Day: February 10, 2009

Grace upon Grace in the city

How one small parish in the city center of Allentown, Pennsylvania, renovated their sanctuary into ”a beautiful, practical and liturgically useful” space that has also expanded the capacity of the parish to minister in their neighborhood.

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ABC addresses General Synod

‘What is the form of legislation best adapted to the good of the Church as a body where The Others do not simply go away and become invisible?’

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How the Church can help laid-off workers–like me

In January alone the American economy lost 598,000 jobs. The official unemployment number is 7.6% but that’s an artificially low figure; it doesn’t include those unemployed for over a year or contractors who have no work once a corporation has canceled their project. Some look at this figure and see a crisis needing swift and solid government intervention. Others see it as a system reaping the fruits of failed fiscal policy. Me, I look at it and I see—competition. I already got the call.

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Body and soul

The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected the theory that sickness was God’s way of getting even with sinners (John 9:1-3)

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