Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: By Accident
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Muslim Americans Find Their Voice Amid The Shouts
NPR Topics: Religion5 Sep 2010 | 12:42 pmIn towns across the country, the voices of those who don't want mosques built in their neighborhoods are growing louder. The open expressions of hostility have become so loud in recent months, that a coalition of Muslim groups is taking steps to remind people that American Muslims are Americans -- the same as anyone else.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Jim Luce: Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11
Christianity on The Huffington PostOne need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in Florida. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, whose pastor Terry Jones has written a book called Islam is of the Devil, believes he is called by God to defeat non-Christians in general, and Muslims in specific. Terry Jones has written a hate-filled book. Fortunately his excessive ideas have not carried widely. The church, according to Voice of America, has about 50 members (VOA). Their web presence is far more ominous, with a Facebook… -
Pope Gives Keys to Leo XIII's Lasting Contributions [2010-09-05]
Big News Network.com - Religious News5 Sep 2010 | 7:31 pmZenit.org ).- By understanding social questions as something to be dealt with positively and effectively through dialogue and mediation, Pope Leo XIII led a Church capable of dealing with the great is... -
AP: Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood
PewForum.org | All News Feeds2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmThe bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: By Accident
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Canine Nanny
3 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmChicken Soup for the Soul: Moms Know Best -
Cherry Cobbler Recipe
3 Sep 2010 | 5:00 amTreat your loved ones to a tasty dessert -
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Where's Your Notebook?
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmChicken Soup for the Soul: Wisdom of Dads -
Ham Stuffed Chicken Breasts
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 amYour dinner plans are all set
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NPR Topics: Religion
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Muslim Americans Find Their Voice Amid The Shouts
5 Sep 2010 | 12:42 pmIn towns across the country, the voices of those who don't want mosques built in their neighborhoods are growing louder. The open expressions of hostility have become so loud in recent months, that a coalition of Muslim groups is taking steps to remind people that American Muslims are Americans -- the same as anyone else.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Safer For Your Soul, But Is Kosher Healthier, Too?
4 Sep 2010 | 12:04 pmAfter mad cow disease, peanut butter recalls and e-coli in spinach, shoppers want to know what’s in their food and where it comes from. That's turned a very old way of eating into a very new way of shopping -- one that crosses religious lines.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Indonesians Protest Fla. Church's Quran-Burning Day
4 Sep 2010 | 10:57 amThe Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., said it will burn the Islamic holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Religious leaders in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, have appealed to U.S. authorities to stop the event.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
Fire At Tennessee Mosque Site Ruled As Arson
3 Sep 2010 | 2:36 pmU.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Steven Gerido said Friday that lab tests confirmed an accelerant was used in the fire early Saturday in Murfreesboro. The site is the location for a new Islamic center, which has drawn vehement opposition.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us -
No God Needed To Create Universe, Hawking Says; Your Thoughts?
3 Sep 2010 | 7:39 amThe famed physicist argues in a new book that "spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing."» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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Christianity on The Huffington Post
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Jim Luce: Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11
One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in Florida. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, whose pastor Terry Jones has written a book called Islam is of the Devil, believes he is called by God to defeat non-Christians in general, and Muslims in specific. Terry Jones has written a hate-filled book. Fortunately his excessive ideas have not carried widely. The church, according to Voice of America, has about 50 members (VOA). Their web presence is far more ominous, with a Facebook… -
U.S. Quran Burning Sparks Indonesia Protests Outside American Embassy
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said it will burn the Islamic holy book Wednesday, the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks. Local officials have denied a permit for the bonfire on the church's grounds, but the center - which made headlines last year by distributing T-shirts that said "Islam is of the Devil" - insists it will go… -
Scott Cairns: Who's to Blame for Human Suffering?
