This weeks review is the film version of M.L. Stedman’s international bestseller, ‘The Light Between Oceans,’ where trauma, love and redemption intertwine.
Beginning shortly after girls were admitted, new female students (in either the ninth or tenth grade) served as “bunnies,” an ostensible honor that required that they don Playboy costumes—leotards, bunny tails, and ears—and act as servers for the predominantly male student body and faculty who enjoyed casino games as the girls dispensed fake cigarettes and cigars. At least some students recalled that Dolly Howard, then Dean of Female Students, may have held onto the bunny costumes and accessories year-to-year and distributed them to the female students. Some recall that all new students wore the costumes, while others recall that girls were selected based on perceived attractiveness.
How were early communities listening for the word of the Lord when they heard the good news? Can their patterns and attitudes help us to listen more expectantly, and invite God to speak more boldly?
As many as 61 former St. George’s School students endured “a private hell” of systemic sexual abuse at the elite Episcopal prep school dating to the 1970s, said a report by independent investigator Martin F. Murphy.
Christ Church cathedral in partnership with an artist’s collective has commissioned several pieces of public art to highlight the cost and pervasiveness of gun violence
The Popping Collars crew comes down with Olympic fever and asks where does the spirit of human competition meet the Spirit of reconciliation?
“Many nations have been separated by imposed borders: Blackfoot/Blackfeet, Mohawk, Ojibwe, Sioux, Cree and others. We need to be good relatives and support our brothers and sisters at Standing Rock”
Religious leaders behind most serious threat to Mugabe rule in Zimbabwe in decades
What if I’m here not to act but to be acted upon by Jesus? What if the most important thing in my life is not what I make of it but what is made of me by God?
Tomorrow is a day of prayer for creation, a day marked first by the Orthodox Church in 1989 and now celebrated ecumenically. The Global Catholic