Year: 2008

Jesus spoke Greek

Jesus responded to Greek speaking people in their own language. Jesus met people where they were. Jesus didn’t force people to conform to his smaller linguistic comfort zone of Aramaic. He learnt the lingua franca. Jesus doesn’t use his knowledge of Greek to proselytize. He uses Greek to enter the world of others so as to consider and respond to their requests.

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A vision of living brightness

As an old woman, Hildegard described very clearly the two different ways in which her visions presented themselves to her, in a letter to Guibert of Gembloux. (The letter caused Guibert to leave everything he was doing and become her secretary for the last few years of her life, following the death of Volmar.)

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God’s will and the presidency

If you were the spiritual adviser to the next president, what would you advise him on how to discern and implement God’s will in the execution of his duties? Katie Sherrod of Fort Worth, TX answers in the Dallas Morning News.

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It’s the end of the world as we know it?

Anxiously scanning the Business section of The New York Times on Sunday, I came across … “For those who need a little bit of levity on a tense day, we present some mood music.” If you clicked on the video box below, a song began to play, its lyrics flashing on the screen in various colors: REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.”

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Interfaith group pleads for help after Ike and Gustav

… acts of faith and mercy alone, no matter how profound, cannot provide everything needed for a sustainable recovery. Gulf Coast families deserve a federal government that recognizes their needs by rebuilding their communities, supporting basic human rights of all communities, addressing poverty and displacement, and confronting coastal erosion.

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