“Time has now come to slow down, sip Rooibos tea with my wife in the afternoon, watch cricket, and travel to visit children and grandchildren rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses,”
“This kind of small government libertarianism, small taxes, leave-me-alone-to-live-my-life ideology has more in common with Ayn Rand than it does with the Bible.”
Jesus himself was a refugee in Egypt when his parents had to flee from Herod for his safety. Jesus taught that one of the greatest commandments is to love our neighbors; these neighbors include foreigners.
As things are, we are liable to fall into a variety of traps. We may conduct our interchurch quarrels in a spirit that sends out a clear message of unwillingness to live with the other and be fed by them.
The new three-year loan from the IMF is intended to boost Haiti’s international reserves and help the central bank manage potential swings in the value of the local currency that could arise from large aid flows going into the country.
“We are called to be an inclusive communion . . . Without living that calling, we cannot be effective witnesses for justice and inclusiveness in our societies.”
Imagine a pope using social media to reach hundreds of millions of believers directly, rather than through a balky institution.
I must admit that as with all families there are times you cannot wait to see some members of the family and other times you may wish to avoid someone for one reason or another. There have been some significant disagreements in the family at times and passions are not held inside. As often as not folks figured ways to move ahead even as they might wonder about the maturity of another.
Identified both as apostle to the apostles and as a redeemed prostitute, perhaps no other biblical saint has been the subject of as much interpretation and misinterpretation as Mary of Magdala. Although her commemoration was added to the Western church calendar only in the Middle Ages, a number of patristic writers comment on the biblical texts about her.