Two new essays regarding the Anglican landscape come to the same conclusion: The fractures in the fellowship of churches called The Anglican Communion have reached the point where two different “maps” of relations are required. In Individualism, communalism, and the Anglican Covenant , published on Episcopal Cafe, Marshall Scott writes: “I fear …that the Communion cannot stand
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The New Anglican Maps: The Anglican Communion and the Confessing Anglicans.
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’
Over the last couple of years, our sago palm has started getting blotchy yellow spots. It is planted near a swimming pool but doesn’t get any water splashed on it. We have another sago in a pot on the side of our house that shows similar discoloration.
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Garden Detective: Cycad scale feasts on sago palms
This house is one of several on the Sierra Oaks Garden Tour featuring homes on Crocker Road. May brings out the flowers – and the people who want to see them. Several garden and home tours are available this month.
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It’s the season for garden tours around Sacramento
This variety called “First Yellow” is thought to be the first true yellow geranium to reach consumers. Mr
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Seeds: Rare yellow variety to be star of Carmichael Geranium Show
Amritsar, Apr 30 (PTI) Sikhs are not a separate community as it was a part of Hinduism, president of SAD (Master Tara Singh) Rashpal Singh claimed here today.
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‘Sikh community was part of Hinduism’: Rashpal Singh
After stepping through a few paragraphs consisting of twaddle interwoven with banalities — read Norm Geras for a fuller guide to all that — Stephen Clark concludes with that appears to be the whole of his argument. Step for step: Is that all there is to say about God? Believing in God is merely believing in the possibility of Justice?
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A Dispassionate Look at the Arc of the Universe
P ope Benedict XVI warned that a forthcoming new English translation of the Catholic Mass could provoke “confusion or bewilderment” among worshippers if not “introduced with due sensitivity.” Benedict made his remarks this week during lunch with a committee of English-speaking bishops from five continents, who have worked for almost a decade with the Vatican’s liturgy office on preparing the new translation.
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Pope urges sensitivity in changing Mass
W henever there has been a crisis in the world, from 9/11 to events in the Middle East, no one group in the metro area has been able to speak for the local Muslim community. The newly formed Midland Islamic Council wants to change that. And it also has other ambitious goals, such as unifying the various Muslim groups in the area.
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Local Muslim group hopes to form a united front
Noted biologist and former priest Francisco J. Ayala has advocated for a harmonious relationship between faith and science, one that maintains a just and benevolent God described in the Bible but grounded in a fact-based analysis of the physical world.
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Biologist says faith and science can co-exist