“For some of us, our minds run faster than our senses can keep up; for others, our minds go slower than our bodies want to move,” said Rev. Kate Heichler, pastor of Christ the Healer. “This service welcomes children and adults to open their spirits to God’s love, however that is experienced.”
The top issue on everyone’s mind this month at the Islamic Center of Long Island was this: What could be done to stop planned congressional hearings on alleged hidden radicalism among American Muslims and mosques?
He was born with AIDS on Sept. 11, 1990, to a crack-addicted mother in a hospital in Washington. There were physical and developmental issues severe enough that his twin lived only 20 months. Deserted by his parents, he got his first break in 1993 when two men, intent on caring for a baby with serious physical needs, agreed to take him in.
The web is a atremor with news that Pope Benedict XVI has expressed qualified appreciation of social networks.
In reporting on a boycott that he helped organize, Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstrain makes a claim that I hope he can substantiate. It is
(Updated with a statement from the Presiding Bishop.) The Primates are meeting in Dublin this week. We are going to do our best not to gin up anxiety, or endow the event with a significance it does not possess. We will let you know who shows up, and who doesn’t, and what kind of news they make, if any.
This advertisement, in which a church reverses its declining membership and solves its budget problems by offering communion-goers Doritos and Pepsi Max, was yanked from the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest.
What concerns me most is that the effort to repeal Health Care Reform is a repudiation of all that is good in and about this country. Repealing it would say, in clear terms, “We don’t care about the least of our brothers and sisters. If you can’t make it on your own, go away.”
No saint claims to be a saint, and neither did you—except in so far as we are all called to be saints. In 1987 when Bob Browne was making the film Return to Hepu, you said to him: “I am just an earthen vessel with God’s treasure inside me.” No saint would claim more than that for herself. Yet here we have an icon of you with a halo.