Ash Wednesday videos
March 9, 2011
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Ash Wednesday goes Web 2.0: Who would have thought that so many folks would be making Ash Wednesday videos?
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Christians & Muslims clash in Cairo
March 9, 2011
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At least one Christian man was killed and about 100 others wounded in the fighting, according to an Egyptian hospital official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release the information.
Tutu inspires in San Francisco
March 9, 2011
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“All those who strut across the stage of the world as if they were invincible, they, too, without fail, will kiss the dust and become the flotsam and jetsam of history. A Berlin Wall tumbles down. Apartheid in South Africa gives way to democracy. The horrid, oppressive [Hosni] Mubarak steps down [in Egypt]. No situation could ever be described as hopeless.”
Ash Wednesday is today
March 9, 2011
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I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.
Why evangelicals hate Jesus?
March 9, 2011
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Jesus exhorted humans to be loving, peaceful, and non-violent. And yet Evangelicals are the group of Americans most supportive of easy-access weaponry, little-to-no regulation of handgun and semi-automatic gun ownership, not to mention the violent military invasion of various countries around the world.
What does “humanism” have to teach the church?
March 9, 2011
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“a few key insights. First, the unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind, where many of the most impressive feats of thinking take place. Second, emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to things and are the basis of reason. Finally, we are not individuals who form relationships. We are social animals”
Ash Wednesday in the streets
March 9, 2011
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The afternoon looked like rain; the skies were grey, and trembling. “Hey, did you know today is Ash Wednesday?” a white hipster shouted into his phone, as I led a procession of fifteen men and women dressed in black cassocks and carrying smoking thuribles into a plaza by the subway near my home in San Francisco’s Mission District. “Yeah, no shit.”
Giving life to ashes
March 9, 2011
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Time is measured by a threefold division, past, present, and future. In all three we receive the munificence of the Lord. If you consider the present, it is through Him that you live; if the future, your hope that your expectations might be fulfilled in founded on Him; if the past, you realize that you did not even exist before He made you. Your very birth you have received as a benefit from Him;
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