How can one believe in a loving God who allows the innocent to suffer? I've been asked this many times, and I've never been quick to answer. Subconsciously, I've probably asked much the same thing in the past. While I may not frame the matter this way now, it remains a useful question, if only because it reveals a premise I am no longer willing to buy -- the illusion of individual autonomy. The question reveals a keen ignorance regarding how intimately we are connected to one another -- both now and forever -- and more or less ignores the extreme freedom that the God appears to insist upon in… -
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: Top 10 Religious Environmental Saints
What do Saint Francis of Assisi and the New Orleans Saints have in common? Goggle the term "saints" to find out. An online search for "saints" first reveals the official site of the football team that won this year's Super Bowl and then a site for religious saints recognized by the Catholic Church. These sacred and secular saints do have one thing in common: Saint Francis, the patron saint of animals and the environment, and the New Orleans Saints share a strong connection to place. Today, stewardship of place has brought together diverse religious leaders -- Muslims, Jews, Christians -- who… -
Rizwan Ladha: Why Muslims Should Support Nuclear Weapons Disarmament
Sadly, though the current fixation of national debate is still the "Ground Zero Mosque," public opinion polls indicate that American sentiment towards the bomb has become ambivalent, and most recently, dangerously lukewarm -- something I discussed in my piece last week. But the issue can be refocused in a spiritual light and bring to the ongoing debate on nuclear weapons an angle and voice that were notably absent for the duration of the Cold War. An excellent interview was published September 1st in the U.S. News & World Report with the Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, an evangelical Christian and…
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Pope Gives Keys to Leo XIII's Lasting Contributions [2010-09-05]
5 Sep 2010 | 7:31 pmZenit.org ).- By understanding social questions as something to be dealt with positively and effectively through dialogue and mediation, Pope Leo XIII led a Church capable of dealing with the great is... -
Fidelity Isn't Easy, But Worth It [2010-09-05]
5 Sep 2010 | 7:31 pmZenit.org ).- It's not easy for couples to live out the demands of the Gospel in a society that pressures them to take the easy road, but God is generous with those who continually strive to answer hi... -
Archbishop Zimowski's Homily for Paul VI Institute Anniversary [2010-09-05]
5 Sep 2010 | 7:31 pmZenit.org ).- Here is the homily delivered today by Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, the president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, at the closing Mass for the four-day "Celebration... -
Pakistan's Christians and minorities struggle against discrimination and floods
5 Sep 2010 | 7:23 pmSome 20 million people have been affected by the worst flood in Pakistan’s recent history, while at least 2,000 people have died and 600,000 are completely cut off from outside help. Approximate... -
St. Francis church getting replacement for stolen statue
5 Sep 2010 | 5:53 pm< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } St. Francis, the statue, will soon rejoin his flock at St. Francis of Assisi National Catholic Church in southeast Denver, after donors pitched in the $3,500 to rep...
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AP: Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmThe bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values. -
San Francisco Chronicle: Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmThe outlook for the legal defense of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, grew cloudier Thursday as a state appellate court refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a federal judge's ruling overturning the measure. -
Boston Globe: Caritas to convert landmark
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmCaritas Christi Health Care yesterday said it plans to convert Landmark Medical Center of Woonsocket, R.I., into a Catholic hospital if its agreement to acquire the financially ailing 214-bed community hospital is approved by a Rhode Island judge and state regulators. -
Wash. Post: Abstinence program in China a milestone for U.S. evangelicals
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmIf all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. -
AP: Back from talks, Israel and Palestinian leaders face internal opposition to peace moves
2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pmIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talks at all.
