Happy Purim
March 10, 2009
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Purim commemorates the Jewish people’s escape from total annihilation by the Persian Empire in the 4th century B.C., as told in the biblical Book of Esther.
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International Women’s Day and faith
March 10, 2009
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Religion Dispatches reports on a movement organized by Muslim women to ensure that Muslim family law recognizes and operationalizes the equality of women within the
Stem cell research and religion
March 10, 2009
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A 2008 Gallup poll finds moral objections to embryonic stem cell research are relatively slack. It shows that more than 6 in 10 Americans say that the research is moral, while just 3 in 10 say it’s morally wrong.
Barbara Andrews, bishop-elect in Canada
March 10, 2009
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The Anglican Churches of the Central Interior announces that after two ballots the delegates of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior elected The Rev.
World Water Day designated
March 10, 2009
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..water is central to our understanding of God’s relationship to the world, carrying the image of renewal, promise, and hope…
Church of Ireland grows by 50%
March 10, 2009
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The Church of Ireland, a progressive province of the Anglican Communion, has grown by 50% in the last few years.
The habit of kindness
March 10, 2009
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What was it that allowed me to hold this antipathy all these years? Then I hit upon it: All three of these people had, at one time, made me feel very small and unworthy. God has made us so vulnerable, particularly when we are young. An unkind word, a public humiliation, a thoughtless putdown can stay with us over the course of our lives.
Terrible simplicity
March 10, 2009
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The desert witnesses to the confrontation with God in terrible simplicity, it is the ‘primal scriptural symbol of the absence of all human aid and comfort’. Here, in the experience of waste and emptiness, of liberation through and from oppression, Christians have seen the foreshadowing of the redeeming work of God in Christ.
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