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Day: October 9, 2010

Le Pichon seeks the deep connections between faith and reason

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Xavier Le Pichon’s primary work has been in the area of Plate Tectonics. A French scientist, he is very well known in geological circles for his comprehensive mode of plate tectonics. He’s won numerous awards for his scientific research. And he lives in an intentional community that cares for the mentally ill because of his faith. In an interview recently he talks about the experience of his deep spirituality combined with his sense of scientific insight into the big questions of the Universe.

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Saturday Collection 10/09/2010

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This week’s Saturday Collection features innovative outreach fundraising, a congregation that discovered that it has an architectural treasure, another one celebrating an important milestone and a congregation in California that has invested enough in green energy technology that its energy systems are going to be a source of income for the congregation.

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Archbishop lives the food bank diet’

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Colin Johnson, Archbishop of the Diocese of Toronto decided to try living on the sorts of food found in the typical Toronto food bank both as a spiritual exercise and as a way of understanding better what it was like to live off the sorts of resources available to a family who have no where else to turn.

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The life cycle of the parish budget

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Church budgets are a bit different than the typical business’ budget and people highly skilled in business may not always be aware of the differences. And clergy and lay professionals who have worked in the church their whole careers may not be aware of the differences either.

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The real thing

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I remember the wild northern shores from which these stories come; gray rocks; dark little forests; restless, changeful seas. There is no introduction to that land, no guide book, no cicerone. Sailing over the sombre blue of waves that never quite forget the fierce cold of winter, you approach the sheer and silent coast, tranquil, reserved, impassive alike to roaring wind and caressing sunlight.

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