BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

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The daily lectionary readings for today included this wonderful passage from the ancient book of Ecclesiasticus (part of the Apocyrpha, included in the Catholic Bible). I was struck by their application to today. Please draw your own conclusions…
[1] A wise magistrate educates his people, and the rule of an intelligent person is well [...]

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FROM JIM WALLIS, President of “SOJOURNERS”   some food for thought:
What is the meaning of “life”?
 
For too long abortion was seen as the only “life” issue in our culture and politics, but there is a growing conviction among Christians that poverty, disease, war, the health-care crisis, human trafficking, the death penalty, nuclear weapons, and the worldwide [...]

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From my friend and mentor, Bishop John S. Spong, one of the most moving and profound paragraphs I’ve ever read:
One of the false assumptions of some religious people is that they are in possession of the fullness of God’s truth.  They surround that illusion with the theological jargon of “the inerrancy of the Bible,” “the [...]

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\”TAKE HEART\”

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In the latest issue of The Christian Century, an article written by Chistian Smith, Michael Emerson, and Patricia Snell makes the following statement in bold type:  “Most American Christians give either nothing or very little to church or charities.”   The article goes on to report that in 1998, the amount of money given by the [...]

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After the last time…
When I finally turned from flight
And from somewhere came the strength to go back…
I rummaged the ruins,
A refugee picking through bombed belongings
For what surely was destroyed
And began again.
I began my new life
Thick and rough
With an alarm system on the heart
And an escape hatch in the head.
It was as spontaneous as a military [...]

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