Wrestling with the death penalty
March 11, 2011
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A Lenten program at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Richmond, Va, that wrestles with questions of faith and the death penalty.
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Religion and politics in the news
March 11, 2011
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Maryland legislators withdraw same-sex marriage bill, Illinois abolishes the death penalty, and American Muslims say the scrutiny they receive at US border crossings is excessive.
Saving Jefferson’s Bible
March 11, 2011
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If he had a lap-top, it would have made his job easier, but perhaps less interesting.
Bishop Christopher’s mission
March 11, 2011
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More jaw-jaw means less war-war
March 11, 2011
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Bishop Pierre Whalon makes the case for increasing dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews and that an important tool to fight the tendency towards fundamentalism and radicalism is a faithful, critical reading of our holy texts.
Meyer named acting minister in Memorial Church
March 11, 2011
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An Episcopal priest has been named acting minister of Memorial Church at Harvard University. The Boston Globe reports:
Earthquake and Tsunamis strike Japan
March 11, 2011
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Breaking and updated. An 8.9 level earthquake struck northeast Honshu island, 230 miles northeast of Tokyo, at 2:49 pm local time Friday (12:49 am Eastern time), triggering tsunamis that struck Tokyo and other parts of Japan. Tsunami warnings and alerts have been issued across the Pacific.
Spirit’s work in the slaughterhouse
March 11, 2011
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Much that I’m seeing and hearing outside church makes me look back to celebrate (or worry at) what we’re doing in church on Sunday and in our faith communities. Could these unexpected prophetic voices hint at how the Spirit blows where she will to make all things new? And when we meet the Spirit outside church, is she challenging how we do church work
Show mercy
March 11, 2011
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Charity does not demand of us that we should not see the faults of others; we must in that case shut our eyes. But it commands us to avoid attending unnecessarily to them, and that we be not blind to the good, while we are so clear-sighted to the evil that exists. We must remember too God’s continual kindness to the most worthless creature, and think how many causes we have to think ill of ourselves
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