Having spent the past two years almost exclusively reporting on the American Jewish community, it’s easy to forget how foreign some parts of traditional Jewish life are to most Americans. That’s why I could really appreciate this story from the Associated Press that does an excellent job of educating readers while informing them about a development in Big Sky country: In one of the least-Jewish states in the country, a traditional Jewish group working to revive religious observance has built a mikvah, a ritual bath for spiritual purification. The bath opened several months ago in an extension built onto the Bozeman home of Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his wife, Chavie, who came here with the Hasidic movement Chabad Lubavitch.
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Washing away the unclean
The Christian Aid Mission had a total of 14 Day of Caring volunteers doing projects ranging from shredding a fallen tree to filing in the accounting department. Groups from State Farm, Crutchfield and First Systems & Resources came early on the United Way Day of Caring and stayed for a lunch lovingly prepared by our guest house hostess. The detail of some of the work done has been highlighted below but even the areas not highlighted were a wonderful gift and we are very grateful to United Way
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A Time-consuming Task Completed!
Hello to All, Caroline has been putting out her own little news clip. I (Judy) want to give you a more overall look at Caroline’s. Caroline, being the center of Caroline’s Sewing Room, will be the beginning of this blog. Every week I will give more details about the rest of us here at Caroline’s. Caroline has weathered this past year with a SMILE most of the time. Those of us on the inside circle know she has beens crying on the inside and laughing on the outside. Isn’t that a song t
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Updates from Caroline’s
(WENDY GREEN/Standard-Examiner correspondent) KayLe Yamada, 15, rehearses n preparation for the taiko drummers’ performance at the Obon Festival this Saturday.Standard-Examiner, 16 July 2009 WENDY GREENOGDEN (Utah) — About 20 members of the local Buddhist church sat around on comfortable couches talking and laughing last Sunday afternoon. Only minutes later, they were an organized group of dancers beating drums in such unison any listener would assume the sound came from far fewer than the actua
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Honoring our ancestors / Local Buddhists celebrate Obon to the beat of many different drummers
This post is part of a collection of posts, and joined in on-line interaction with scores of others, in the reading of Jeremiah Burroughs’ “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”.Cult: a group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.When one begins to read the whole of the Bible, you are going to be faced with very uncomfortable, and challenging truths. There have been many times that I have wondered if I am not this guy pictured above. In m
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Is this cult language? Puritan Jeremiah Burroughs: "Learn to know that you are less than nothing"
Over at The Observer (Guardian UK) Jimmy Carter has some interesting (and I think insightful) things to say about religion and women, an issue that has often weighed heavy on my mind. In the piece Carter discusses his decision to leave the Southern Baptist Convention that he has been a part of for the past 6 decades due to the church’s outdated and discriminatory view of women: “I have been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a sou
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Jimmy Carter Defends Women in the Face of Religion
Any longtime reader of GetReligion knows that the gang here likes Q&A interviews, especially when they allow newsmakers to dig deeper into complex topics and tell their own stories in their own words. I think this journalistic tool is especially valuable on the religion beat — which is so rich in history, symbolism and doctrine. At the same time, as we saw the other day with that interview with U.S
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NYTs lands a big story (maybe)
On June 7th, 2008 Sarah Palin interrupted her schedule of state business and spent Alaska state taxpayer money to fly down from Juneau to the Mat-Su Valley where she attended on June 8th two religious events dominated by the Wasilla Assembly of God, which is demonstrably Palin’s key Alaska church. At the end of one those events, young adults in a church Palin had attended for over two decades were presented with Samurai swords. “Warriors of old were considered undressed if they were without
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Bruce Wilson: Palin Attended Church Event With Samurai Sword Ceremony
As a follow-up to Phil Sinitiere’s posting last week about novels in history classrooms and related heresies, here’s the beginning of a pre-press book review in Literature and Theolog y from RIAH’s real literature scholar, Everett Hamner. The book in question is Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between, by Dale Brown , published last year by Eerdmans. by Everett Hamner ABOUT A decade ago, I walked into my local Family Christian Store®.
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The Doubt, the Faith, and the Satanic Origins of Harry Potter (Egads!)
The Clerk and Technology Support Web Site ( clerk.lds.org ) is a helpful resource for clerks, secretaries, record keepers, stake technology specialists, auditors, and leaders who supervise these individuals. The site provides helpful information about record keeping and technology topics, including policies and procedures, troubleshooting tips, a library of training resources, and links to additional resources. The site includes a number of helpful resources: The letter and policies secti
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