Washington Cathedral, a nighttime tour
August 9, 2007
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The Washington Post has a lovely interactive panorama of the Washington Cathedral, photographed on a recent summer night.
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Atheists vs. Detroit
August 9, 2007
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The City of Detroit Development Agency offered to pay half the cost of renovating St. John’s Episcopal Church. American Atheists took the city to court, saying that the grant violated the establishment clause of the Constitution–and as such, the city has withheld the payment to the church. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn ruled yesterday that while some of the uses of the money were unconstitutional, the churches were eligible to use the money to improve landscaping and facades.
Lambeth and Sydney
August 9, 2007
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So, in the Living Church, we have… The bishops of the Diocese of Sydney have told Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that they will not
Armstrong guilty
August 9, 2007
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The Colorado Springs Gazette reports: DENVER – An ecclesiastical court on Wednesday convicted the Rev. Donald Armstrong of stealing nearly $400,000 from his Colorado Springs
Do no harm?
August 9, 2007
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Last week, USA Today reported on the growing trend of doctors’ refusing to treat patients for religious reasons. The phenomenon goes beyond abortion and fetal tissue research and includes such matters as prescribing Viagra or performing in-vitro fertilization. At issue in many of these cases is gay discrimination
Dominican spirituality
August 9, 2007
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Dominican spirituality does not originate in high theory or in a particular spiritual wisdom embodied in clearly defined techniques. Effectively, Dominic’s vision was to respond to concrete pastoral needs. This, and a reliance on structures that he already knew, suggests a fundamental pragmatism and functionalism in his approach to the spiritual life.
After
August 9, 2007
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When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.
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