"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.

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Also on this week's BBC Radio Lancashire faith programme, we looked into complaints that Blackburn Cathedral were offering alternative communion bread blessed by a man, when their main Sunday morning service, including communion is taken by Dr. Sue Penfold.

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Jesus said that man does not live by bread alone, and whether you are religious or not, this is a profound insight into human psychology.

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Michele Pierre-Louis says if Preval is still the same bread-maker he was as a young man, Haiti might have a chance.

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In Islam, the bread-earning role is primarily assigned to man, but if a woman wants to join in this effort by her own volition, she is not forbidden to do so.

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One does not have to legalize stealing bread to forgive Valjean: one must only forgive the relatively small evil of stealing bread in order to avoid the greater evil of keeping a good man in a position of perpetual fear.

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Although the man and his wife are fasting because of Ramadan, we are offered cheese and bread and cream.

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Another man on Capitol Hill lobbying this week: Reverend David Beckman, a Lutheran minister who runs Bread for the World, an anti-hunger religious activist group.

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