A study just published in Psychological Science shows that washing with soap and water makes people view unethical activities as more acceptable and reasonable than they would if they had not washed themselves.
More than 20 officers cordoned off the block-long church complex at 601 N. Tejon St., evicting its controversial pastor, the Rev. Donald Armstrong, who wandered the sidewalk in clerical garb, a copy of the warrant clutched in his right hand.
The 400 ex-combatants at the reintegration center we work with? They stayed up the whole night watching the election on DSTV and sport Obama hats and t-shirts. My favorite experience so far: the nation’s leading imam gripping my hand, looking me in the eye: “Thank you for electing Barack Obama.”
The Presiding Bishop noted that a November 26 report in The Times of London newspaper, that suggested the Joint Standing Committee had discussed plans to discipline the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone for its recent incursions into other provinces, was untrue. “The subject has not come up.”
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The Continental Congress and its president were thankful for the new nation, but beyond that they also sought forgiveness. Washington’s proclamation said the nation was to “beseech God to pardon our national and other transgressions.”
Dr. Arkin, a Christian who acknowledged the help of God and Jesus Christ in the preface to his book “Behavior-Based Robotics” (MIT Press, 1998), reasons that because rules like the Geneva Conventions are based on humane principles, building them into the machine’s mental architecture endows it with a kind of empathy.
Family Christian Stores, the nation’s largest Christian retailer with 301 stores nationwide, has seen sales of Advent-related items climb 35% in the past year.
Who – other than Anglicans (and only a minority of us) – cares about the structure of the Anglican Communion? Who else cares if the Episcopal Church is the sole Anglican body in the United States or if other provinces also function in the States? Fighting about Anglican jurisdictional boundaries is a red herring that distracts us from the much more difficult task of the Church’s real mission, i.e., engaging in creative, life-transforming ministry.
We are all of us judged every day. We are judged by the face that looks back at us from the bathroom mirror. We are judged by the faces of the people we love and by the faces and lives of our children and by our dreams. We are judged by the faces of the people we do not love. Each day finds us at the junction of many roads, and we are judged as much by the roads we have not taken as by the roads we have.