In the Roman- Catholic Church, Christ as God is distant, fair and a punisher, but in the Greek Orthodox religion, Jesus takes on a more simple, human form, depicted in our icons as he who was sacrificed and subsequently resurrected, cleansing mankind of sin.
Should the ethnicities of one's distant relatives be considered fair game, or just parents?
In the Donegal of my distant childhood it's fair to say we were not overrun with strangers.
At 7 he became fascinated with the gospel singing and guitar playing of a sanctified preacher, Archie Fair, a distant relative, at the Church of God in Christ.
Once there were manned voyages to the Moon, regular, unmanned departures for the distant planets and a fair wind of shared national commitment that seemed sure to carry those who ventured far beyond the Earth.
I wove through a distant part of the fair, where university students were showing off their jumpy robots, and when I caught up with the government delegation all the LG booth women, in white dresses with red cuffs just below the elbow, red dickey collars, red belts, and white shoes, had lined up in a V formation to greet them, their hands clasped politely at their waists.
There are questions, for sure, over how it'll be implemented, with the spectre of corruption not fully banished, especially in a country where distant provinces carry a fair amount of independence from Jakarta.
Of course when catastrophes grow distant enough, they become fair game in other ways.
Its 17,400 officers will cover a patch of more than 30,000 square miles and a population of 5.3m people; its beat is vast, ranging from the housing estates of east end Glasgow to the distant islands of Shetland and Fair Isle.
Ah Robin! sing loud on the far-distant lea, Thou friend in fair weather; But here is a song sung, that's fuller of glee, By two warm hearts together.
Participants who believed in a moralistic and punishing God were about five times fairer to their distant "co-religionists" than participants who didn't know whether their God was moralistic, the researchers found.