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Real Live Preacher
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Spiritual Field Trips
2 Sep 2010 | 7:35 amDo you remember how incredibly tedious school was when you were a teenager? Do you recall those eternally long days and weeks and months and years of adult designed and enforced education? I remember spending a lot of time with my chin in my hand, staring at the wall while my teacher read things like Ode on a Grecian Urn to us. But sometimes we would get to school and discover there was a field trip, a blessed reprieve from the tedious repetition of class. We could have been going to a pencil factory for a lecture on #2 lead, but we didn’t care. It was wonderful if only because it broke up… -
Bearing one another's burdens
26 Aug 2010 | 9:20 amI want to make a simple request of those who read this piece. I am going to mention Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, but I will not offer an opinion on whether or not the Park 51 Community Center should be built. The debates on this subject are now generating more heat than light, I fear. Let’s not do that here. I would be interested in comments from you about something else, though. Having been a clergyman for many years, I can’t help but watch the drama of Park 51 unfold with a different perspective. Because I know what it’s like to carry someone else’s reputation. When I was a Baptist… -
Spiritual growth by subtraction
19 Aug 2010 | 6:15 amMy wife and I agreed that last Sunday had a Quaker feel to it, so we went to the San Antonio Quaker meeting for an hour of extravagant silence. I spent the first twenty minutes as I usually do – settling in and getting used to the quiet. But soon the question of the day became apparent. “How will I serve God now that I am no longer a pastor?” I’m working under the assumption that every Christian needs a ministry. I let go of one ministry, so I’ll need to find another. Right now I’m mowing the grass at Covenant Baptist Church. But I don’t know if that’s my official calling for… -
Gentle suggestions for doubting Christians
12 Aug 2010 | 6:03 amI’m a natural-born skeptic. I find it hard to believe in things unless I can be convinced of their reality with proof or at least very clear evidence. C.S. Lewis pegged me with his observation that some people will commit to nothing rather than end up being wrong about anything. If professor Lewis hadn’t died the year I was born, I might think he had been reading my diary. I was brought up in the Church and was happy to be counted among the faithful, but inevitable doubts surfaced about the time I got into high school. I kept my skeptical thoughts to myself, initially. My father was a… -
Fractured Family
5 Aug 2010 | 6:10 amA few years ago I had the idea that the people of our world divide easily into two groups: church people and non-church people. That point of view was understandable; I was a pastor and thoroughly steeped in the culture of American Churchianity. In those days I attended an unusual funeral. I was there because I knew Laura, the daughter of the deceased. Laura once told me that her mother was not a church person and had a bit of a wild side. Her mother’s closest friends had been her co-workers. They often met after work for drinks and fun. Many of them were present at the funeral, and they…
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Good Letters: The Image Blog
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When We Are Not Enough
3 Sep 2010 | 3:56 pmI sat down today with the intention of writing about something uplifting. This morning it was cool, so I went for a long walk with my son up to the campus of the college where I teach. Along the way, we saw families of deer, the college grounds crew weed-whacking around the foundations of the buildings, students walking groggily to their first classes of the semester. After a long sweltering summer, fall is creeping in. However, it was difficult for me to be present, focused on the beauty around me. The order of a new school year, which usually reassures and excites me, was overshadowed by… -
All At Once
2 Sep 2010 | 3:19 pmA week or so ago, I stood in a place that’s one of my favorites, looking out upon a view that I’ll always consider the best, and at a time of day that did the whole experience justice—though in truth, no time is a bad one to stand there. I went to this place because it’s likely I won’t get to stand there much longer (another story for another time)—and so wanted to imprint on my memory its every dimension—sights, sounds, smells, the touch and taste of its air on my skin and tongue. I wanted to “flood the senses,” as we’re told we can do, and capture all of what’s best… -
My Hometown...and Yours?
1 Sep 2010 | 3:06 pmDear Good Letters community, you know, sometimes you just have to phone it in. I’m sitting here on a hot sunny day in Jackson, Mississippi on vacation at my brother’s, and am just about to visit my hometown of Yazoo City for the first time in three years. I anticipate that there will be a lot to write about that encounter—it’s the first time my six-year-old son will have seen my childhood home, or that our family, together, will have strewn flowers over my father’s grave. We will drive into the Delta and my Yankee children will see rows of cotton lapping past the car for the very… -
My House as Allegory
31 Aug 2010 | 2:48 pmI think there probably are people who don’t interpret cracks in their bathroom ceilings as evidence either of cosmic doom or of personal inadequacy. I am not one of those people. My friend Amanda said as much to reassure me the other day, and then she laughed a bit at us both. I’d lain most of the previous night wide awake, unable to settle, fretting about my crumbling ceiling and my evaporating bank account and the circuitous trail of causality that had landed me there. I bought my first house about a year ago. It’s a 1940’s bungalow in a hip little neighborhood of Jackson, and I… -
How to Pray at Ground Zero
30 Aug 2010 | 2:58 pmI met Daisy Kahn and her husband Imam Feisal Rauf a few summers ago at The Chautauqua Institute, the western New York interfaith arts community. They have long been featured speakers there. That summer, my husband and I had a chance to sit and chat with them for about an hour about their creative initiatives for bridge-building between American Muslims and non-Muslims. In 1997, they had founded the New York-based American Society for Muslim Advancement....
