Oprahfied spirituality
I have my doubts, too: doubts that naturally arise when, say, her magazine hawks both the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and $185 beach blankets without a smidgen of irony.
I have my doubts, too: doubts that naturally arise when, say, her magazine hawks both the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and $185 beach blankets without a smidgen of irony.
Here is an Episcopal Café companion to the royal wedding: a collection of the useful, the informative and the trivial.
As anticipation builds for the William-and-Kate wedding on April 29, the Church of England has published special prayers.
Mom and dad, not Puffy or Pat Robertson, matter most to their politics. Some 60% cite parents as the influence on their own politics.
Christ says: No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet. I’m saying: “I’m the Messiah.” I’m saying: “I am God incarnate.”
“Through this year’s batch of films, human identities interface with technology, are lost, confused, mixed up between surface and depth, public and private, between who we are by ourselves and who we are in relation to others.”
There’ve been plenty of anthems celebrating the self. Lady Gaga is only the latest in a string of persons and personas to propound the doctrine
Believing that God wants you to be famous actually improves your chances of being famous. What’s helping these stars is not so much religion as belief—specifically, the belief that God favors their own personal, temporal success over that of almost everyone else.
This advertisement, in which a church reverses its declining membership and solves its budget problems by offering communion-goers Doritos and Pepsi Max, was yanked from the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest.