The Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides identifies 12 fruits and vegetables with the highest levels of pesticide residues and the 15 with the lowest levels. I made this cheat-sheet card to carry in my purse.
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Which Foods to Buy: Organic Cheat-Sheet
Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction Big Think “Whether it's Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism , they've all had their excesses, but nonetheless, there's something afoot in that kind of thinking, … Where Do Characters Come From
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Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction – Big Think
A clip from Richard Dawkins’ Lecture at UC Berkeley: bit.ly – via www.AtheistMedia.com
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Richard Dawkins: If Science Worked Like Religion
As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people in the world. There are people who think that there are only two kinds of people in the world and people who do not think that there are only two kinds of people in the world.
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Church of the New York Times (updated)
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter (HarperOne, 388 pages, $26.99), by Stephen Prothero: Christianity, Islam and Judaism all insist that God is One. So prospective readers may think that Stephen Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University, must be proclaiming polytheism in a book titled, God Is Not One.
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BOOK REVIEW: Prothero rebuts idea all gods are alike in ‘God Is Not One’
Reuters is definitely my favorite source for international religious news. But this story out of Srinagar, India, could use some help. Headlined “ Visitors banned from Kashmir’s Jesus shrine ,” it tells about a local Muslim fight over a shrine.
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Resurrection? Ascension? What?
Last Sunday at children’s church I taught about ants, based on on Proverbs 6:6. Here is my lesson plan, based on Heart of Wisdom 4-step plan: Step 1 Excite: Cause an Interest Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! (Proverbs 6:6) Who wrote this verse? (King Solomon) What does it mean?
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Go to the Ant Lesson Plan
Isn’t it amazing that Americans worry more about the gas we put in our cars than the food we put in our bodies? I’ve been getting healthy with a very simple health plan: I eat God’s food instead of man’s food. You can read Dr.
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Top 12 Health Benefits of Juicing
What mother doesn’t want to become kinder, gentler, and more loving? Remember how Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz was searching for a way home and finally found out she had the magic slippers that he had on the whole time? You have the answer inside you now.
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How to Become a Kinder, Gentler Mother
This Saturday my friends and I participated in a Cyber Banquet (virtually) hosted by artists Lisa Link and Io Palmer.
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Chicago Does Jibaritos a Cyber Banquet in East Rogers Park
The Boys at Mi Ranchito , 2010 Jacob Cruzen and Dan Solberg are taking Saint Louis by storm with their exhibition Solberg/Cruzen, opening tomorrow night at the Craig Elmer Modern.
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Solberg/Cruzen at the Craig Elmer Modern
el es frida kahlo is currently on view in the New Media Room at the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, MO. el es frida kahlo , 2007-present Frida Kahlo played with the identity that she wanted to project and the identity that was placed on her by others.
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el es frida kahlo at the gallery
India has never been short of religions: although 80 per cent Hindu, it also incorporates Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as hundreds of lesser known faiths.
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Ravidassia sect sends shockwaves across world’s Sikh community (Times Online)
Recently Latina Role Model was featured on TikiTiki Blog: stories with cultura, color and sabor, in a post by Carrie Ferguson Weir called Smart Latina vs. Sexy Latina . Carrie asked readers: So, has your Smart Latina run up against the Sexy Latina? What do you see when you watch Maya’s video?
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Latina Women Respond
excerpt from article in The Jewish Chronicle by Justin Jacobs Walk into the Saint Vincent College art gallery in Latrobe and the first thing you’ll see is a wall covered in brightly colored women’s panties. Not the most common item on display at this small, staunchly Catholic institution, but peek a little closer — each pair is adorned with Hebrew text: shomer negia (don’t touch).
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Just For Jewish Girls
Kinzer’s paper wraps up with a description of Messianic Jewish theology as a protest against the boundary drawn by mainstream Judaism against the deity of Y eshua….Yet, the Nicene Creed set about to deny some things we too, as Messianic Jews, would want to deny: … What will surprise many readers is to know that Judaism, not only in the Second Temple period, but also throughout the Middle Ages, deals with a controversy that i s parallel to that of Nicaea….