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Christ and Pop Culture
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RetroPost: Why I Will Always Root for the Home Team
3 Sep 2010 | 4:38 amTweet Editor’s Note: RetroPost is a weekly repost of an older Christ and Pop Culture that has some relevance to current pop culture events or releases. This Week: As college football starts to ramp up, we share this meditation by Chase Livingston on what it means to be a fan. I grew up at the tail end of an empire. That empire was known as the Crimson Tide. As far as I knew, every living soul loved Alabama Football with the exception of terrorists and baby killers. Their number one fan just happened to be my old man. Once he traded our bunk beds for a blanket which had been custom made for… -
Podcast #91: I Was Born in a Small Town
2 Sep 2010 | 4:38 amTweet The podcast is back! This week we welcome special guest, Riley Byers who was nice enough to come dressed (in an FFA Jacket, Muleshoe football shirt, and cotton gin hat) to fit the part of general small town expert. We get an opportunity to talk to him about his unique hometown, and how religion, sports and popular culture help or hurt relationships in that context. We also explore the differences between living in a small town and living in a big city. Every week, Richard Clark and Ben Bartlett acknowledge and respond to the big issues in popular culture. We love feedback! If you’d… -
How Labeling People Makes Us Less Like Christ
1 Sep 2010 | 4:10 amTweet “What kind of person are you?” It was a seemingly innocent question, if a bit confusing. “Well…umm…I love Jesus and I am a husband and a father of two…” I responded a bit unsure of what he wanted. “No, no…I mean what category do you fit in?” I was totally lost in this conversation but the questioner persisted, “What kind of music do you listen to, that will tell all.” “Well I’ve really been enjoying Mumford and Sons lately,” I responded. “I’ve never heard of them, who else.” His… -
A Parable of the Two Philip Pullmans (Philips Pullman?)
31 Aug 2010 | 1:44 pmTweet At Books & Culture, Betty Smartt Carter’s “The Good Man Philip and the Scoundrel Pullman” is an amusing summary of Philip Pullman’s career, written as a semi-parody of the Grand Idea of his recent novel (The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ), in which twins named “Jesus” and “Christ” (so, one was Jewish and one was Greek, and one got a real name and one got a title?) get to embody the qualities that Philip Pullman does and doesn’t like, respectively, about the Jesus of the Bible. I haven’t read Pullman’s… -
Clear as Mud: The Gospel in Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally
30 Aug 2010 | 4:22 amTweet Among the political news of the weekend was the “Restoring Honor” rally headed up by Glenn Beck in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The event’s attendance has been cited as anywhere between 300,000 and 500,000 persons. It also included many known cultural personalities, from baseball’s Albert Pujols to Sarah Palin to Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. While much I will have to say about the rally contains criticisms, I should note that there were definite good elements present. The focus on honoring service and community should not be attacked simply because of other…
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Emergent Village
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2010 Emergent Village Theological Conversation Synchroblog [1]
29 Aug 2010 | 7:11 pm“Creating Liberated Spaces in a Post-Colonial World” During the week of August 30 through September 3, a group of people from a variety of perspectives will blog on the topic for this year’s Emergent Village Theological Conversation: “Creating Liberated Spaces in a Post-Colonial World”. The bloggers have been given the topic and asked to give their honest reaction. Bloggers include: – Jonathan Brink at jonathanbrink.com/blog – Annie Bullock at Marginal Theology marginaltheology.wordpress.com – Julie Clawson at onehandclapping julieclawson.com – Nelson Costa (in Portuguese… -
Reflections on God, Nine Months After Cara's Birth and Death [11]
21 Aug 2010 | 12:05 pmBy Laryn Kragt Bakker To say that our world has been altered since our daughter Caritas died nine months ago would be an understatement. I see that in physical details like our two-year old continuing to reenact with dolls a baby in her tummy who is “so sick” and ends up dying, but also in my daily thoughts and feelings and in the way I view God and the world around us. In a strange way, I ended up with more questions but my faith feels stronger on a fundamental level. A friend of mine coined the phrase “faith-infused agnostic” and that term has grown on me. It reminds me of Meister… -
