Day: June 10, 2008

Church supper meatballs source of deadly E. coli bacteria

Meatballs served at a smorgasbord of the Salem Lutheran Church in Longville, Minn., were tainted with deadly E. coli bacteria, and Nebraska Beef was named as the culprit in lawsuits filed by the dead woman’s husband and by Ellie Wheeler, one of 17 other people who became ill. The company contends that the church women were negligent in preparation

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Terry Pratchett and God

“I suddenly knew that everything was okay, that what I was doing was right, and I didn’t know why,” Pratchett said. “It was a thought that all the right things are happening in the circumstances; and I thought, ‘Well, that’s all right then.’”

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Trial of a bishop continues

…today, nine judges from around the country are beginning to consider whether this … prelate, suspended from office in the fall, improperly concealed his brother John’s sexual abuse of a minor decades ago.

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Who has time to pray?

Prayer is a paradoxical activity. It requires leisure to be opened up by unplugging from the pressures of everyday demands. But it isn’t itself leisurely; it isn’t a pious version of stress management that temporarily recharges the batteries for a return to the fray. It is itself a kind of inner work.

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Glorious incarnation

Glorious is the Wise One Who allied and joined

Divinity with humanity,

one from the height and the other from the depth.

He mingled the natures like pigments

and an image came into being: the God-man.

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