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Gideons trip with his father to banks [Gideons is the son of Kenya's former President, Daniel Arap Moi]:
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But it is a mistake to think that the Gideons are a kind of guerrilla army of Christian soldiers stealthily placing bibles in rooms when nobody is looking.
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But it is a mistake to think that the Gideons are a kind of guerrilla army of Christian soldiers stealthily placing Bibles in rooms when nobody is looking.
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The Gideons were the organization, and they were made up of traveling Christian men.
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In a similar way, utilizing the Hebrew word Damah which is sometimes translated as a "parable" we were looking for the best in spiritual storytelling from all kinds of different perspectives and we weren't disappointed-we had films from every perspective one could imagine and after eight years of alternating between Seattle and Culver City, this year in addition to our Seattle fest, we've expanded to the Japanese city of Hiroshima and I am finding that it may have more in common with Athens than Seattle of L.A. Here is what I have experienced in just a few days here: At my hotel, the fabulous Righa Royal, there were two religious books in my nightstand drawer: A Bible courtesy of a group called The Gideons and a book on the sayings of Buddah.
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During the five years past nearly a thousand persons have taken part with us -- pastors, professors, deaconesses, foreign missionaries on furlough, evangelists, judges, lawyers, physicians, "Gideons" and other business men, and many good women.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896
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Mr.C. E. Homan, president of the C.icago camp of "Gideons," an organization of C.ristian commercial traveling men, and many members of that order have steadily helped in this work.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896
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At Gideons Elementary School, for example, a teacher hosted several colleagues at her home for a "changing party" to correct their students' answers.
When Teachers Cheat—And Then Blame the Tests Kyle Wingfield 2011
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Apparently the government thinks the Gideons volunteers are now a risk.
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"Religion and the Cult of Tolerance" Main Street, Aug. 16 by William McGurn is timely in that volunteers from Gideons International have been informed that they can no longer give Bibles at the local military induction center to the men and women entering the armed services.
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