On Saturday I shared a couple of reflections on the ELF in Hungary as related to preaching. Here are a few more to ponder together: 3. Watch your language for second language listeners. In some ways I’d expect this to be obvious, but obviously it wasn’t for one or two speakers. When there are people in the audience that are listening in their second language, watch yours
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More Reflections on the European Leadership Forum (ELF)
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Over the past week Terry’s been pursuing the question: what is the mainstream press saying about where Judge Sonia Sotomayor falls in the spectrum of Catholic practice? Well, New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein has been researching this for all of the curious minds who read that newspaper (not to mention GR readers), and here’s what she has found out: Four of the Catholics on the court are reported to be committed attenders of Mass, and they make up the court’s solid conservative bloc — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr
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Sotomayor? Probably a “majority” Catholic
After losing Baba Sadhu Singh ji from Nanaksar few days back,it was another sad day for Sikh community after the boat which was taking 13 people in Harike Pattan during ‘jal parvah’ of baba ji’s remains,sunk and all fell into the water body. As per latest reports,out of 13 people, 10 were taken out and three are still missing. Among the missing one’s are famous ragi, bhai zorawar singh ji (ludhiana) and bhai gurcharan singh ji who is son of another renowed ragi bhai harbans singh ji jagadhari and one more baba ji’s sewak harjinder singh
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Ragi Bhai Zorawar Singh & 2 others Missing in Boat Accident
31 May 2009, 1810 hrs IST, PTI KUALA LUMPUR: An ethnic Indian family is fighting with Islamic authorities in Malaysia for claiming the body of a Sikh art director who allegedly converted to Islam 17 years ago. The family of Mohan Singh, 41, who died last week, wants to cremate the body according to Sikh rites while the Islamic authorities want to bury him according to Muslim rituals. Currently, Singh’s body is in the hospital, family lawyer Rajesh Kumar said.
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Family fights for right to cremate ‘converted’ Malaysian-Sikh
Published by: Noor Khan Sun, 31 May 2009 Jalandhar, May 31 : A day after Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s assurance to Dera Sachkhand to review cases against protesters who indulged in violence after the killing of a sect leader in Vienna, a group of social and religious leaders today threatened an agitation if the cases were withdrawn. The group had a meeting at local Paragpur Gurudwara and constituted a 101-member committee to take up its issues with the State Government
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Sikhs to agitate if cases against protestors are withdrawn
Today the Catholic Church celebrates Pentecost Sunday, the day on which we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples, an event generally thought of as the event that marks the birth of the Church. What that descent looked like is not something we can speak about with certainty. Acts describes a sudden “noise like a strong driving wind” followed by what appeared to the disciples as “tongues of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.” John says simply that Jesus breathed on the disciples and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” However it happened, we know that the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit and, through the power of that Spirit, able to do marvelous things, far more (in the word of Ephesians) that they could ask for or imagine
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Veni, Sancte Spiritus
The Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against Connecticut’s Office of State Ethics seeking to enjoin the Office from taking action to force the Diocese to register with the state as a lobbyist. Catholic Online reports that the state ethics office wrote the Diocese raising questions after the Diocese took part in a rally in March opposing Raised Bill 1098 that would have forced reorganization of financial oversight in Catholic parishes (see prior posting ). The state also questioned a posting on the Diocese’s website urging its members to oppose another bill relating to same-sex marriage
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Connecticut Diocese Sues To Avoid Registration As Lobbyist
Sometimes I am prone to forgetting that everything is terrible, and in those moments, if I am brave enough to re-embrace reality, I turn to Everything is Terrible to remind me of the world’s vast stores of the terrible. Today, a visit to those edifying climes produced a palpable hit only a few posts in: a bracing message from no less than the guy who portrayed TV’s Spock and some English-sounding guy that Y2K would likely spell ruin for everything we labeled civilization circa 1999
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The Unexamined Life Is Not for Me
In Netherland v. City of Zachary, Louisiana , (MD LA, May 27, 2009), in a case on remand from the 5th Circuit (see prior posting ), a Louisiana federal district court held that a city’s disturbing the peace ordinance was unconstitutional as applied to defendant’s religious speech. John Netherland was threatened with arrest for his loud preaching, standing on a public easement near the parking lot of the Sidelines Grill yelling at customers
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Court Says City Unconstitutionally Applied Law To Restrict Street Preacher