Matt Saracen

no-name Matt Saracen, a sophomore backup who had never seen the field and had very limited athletic ability. Where as, the movie features Mike Winchell a senior, receiving his first start ever as a panther. The hard-working, small and determined quarterback faces adversity and leads his panther team to victory even without star running back and offensive juggernaut Booby Miles. Winchell takes it upon himself to lead his team and show them what he can do. On the other hand, in the tv series, Matt Saracen

demonstrate the significance they still have for Christianity today and what lessons contemporary Christians should learn from them. The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars launched between 1095 and 1291 by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens who were Moslems. The name Crusade is derived from an old French word ‘crois’, meaning ‘the cross’. The idea was to urge Christian warriors to go to Palestine and free Jerusalem and other holy places from Muslim domination (Internet Source 1). The

Jihad It was once a word unfamiliar to American ears. But in recent years it has become all too familiar. The actions of Muslim militants and terrorists have seared the word into American consciousness. Yet even with thousands of innocent civilians killed on American soil by Islamic terrorists, the full significance of the Muslim concept of jihad has not been grasped by the American public. In the days after September 11, 2001, American leaders rushed to portray Islam as a peaceful religion that