Suppose it had to happen in America at some point, and we’d be a little surprised if it hasn’t already, but one jeweler has found an eschatological marketing niche.
The problem, it would seem, is not so much homosexuality as it is the influence of the West – the perception of culture wars, in effect.
As God wishes us to be good, because He is good, none of His judgments ought to displease us. For not to give Him thanks in all things, what else is it but to blame Him in some degree. Man’s folly too often dares to murmur against his Creator, not only in time of want, but also in time of plenty, so that, when something is not supplied, he complains, and when certain things are in abundance he is ungrateful.
The Catholic League and the American Atheists are duking it out on either side of the Lincoln Tunnel this year.
This week’s Saturday collection features a parish pet, a personal account of one parish’s involvement in sheltering homeless families, and another parish’s 100 year observance of yearly tradition.
A new study done by a group associated with the University of Virginia correlates marriage with poverty levels in the U.S. What the study finds
Fred Phelps’ disciples from Westboro Baptist have announced their intention to picket Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral this weekend. Steve Shriffen suggests that there should be legal distinction drawn between speech made in the public arena and speech that is effectively a private attack:
Jesus draws people by surprise because his stories are of characters his listeners wouldn’t want to hear about. But my hunch as a writer, storyteller, and ‘theater director’ in these improvisations I’ve seen is that Jesus crafted stories about characters he liked.
God’s future is not that he will be as he was and is, but that he is on the move and coming towards the world. God’s Being is in his coming, not in his becoming. If it were in his becoming, then it would also be in his passing away.
UPDATE: 12/11
The British ambassador to the Vatican warned that Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to Anglican opponents of female priests to convert en masse to Catholicism was so inflammatory that it might lead to discrimination and even violence against Catholics in Britain, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.