Author: Andrew Gerns

Creed versus chaos

David Brooks watched the new Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” and wonders about what really makes religion work.

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Dear Lulu

Lulu writes to God, asking “where did you come from?” Rowan Williams pens a response.

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Good Friday in prison

Episcopal News Service describes the ministry of prison chaplains and how the story and images of Holy Week speak to those incarcerated in the nation’s prisons.

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Towards a common date for Easter

This year Easter will be celebrated on the same day in both the Western and Eastern churches. The next time that happens will be 2017. Work continues to find a common date for Easter.

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Faith and politics round up

People of faith are speaking out on the burden the federal budget places on the poor; Liberty University gets more federal aid than the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but did not want their students to know that; the UK bans the export to the US of the drugs used for lethal injections.

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National Day of Silence

The National Day of Silence will be observed in more than 8,000 high school and colleges today and in many other places unofficially.

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News of the religious

A wedding spoof meets an unhappy Rector…the power of prayer…hoping lightning doesn’t strike twice…and the best seder in the USA.

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