August 15 is the Catholic feast of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary . Freemuse and Indeks 73 both report this week that in Poland, conservative Catholics are protesting the Madonna concert scheduled for that day in Warsaw. Appeals are being made to the President of the city Warsaw, the mayor of Bemowo (the Warsaw district where the concert is going to take place) and the Minister of the Interior and Administration to convince them to cancel or postpone the concert
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Some Polish Catholics Protest Upcoming Madonna Concert
NEW YORK—-To meet the needs of its diverse clinician and patient constituency, EmblemHealth today announced publication of what is believed to be the first comprehensive guide to help physicians and medical professionals address the needs of patients whose health care decisions are influenced by their religious and cultural beliefs.
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Neighborhood board endorses Laie housing planHonolulu AdvertiserLA’IE — The Ko’olauloa Neighborhood Board tonight voted 7-4 to endorse a plan by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to develop …Mormon Church’s proposed development at Malaekahana draws supportHonolulu Star-Bulletinall 2 news articles »Written by “Latter day saints” – Google News and Powered by WordPress This entry was posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 5:20 amand is filed under News.
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Neighborhood board endorses Laie housing plan – Honolulu Advertiser
The Catholic community in Nigeria has condemned the ongoing sectarian crisis in some states in the northern part of the country and called on the leaders of the Boko Haram movement (translated as ‘Western education is sin’), to adopt a creative approach to their religious practice in order to give honour and glory to Almighty
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Catholics, Kumuyi condemn crisis, urge respect for human lives – The Guardian
This story really should be one of our Jokey Jokes, but we’re going to try and not laugh and say, “Children and parents, don’t teach your children how to drive prematurely. This could happen to you and your family and this young man was very fortunate that this escapade did not cause more serious repercussions. Someone could’ve died, but thank God they didn’t.” And we hope that he got his little butt whooped! Check him out: Share
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7-Year Old Takes Cops On Chase to Avoid Church
By George Conger, The Living Church The adoption of resolutions D025 and C056 by the 76th General Convention speaks to an unhealthy degree of theological ignorance and ecclesiastical incoherence at work within the higher councils of The Episcopal Church [TEC], Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said in a statement released July 27. While the adoption of resolutions on rites for the blessing of same-sex unions and the consecration of gay clergy to the episcopate have not created a de
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Assurances on Convention Actions ‘Unpersuasive,’ Archbishop Says
In 1988, the American Philosophical Society produced a paper titled “Critical Thinking: A Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction.” From these imperious and slightly Orwellian beginnings emerged a nice summary of the anti-totalitarian, duly skeptical, reality-grounded, reason-responsive approach to thinking: The ideal critical thinker is habitually inquisitive, well-informed, trustful of reason, open-minded, flexible, fair-minded in evaluation, honest in facing personal biases, prudent in making judgments, willing to reconsider, clear about issues, orderly in complex matters, diligent in seeking relevant information, reasonable in the selection of criteria, focused in inquiry, and persistent in seeking results which are as precise as the subject and the circumstances of inquiry permit. I like adding a little smart-ass for spice, but tastes vary.
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Critical Thinking, n.
During these last several posts I have been writing about the different ways God spoke to me during my sabbatical time away. Today I will give a reflection in the ministry arena. One of the things I wanted to do during my time away is ask the question, “What are the primary gifts/abilities God has given me, and how can I be the best steward of those gifts during my next season of ministry?” You would think after 14 years of full-time ministry that should be a no-brainer. However, it is alw
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Sabbatical Reflection #3 Knowing my Gifts/Abilities
I added the following paragraph before point III in this previous post, and thought I would also share it separately for anyone who has already read through the original post prior to my editing of it: As an aside, there seems to be a great fear among Protestants that the Orthodox Church is a “dead” place, where there is no longer any thought, development, learning, seeking, searching and longing for truth. The attitude within Orthodoxy is presumed to be one of “everything is settled, so no n
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Appendix to the Post on Ecumenical Councils
Okay, so let me first explain my blog title, I usually do a title of “the wedding of so and so” and every once in a while something hysterical will happen like the tying of the tie with the funeral director that I heard so many laughs about, (if you don’t know what I mean, check out the wedding of Amanda and Brian), and then I decide to change the name of the blog title. Jessica and Dave’s was no exception. EXCEPT for the fact that this time, it was the Monsignor who screwed up! He called Dav
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the wedding of jessica and what’s his name, LOL, dave