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The Nicene Creed and MJ
Hashivenu Messianic Judaism is open-minded, but faithful; contemporary, but traditional;…Hashivenu is a renewal movement within Messianic Judaism (see hashivenu. org)….I think if many of our critics from within Messianic Judaism and related groups came, they would be surprised to find a great deal of agreement with the ideas we d iscuss….If you care about Jewish-Christian relations, what’s going on in the future of Jewish Yeshua-faith, and the observant, traditional side of Messianic Judaism, w e are a large part of it….
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Live-blogging Hashivenu 2010
It may seem strange to be told to look at Hebrew idioms or aspects of Judaism, because for years, or even decades, it has been understood that our English New Testament i s based on Greek manuscripts.
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Understanding the difficult words of Jesus: New insights from a Hebraic perspective
In your spare time this weekend, consider taking a few minutes to read Devin Friedman’s lengthy GQ piece that gives the background leading up to the shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller. Scott Roeder was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller. Tiller was an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Kansas where he was handing out bulletins to people before he was shot on May 31, 2009.
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Before the abortion doctor’s killing
I will be attending the Blissdom conference Feb 4-6 in Nashville. I made this Blissdom pocket planner for the Blissdom ladies. You can easily folded into quarters and slipped into a jeans pocket. Extra space is provided for your personal notes
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Blissdom Pocket Planner
mi prima… Indie-soul songstress Eleanor Dubinsky combines sultry, jazzy vocals with global pop to create hot original music with international appeal. Her music fuses French pop, canto nuevo and new American soul, using multiple languages and global rhythms to tell a story that is personal and universally accessible
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Some may never be broken Rabbi Mark Levin of Congregation Beth Torah, Overland Park: Judaism contains a vast literature clarifying “the reason for the commandments” (ta’amei hamitzvot). Theoretically, some would say, all of the biblical commandments are equally important and therefore no transgression is greater than another
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Is there any sin greater than any others?
Latina Role Model is on Tiki Tiki: Stories with Cultura, Color and Sabor, thanks to post by Carrie Ferguson Weir entitled Smart Latina vs Sexy Latina . Check out the post and be sure to leave your responses!
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Latina Role Model on Tiki Tiki
… hristianity) or about structuring a modern Jewish movement for Yeshua which has its origins in first century Messianic Judaism?…–Has Messianic Judaism transcended its origins in Christian missions to the Jews?…–Is Messianic Judaism primarily about reconstructing 1st century practices of faith in Yeshua (a la the book of Acts, what many scholars call early Jewish C…–Is Walter Riggans right that Messianic Judaism must develop more into the Jewish hermeneutical models (ways of interpreting Bible texts)…
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Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology, ch 2
Telegraph.co.uk Google suggests Islam is nothing Register If you type “Judaism is,” ” Hinduism is,” or “Buddhism is,” Google also provides a long list of suggestions – some with a negative bent, some not. … 'Islam Is': Google Glitch, or Religious Favoritism?
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Google suggests Islam is nothing – Register
Islam Is … Blocked By 'Bug' In Google Suggest Search Engine Land (blog) But replace Islam with a number of other major religions — such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism , etc. — and Google Suggest shows a variety of terms, … Google is being sensitive ScienceBlogs (blog) Is Google Suggest biased
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Islam Is … Blocked By ‘Bug’ In Google Suggest – Search Engine Land (blog)
Kinzer is the foremost theologian amongst Torah-observant Messianic Jews, advocating a ‘p … ost-missionary’ relationship between the Gentile ekklesia and Judaism, in which the Jewish ekklesia exists within Judaism….The ‘rabbi’ of Zera Avraham is none other than Mark Kinzer: author of Post-missionary Messianic Judaism:…Whilst it can be argued that Messianic Jews who believe in Yeshua form part of the Protestant continuum, it seems that the Zera Avraham brand of Messianic Judaism i…
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No to Protestant Christianity; Yes to Jesuit Spirituality