To go back to writing after all that education, it would have to be something big, something with the potential of Pokémon, the Japanese cartoon that was briefly banned by Saudi religious authorities. God would have been disappointed by that, he thought; God has 99 attributes, or names, including tolerance.
Ann Allen, a former rector’s warden at the parish, told the court that she learned of the abuse when Alexis was about 15. … Allen recalled how one of her teenage sons had told his parents that Alexis was “John’s woman.” When she apprised Charles Bennison that there might be “something going on” between the girl and his brother, Bennison “just kind of shrugged and said, ‘That’s the way it is,’ or, ‘That’s the kinds of things that are happening.’ ”
For some reason, the promise of free care, free healing, the free repair of our broken hearts is not something we leap at in this world. For some reason, the gracious love of God is not MAKING us be different. For some reason, the Love of Christ as poured out in a manger, at a table, and above all on a cross, is not FORCING us to be better.
Greetings, sons and daughters, in the name of the Lord who loved us, in peace. so great and abundant are the righteous acts of God toward you that I am exceedingly overjoyed, beyond measure, by our blessed and glorious spirits.
To my mind we are just living in a new age. We’re in a different sort of organisation. Now it’s exploring the possibilities of this different organisation that is now before us.
Peter Jensen,
Archbishop of the Diocese of Sydney
“Great Creator God, who desires that all creation live in harmony and peace. We dare to dream of a path to reconciliation.”
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
“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.’”
…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.
The Bishop of Cork in the Church of Ireland says new proposals designed to prevent the Anglican Communion falling apart will necessitate changes in the