We had a beautiful Taize service in my parish the other night. The reflection was offered by my friend Lynn, the parish’s Faith Formation Supervisor. The readings she selected to accompany the music focused on prayer and included today’s Gospel reading, the passage in Luke’s Gospel where Jesus tells the parable of the persistent widow
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Persistent Listening
Credo: Jay Bhandari Washington Examiner … the festival of lights celebrating the triumph of good over evil, shared by people of faiths including Hinduism , Sikhism and Jainism.
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Credo: Jay Bhandari – Washington Examiner
Thursday night I had the pleasure of attending the Make a Difference concert in San Jose, CA. I've looked forward to this concert for weeks and got to go with two of my best friends from church. (Waving at you, Trish and Deb!) What a night! Standing there and watching Toby Mac, Third Day and Michael W
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Weekend Devo — We Rocked the House
In ‘Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited,’ photographer Rick Nahmias finds in marginalized communities, from deaf Mormons to a transgender choir, stories of spirituality and dignity.
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Finding the faith that links disparate Californians
The recent merger of Mount Washington Baptist Church and the Greater New Home Baptist Church brought together two unlikely demographics. Predominantly white Mount Washington faced a dwindling membership. Greater New Home, a mostly black church, was running out of space.
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Churches find common ground in merger
In stillness I immerse myself in the endless stream of being in which I live, but which is usually concealed under the noisy chatter of daily consciousness. In stillness, on rare occasions, the division between me and not me has dissolved, and there is no border between them.
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In stillness, noisy boundaries disappear
Before we discuss a new story about problems at President Obama’s faith-based office, a bit of context. While funding of religious non-profits did not begin with President Bush, he really took that ball and ran with it. he created the first White House office of Faith-based Initiatives.
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Obama’s faith-based office criticized
In my last post , I went over the idea that “[After baptism] all our sins past are forgiving us, we are now covered by grace so that when we do sin we are forgiven.” It became quite clear that within Armstrongism, grace and forgiveness are earned through a partial keeping of the Old Covenant law. This is not what you’ll read in the literature, but in practice it becomes obvious. This time I would like to move forward and address the idea that law-keeping = loving Jesus
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If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments
I’m not a sailor, but when I lived in Hong Kong some years ago, I did go sailing often enough with friends who had a boat to learn what tacking is. Tacking refers to a series of zig zag movements that allow forward progress of the boat along the water where one would not be able to sail directly into the wind
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“Tacking” Toward the Truth
By comparison with Christianity, coverage of other world faiths is static and limited. Coverage of Islam in textbooks is similar to Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism in its focus on early origins rather than change over time.
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Religious Bias in US Textbooks?