Strange Awakenings: A Call to Faithful Vocation
21 Aug 2010 | 11:59 amby Mihee Kim-Kort Moments of irony hit me hard…I think it’s because I subconsciously hold up my worldview like a blanket wrapped around me, these expectations and preconceived notions woven together tightly in my brain, so when something outside of my usual assumptions happens to me, it knocks me out cold and stays with me for awhile. I grew up in a traditional Presbyterian home…culturally Korean on the inside, culturally attempting-to-be-American (whatever that means) on the outside. But, no doubt there was an undeniable hierarchy in the house, as well as at our church home. My father… -
Women and Men As Corn: Campesino Gathering in Nicaragua
21 Aug 2010 | 11:35 amby Natanael Disla In October of 2008, I was sent to Nicaragua by the Dominican Republic Baptist Seminary (where I study) to participate in a campesino gathering organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Community of Ecumenical Theological Education (CETELA). The purpose of these campesino gatherings is to visit environmental projects and take the principles back home. Corn is the main ingredient of the Mesoamerican diet. It is said that women and men came from corn seeds, growing straight out of the earth. Therefore, it is important to take care of the soil that produces corn, wheat, and… -
A Time To Reconstruct [95]
18 Jul 2010 | 7:10 amby Jonathan Brink Over the last decade, many of us who have participated in what some call “the conversation” have been engaging a deconstruction process of our faith. In many ways this leaving was liberation from an old story. The traditional way of seeing the story in the Gospel just didn’t work anymore. The conversation became a place to share our fears, our stories, and our liberation. One of the real, valid criticisms of this process is that much of the conversation was a deconstruction process. In other words, we were tearing down an old story but nothing new was offered to take…
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Episcopal Cafe
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Pope not 'fishing' on UK visitation
5 Sep 2010 | 4:55 pmArchbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols says that despite recent overtures to Anglicans through the instrument of an ordinariate, Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming trip to the UK isn't for tossing out lures. Nichols told Reuters that with respect to the pontiff's planned mid-month visit, Sometimes people want to say ‘oh, this is the initiative of the pope who is going fishing for Anglicans’. That is not true. He is responding to requests that he has received, and those requests we have to handle sensitively on both sides. I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense… -
Irish Catholic reform priests: small group, big dreams
5 Sep 2010 | 2:25 pmAn Anglican, a former Archbishop of Dublin, has expressed his support for the formation of a Catholic association of Irish priests. Reading about the desire of some priests to self-organize in order to promote a better view of Catholic clergy in Ireland, Walton Empey notes: Some years ago I was walking to the Mater Private Hospital to visit a good friend, Archbishop Joe Cassidy. On the way, I passed a group of teenagers who shouted, “Abused any children lately, Father?” On reaching the hospital I sat down for a few minutes to compose myself before my visit. I thought of all the fine… -
God may want a minute alone with Stephen Hawking
5 Sep 2010 | 11:25 amAs mentioned here Friday, famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has said in a new book that no God is necessary for the act of explaining creation. Hawking reportedly writes in his latest work (coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow) The Grand Design: Because there are laws such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself out of nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going. Besides setting our imaginations reeling, such words about the necessity of God bring to mind Napoleon's conversation with Pierre-Simon LaPlace, who, when… -
Sunday Social Hour
5 Sep 2010 | 9:31 amOne thing we have been able to figure out about Facebook's recent quirkiness: it's not "spamming" you when we invariably pipe in 5-6 new items at a time. We know this because whenever the feed updates, we get plenty of comments on the one or two items that DO get posted to your walls, but none of the rest. So just consider the wall update you do see to be a nudge to check the site for new posts, or the Facebook page for new notes. From the -
