Day: October 23, 2010

Loyal but unenthustiastic

Andrew Greeley has written in final book and in it he says that Chicago Catholics like the Pope, respect the church but don’t like being told how to conduct their sex lives and think the mass is deadly dull.

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A message from the dean of Virginia Theological Seminary

So dwell in our home that we may reflect the Spirit of the Father for whom every family is named. Bind us all into an holy fellowship; make all our worship, work and play witness faithfully to you; so that the Seminary may be a center from which light and life and love shall radiate to the four corners of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen — from the Seminary prayer

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A chapel for all

A hospital chapel at San Francisco General Hospital has been transformed into an open, comforting space for people of every faith…or of no faith.

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Leader of the Jerusalem community

As leader of the Jewish Christian communities and in particular the Jerusalem community, James was predominantly concerned with the self-definition and identity of Jesus’ followers. Like his brother Jesus, James saw his Jewish heritage. He did this by working for the restoration of the people of Israel following the direction set by Jesus’ ministry. James did not envision the followers of Jesus belonging to a new religion;

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Stumbling Credo

Verna Dozier is known for saying that every Christian should be able to tell the story of the faith in 10 minutes or less. Sometimes people call that out of us. Recently more than one friend has asked me some version of the question “What does the Crucifixion mean?

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