A Vanity Fair reporter recently asked Scientology-affirming actress Juliette Lewis an affable, offhand question: Can a Scientologist celebrate Christmas? Her affable, offhand response:
“Perhaps true beauty is something that draws our attention at second glance, once the judgement of a first glance has realised its mistake.”
“Many clergy and lay leaders have a hunger to see the dilemmas of their physical assets in a new light, and to find creative and innovative ways to deal with this long-standing, sometimes paralyzing, issue.”
If we haven’t asked the question well enough by now, it is now past time to do so, and at all levels: How equipped is The Episcopal Church to partner with Hispanic communities and churches as well as Spanish-speaking leaders and entrepreneurs among the faithful?
“Ultimately, Santa is about me and the stuff I so desperately want. But Jesus is about something more: the grace I so desperately need.”
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Annually, 12 post-doctoral scholars from all over the world are awarded $10,000 each for the best doctoral dissertation or first post-doctoral book related to the topic “God and Spirituality.” King was recognized for his book, “Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers.”
To make ends meet, churches have laid off staff and frozen salaries, put off major capital projects and cut back on programs. At the same time, more of their congregation members and neighbors are asking for help with basic needs such as paying the rent and buying groceries.
Even if they maintain their ministry tasks, they are absent from worship and other spiritual formation activities. Their spiritual identity is based solely upon their responsibilities and no longer in their relationship with Christ.
Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan, began its camp in 1886 as a way to provide a “fresh air” respite for the city’s immigrants, many of them Armenian . . . The camp was an outreach of the Chapel of the Incarnation, now called Church of the Good Shepherd and located on 31st Street.