Praying too fast? What’s your hurry?
June 6, 2010
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Can a culture that encourages scattershot and rapid-fire thinking embrace the paradox of slow prayer?
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Month: June 2010
Sunday Social Hour
June 6, 2010
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Facebook and Twitter continue to be popular ways of getting the word out about our posts, but a funny correlation seems to exist that those which get the most comments on Facebook tend to be the ones that generate the most comments on the blog itself, and it’s not always the ones you might expect.
These eyes won’t judge you
June 6, 2010
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A wordless three-month performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art says an awful lot about our hunger for contact.
Weep not
June 6, 2010
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The dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. Christ, the life and resurrection, meets him there. He is the Destroyer of death and of corruption. He is the One in whom we live and move and are.
The end of sex as we know it?
June 6, 2010
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It’s worth noting that many dystopian novels take place in societies where the connection between sex and procreation has been completely severed. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for example, sex is encouraged, even for the young, as a social activity, and children are manufactured in a process designed for efficiency and the propagation of traits that support a consumer society.
Why is ‘The Shack’ still selling?
June 5, 2010
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This book of theodicy, disguised as a number of other things, continues to dominate.
Falls Church priest says repeal DADT
June 5, 2010
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The Rev. Michael Pipkin, former military chaplain and current priest-in-charge at Falls Church Episcopal on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. He takes to task “some military
Saturday Collection June 5 2010
June 5, 2010
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This Saturday the news of the diverse ministries of the Episcopal Church in its congregations across the country brings us stories about the founding of a Hospice, congregations providing business incubator support for new “green” businesses, pet ministry, missionary work overseas, and civic redevelopment.
Al and Tipper and the greatest divorcing cohort ever
June 5, 2010
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Medical advances mean that today’s aging baby boomers are the first generation to find themselves approaching retirement age both healthy and with decades of living to go. With this longer time horizon, they may think it is worth searching for Mr. or Mrs. Right-for-the-rest-of-my-life, rather than settling with whoever was right for them forty years ago.
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