YouTube, WeTube and ?
December 26, 2007
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If you missed it, the Queen’s Christmas message is available at the Royal Channel on YouTube, also known as WeTube. YouTube has also become a
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Pay that latte forward
December 26, 2007
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People like to give. Example: At the Starbucks on 116th Street NE in Marysville, Washington, a chain of more than 350 people bought coffee for
Mystery worshippers coming to a church near you
December 26, 2007
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Christian Research (UK) wants non-Christians to assess the churches because, in common with increasing numbers of church leaders, the organisation wishes to find out what does and does not work for the reluctant churchgoer. Christian Research is working with ShipofFools to promote the project.
People ignore the noble aims of festivals
December 26, 2007
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(Updated) The movement of the Muslim lunar calendar placed the festival of Eid al Adha (??? ??????) in the week before Christmas this year. In
Joseph’s dream
December 26, 2007
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Dreams are a form of chaos … and one would think that Joseph’s dream would reflect in some distorted and frightening way the chaos of his own life—a young woman pregnant, and not by him; the fear of public disgrace; a need to keep everything quiet; the urge to hide his shame in a darkened room, devising paltry mousetraps to ward off the Evil One. And yet, in the midst of chaos comes this startling dream.
A brief history of Christmas
December 25, 2007
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Christmas famously “comes but once a year.” In fact, however, it comes twice. The Christmas of the Nativity, the manger and Christ child, the wise
Crocodile outside stable?
December 25, 2007
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What animals were there when baby Jesus was born?
Matthew, age six: “There were sheep, horses and a crocodile outside the stable.” Ruby, age six: “At his birth there were oxens, a donkey, three camels, three birds – all white – and three cats, all black.”
Top 10 carols
December 25, 2007
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without singing a few carols, but what are the origins of the familiar words and tunes we sing every year? Read
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Sermon
December 25, 2007
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Rowan Williams draws on the writings of St. John of the Cross in his Christmas sermon: And the angels sing at the wedding in Bethlehem, the marriage of heaven and earth, where, in the haunting final stanza of the great poetic sequence, humanity senses the joy of God himself, and the only one in the scene who is weeping is the child, the child who is God in the flesh:
Christmas Day
December 24, 2007
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So hallowed and so gracious is the time—these lines from the first scene of Hamlet in a sense say it all. We tend to think of time as progression, as moment following moment, day following day, in relentless flow, the kind of time a clock or calendar can measure. But we experience time also as depth, as having quality as well as quantity—a good time, a dangerous time, an auspicious time, a time we mark not by its duration but by its content.
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