A Linen Shroud
March 16, 2008
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Painting by Taylor Harbison, essay by the Rev. Michael Sullivan
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Teens, computers and TV
March 16, 2008
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A recent study presented at American Heart Association’s 48th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention confirms what many parents already know:. Teens are spending a lot of time online and in front of the television.
Lincoln and the will of God
March 16, 2008
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When it comes to a larger and historically more important subject like Lincoln’s religion, the problems only ramify. We know that Lincoln attended a Baptist church with his parents as a boy in Kentucky and Indiana, because some church records survive. But from there his religious identity fragments in the conflicting testimony of those who knew him.
Talk of graves
March 16, 2008
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It seems to me that if we are going to make sense out of Jesus’ silence, if we claim any right to play at the empty tomb on Easter morning, we need to remember his companions in suffering. We cannot in good faith re-encounter the silence of Jesus in these latter days without encountering the silence of the victims who came after him.
Maundy Thursday
March 16, 2008
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Acquainted with grief
March 16, 2008
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The cross is the exhibition of Life being precisely that; more—as knowing itself to be precisely that, as experiencing itself as being precisely that. We are relieved—may one say?—from the burden of being naturally optimistic.
John Gray on Atheism’s proselytizers
March 15, 2008
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Maggi Dawn points us to a piece in the Guardian Review in which British author and philosopher John N. Gray examines the popularity of the “New Atheists” —same as the old atheists, he adds, examining the motivations of “secular fundamentalists.” He scrutinizes the positions of authors such as Dawkins and Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Martin Amis, Michel Onfray, Philip Pullman and other authors, and provides some historical perspective on what exactly tends to happen when religion is actively suppressed.
Church of Baseball, redux, rebuked
March 15, 2008
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Periodically throughout last year’s baseball season, we’d make note of various “Faith Night” events and reflections from the outfield. And now, preseason pundits have taken note yet again of the phenomenon. Murray Chass, writing in the New York Times, is quite frank about his feelings on the matter, and pulls no punches: “It’s time … for baseball’s constitution to dictate separation of church and baseball.”
San Joaquin Episcopalians greet bishop recommended for provisional role?
March 15, 2008
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Continuing Episcopalians filled Fresno’s Holy Family Church on March 14 for a get-acquainted meeting with Bishop Jerry Lamb in preparation for the March 29 special convention where they will be asked to confirm him as their provisional bishop.
Best friends
March 15, 2008
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This month’s Washingtonian has a feature with vignettes exploring the bonds of friendship between several pairs of best friends, among them retired Washington Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon and WAMU talk-show host Diane Rehm, who have been friends since meeting at church 40 years ago. When Rehm got word of an “Expanding Horizons for Women” adult-ed course at George Washington University in the 1970s, she nudged Dixon to join her.
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