Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial ground in Kent where around a hundred people were laid to rest. . . Experts have found hardly any grave goods and since most of the bodies are lying east/west they are believed to be mainly Christian.
About twenty miles outside of Green Bay and over a mile from even the smallest town, a tiny sign at a remote intersection points visitors toward Chapel Drive, site of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, site of the only approved site of a Marian apparition in the U.S.
Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense.
Catholics are more supportive of legal recognitions of same-sex relationships than members of any other Christian tradition and Americans overall. Nearly three-quarters of Catholics favor either allowing gay and lesbian people to marry (43%) or allowing them to form civil unions (31%).
How we worship and work together as a church is, indeed, the expression of what we believe – the traditional lex orandi, lex credendi has always been what unites Anglicans.
I’m thinking that Lent is a time to stretch our faith — to live with these familiar stories, which we’ve called Good News. Take a break from questions about what may be “factual” or accurate and ask “What if it’s all true?”
In Armenian the word that we translate as “worship” is yergeerbakoutyoun. Repeated often in the Divine Liturgy, the word means literally “kissing the ground.” It says a lot about the Armenian understanding of what we do in church. The Armenian Church, like all the ancient Christian churches, worships not only in words,