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Year: 2011

Grave expressions in Britain

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

Traditionalists argue that graveyards are places of peace and contemplation and those who visit to lay flowers on Mum’s grave shouldn’t have to negotiate their way past piles of soft toys or be disturbed by the cacophony of competing wind-chimes. A public graveyard cannot ‘allow’ the unbridled shriek of competitive grief, because it’s a shared space and your way of mourning may detract from someone else’s. There has to be consideration for others.

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Bible talks about sex, a lot

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

Since the Bible never offers anything like a straightforward set of teachings about marriage, desire, or God’s perspective on the human body, the only way to pretend that it does is to refuse to read it. If we do take the time to read the Bible, we are likely to discover that the biblical writers do not agree with us, whatever version of sexual morality we are seeking to promote.

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Why believe Scientology?

February 10, 2011 2 Comments

In the current edition of The New Yorker Lawrence Wright reports on the Church of Scientology. Tuesday, Terry Gross interviewed Wright on Fresh Air. Wright

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Larry Summers defends childhood

February 10, 2011 3 Comments

How many of us asked the deepest philosophical questions of our lives when we were children, and shelved them once we were adults and didn’t have them time for them? And how many of us have anesthetized ourselves against the pain of seeing injustice of the world, injustice that even as children when we were well aware of?

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The gift of mercy

February 10, 2011 No Comments

People think they can confine lack of forgiveness to a particular event, a special case. You cannot, not in the end. Forgiveness is total. There can be no exceptions. No matter how justified the case, lack of forgiveness is never justified. And you cannot get away with it. . . . If we do not forgive, the evil remains in us and can ultimately destroy us. When we are unforgiving we must pray continually for the gift of mercy

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Romania cracks down on witches

February 9, 2011 1 Comment

There’s more bad news in the cards for Romania’s beleaguered witches. A month after Romanian authorities began taxing them for their trade, the country’s soothsayers and fortune tellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don’t come true.

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Students act creatively for the MDGs

February 9, 2011 No Comments

Max Bevan, a lifelong Episcopalian from New Jersey, and Kiyo Egashira of Washington state took a development economics class and read Sachs’ book “The End of Poverty” while studying abroad last semester. They began talking about how much Sachs’ book influenced their perception of the “poverty trap” in Africa and how “the way he approached the solution seemed feasible,” Bevan recalled.

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General Seminary to sell property to raise funds

February 9, 2011 No Comments

After being battered by the financial downturn and declining enrollment, the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea is attempting a financial turnaround, aiming to eliminate $41 million of debt and to rejuvenate its depleted endowment fund.

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Leveraging Facebook for Churches

February 9, 2011 No Comments

“we looked at why it’s important for churches to leverage the power of Facebook’s news feed. There was a lot to discuss and think about, but now that you’ve come to terms with its importance, let’s dive right into ways you can start getting the most out of the news feed.”

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