Anglicans report in from post-quake Christchurch
5 Sep 2010 | 4:29 amFollowing a 7.0 earthquake centered in New Zealand, this morning we have word from NZ-based blogger Bosco Peters: More than 500 buildings are damaged, more than 90 of those are in the central city area. Water tankers are in place. There is a state of emergency. The central city of Christchurch is closed and there is a curfew in place for those who live there. Thank you to all for thoughts and prayers for all affected here. It was certainly a very frightening experience – the strongest earthquake in a city here since 1931. The remarkable thing is that an earthquake of 7.1 on the Richter…
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The Lutheran
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The times are changing
31 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pmThese are challenging times for our nation and the world, certainly for the congregations, synods and churchwide organization of the ELCA. The great recession took a toll still being counted. The Lutheran saw the economic dagger heading toward the ELCA in February 2009 when a record number of congregations dropped their subscriptions. Then that figure was eclipsed this past January. It's only in the last few months that the situation appears to be stabilizing.This financial churn landed upon the synods and churchwide organization in full force this year. Mission support from congregations… -
Council trims churchwide budget by $4.2 million
31 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pmAfter a two-hour conference call meeting held in executive session, the ELCA Church Council voted Aug. 4 in open session to cut the churchwide 2010 current fund spending authorization by 6 percent, from $69.3 million to $65.1 million. There was no discussion of the vote in open session, but ELCA Treasurer Christina Jackson-Skelton reported that through the end of June 2010 mission support was down $3.7 million (a 15.2 percent reduction) from the same period in 2009. The executive session was used to discuss background information on finances and personnel, plus an organizational design… -
On assignment for God
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LCMS elects new leader, approves restructuring
31 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pmDelegates of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Convention elected a new president, approved a restructuring plan, voted to continue cooperative work with the ELCA, and requested that a church theology panel respond to the 2009 actions of the ELCA Churchwide Assembly related to human sexuality. Harrison At the July 10-17 meeting in Houston, Matthew C. Harrison, 48, executive director of LCMS World Relief and Human Care, was elected president on the first ballot, 643-527 over the incumbent, Gerald B. Kieschnick. Delegates voted to restructure the national offices from seven program… -
Cuba's tiny Lutheran church
31 Aug 2010 | 10:00 pmMembers of the Florida-Bahamas Synod nurture a connection.
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NYT > Religion and Belief
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For Ramadan, Mohammad Boota Plays Drums in Queens
4 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pmMohammad Boota, who is New York City’s foremost — and perhaps only — Ramadan drummer, is exploring new territory where he can awaken the faithful. -
During Training Camp, Minnesota Viking Stays Committed to Religious Faith
4 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pmMinnesota Vikings defensive back Husain Abdullah is a Muslim who fasts during Ramadan, despite the physical demands of the preseason. -
Evangelist Near Ground Zero Assails Islam and Mosque
4 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pmThe Internet evangelist Bill Keller, who called Islam a false faith, said he was creating a Christian center downtown as a counterweight to the Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. -
Raimon Panikkar, 91, Dies; Diverse Catholic Theologian
3 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pmMr. Panikkar was a Roman Catholic whose embrace of Hindu scriptures and Buddhism made him an influential voice for promoting dialogue between the world’s religions. -
America’s History of Fear
3 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pmHysteria about Islam is but a modern echo of past American worries about Catholics, Jews and others.
