphasis on the fact that billionaires play a role, maybe it's overstating. >> billionaires have played a role going back to nelson rock ferrell and jpmorgan. but this time is different. it's not just the trump factor. part of it is conservatives have risen up and realize they must engage or they will continue to have candidates shoved down their throat like the john mccain, like bob dole, like mitt romney, and this time they won't sit down for it because they believe for the first time ever that their children's future is at stake. charles: so far this has been different than anything we have seen

bible. a father son duo restored a bible nearly 100 years old from 1640. this after the repair it looks almost grand must. the father and son are in the book business rest tore nation 40 years. huge book binding machines can be found throughout the house they enjoy breathing new life into treasures from the past. >>> here at the "action news" big board muppets don't drum up a lot of trauma or debate but there's a controversy offer a puppets book for every child a better world. it features raw talk from the muppets about topics like homelessness and poverty. one school board member is fighting to get it taken out of the school saying it's inappropriate for a 5-year-old. >> i'm more protective i feel like i like to maintain his innocence for as long as possible i red reviews there's some said it was read to them as a child and traumatized them. >>> others say it tackles real life issues in their community and teaches compassion and caring. after a vote the book is staying in the classroom for now. well this will have wine lovers saying cheers you know i love

bible here. the only thing i wanted when she died was her bible. >> but she didn't know you were homeless? >> nobody knows. >> why didn't you tell her? >> i didn't want sympathy from nobody. i'm a grown man, i can take care of myself. inspiration from one verse in particular. >> for a living dog is better than a dead lion. >> what does it mean? >> the dog is still living. the lion ain't got nothing going on. you know, some time i felt like giving up some time. be so miserable and cold. i feel like everything's going against me. but i think about that scripture all the time. it pulled me right out of there. >> there are too many homeless veterans. >> why are there so many homeless veterans even now? >> my case was, i was too scared to ask for help. i was embarrassed about it. i didn't know who i was going to help for ask. >> reporter: emily, a caseworker with miriam's kitchen, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness in washington d.c., she helped jones apply for a voucher which will pay for his rent. >> housing comes first. once someone gets a roof over their head, other things fal

bible's role in american public life between 1492 and 1783. in the talk, noll argues that americans frequently relied on the bible to support and oppose political ideas. the wilson center hosted this 90 minute program. >> thank you all for coming out on this overcast fall afternoon. it is my pleasure to introduce this afternoon's speaker, professor mark noll who is the

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bible, could make it so. let that sink in. religion, the bible -- not conscience -- the things that animate them in conduct, behavior, -- animate human conduct, behavior, and life, he believed, could let them treat blacks as anything they have ever been treated. or freezing -- francis got key -- francis got key's, the mant who wrote the national anthem. that is what he believed. intoi say we were born this reality, i mean it. when i say we have a real opportunity to bring substantive change to the nation, i believe it. we can do that, but we have to acknowledge the reality of who we are and where we have come from, and not just the narrative. we have ahoffman: question from twitter as well as some of my students, and jordan and brooke, and parker from twitter -- basically, you mentioned in several articles that racial sensitivity classes are not enough to help stop brutality. what are some other tactics you recommend for either preventing that, or repercussions? mr. hudson: the only one that works is punishment. the only thing that will get us to