Today’s first Mass reading is from the Book of the Prophet Micah. Not a book most of us know exceedingly well, but most of us are familiar with the line that ends today’s reading, God’s explanation to the people, through the prophet Micah, of what is required of them. What is clear from God’s words is that the easy things don’t cut it.
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You Have Been Told What is Good
Prague, July 16 (CTK) – The Prague Municipal Museum has issued eight books on the culture, language and cuisine of the Vietnamese within an exhibition on Vietnam it currently holds, the “Knizni novinky” new books magazine has written.
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Prague Museum issues books on Vietnamese culture
ANI The contribution of NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) belonging to Punjab is immense as far as providing help in the sectors of health, sports and education. NRIs residing in the United Sates have been making efforts to encourage and mobilise education in Punjab.
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US-based NRIs raise funds for imparting education to Punjab’s needy students
JALANDHAR: The BJP has demanded that the government grant citizenship to Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan who have fled to India after facing harassment there. “Every person who wishes to return to our country, should be granted citizenship, irrespective of the community he or she belongs to,” BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu said here. He was asked about the demand of Hindu and Sikh families from Pakistan, who have been residing here for over a decade, that they be given Indian citizenship
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BJP favours granting citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs from Pak
Sikhs are shocked and outraged at a ruling by a Texas Court of Appeals ordering that the only Sikh Temple (Gurudwara) in Austin, Texas be torn down. Austin Gurdwara Sahib (AGS), a non-profit, Sikh organization purchased land in West side of the Greater Austin area in 2003 to start the first permanent Gurudwara in the Capital City
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Court orders destruction of Sikh temple in Texas, USA
Nevada (US), July 18 : Acclaimed religious statesman Rajan Zed will be honored with ‘Vishwa Nagrik Adhikar Hindu Shiromani Puraskar’ (Global Civil Rights Hindu Jewel Award) at California Hinduism Summit, a gathering of prominent Hindu leaders and activists, in Sunnyvale (California, USA) on August 28.
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California’s first Hinduism Summit to honor Rajan Zed with ‘Global Civil Rights’ award
To Be Educated by Carolyn Caines If I can learn my ABCs, can read 600 words per minute, and can write with perfect penmanship, but have not been shown how to communicate with the Designer of all language, I have not been educated. If I can deliver an eloquent speech and persuade you with my stunning logic, but have not been instructed in God’s wisdom, I have not been educated
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To Be Educated
Applying the rule that “a parent’s religious beliefs and practices may not be considered by the trial court as a basis to deprive [a] parent of custody unless there is a showing of actual harm to the health or welfare of the child,” a Kansas appellate court, in a 2-1 decision, has rejected a Muslim father’s objections to granting of residential custody to his son’s mother because of her practices as a Jehovah’s Witness.
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Court Says Mother’s Religious Practices Inadmissible In Custody Dispute
Today’s Las Vegas Sun describes the strong religious element in the U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Sharron Angle, who is seeking to unseat Senate majority leader Harry Reid. Angle has described her efforts as a calling from God.
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Nevada Senate Candidate Sees Her Run As Religious Mission
In considering the toll that rapid economic development is taking on Asias environment, economists in Asia want governments to reconsider the use of gross domestic product as a measure.
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Rethinking the Measure of Growth
Today’s Gospel reading from St. Luke is the well-known passage where Jesus visits the home of Martha and Mary. While Martha is running around doing chores, Mary sits at the feet of Jesus, listening to him speak. When Mary complains to Jesus, asking him to instruct Mary to help her, Jesus replies, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Now, doubtless some of Martha’s tasks were quite important and I do not think Jesus meant to imply by his words that we completely lay aside all of our obligations – taking care of our children, putting effort into our jobs, etc. – and sit around all day
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Stop, Sit, Listen
Vietnam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centres practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place.
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Vietnam history overview
President Obama is gaining support among evangelical leaders who want a path to legalization for illegal immigrants.
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Evangelicals Are Joining Obama on Immigration Overhaul
As previously reported , in the Canadian provice of British Columbia the attorney general is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to rule on whether the province’s anti-polygamy law is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Today’s Vancouver Sun reports that a 45-page research paper by Canadian scholar Joseph Henrich has been filed with the court.
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Scholar’s Report Outlines To Canadian Court The Harms of Polygamy
In Bollier v. Austin Gurdwara Sahib, Inc ., (TX App., July 9, 2010), a Texas appellate court held that building of a Sikh Temple violated a subdivision’s restrictive covenant that limited land use to single family dwellings
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Sikh Temple Must Be Removed For Violation of Restrictive Covenant
The Times of India today reports that a court in the city of Muzaffarpur has ordered India National Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi to appear on charges that she hurt religious sentiments by depicting herself as the goddess Durga on a party poster in 2007.
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India Party Leader To Appear On Charges of Depicting Herself As Goddess Durga
It’s important for the atheist movement to get more mainstream coverage. More Americans need opportunities to see their atheist neighbors, to understand where they come from, and that they are not monsters. It can’t always be about …
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Bloc Raisonneur: Nightline's Atrociously Bad Report on Atheism
In the course of working on one of the books I’m writing this year, I’ve been re-reading my notes from various teachings of Buddhist lamas – some my own notes from teachings I attended when I lived in Nepal and India and others from tapes of talks I listened to during that same time. One of the talks I just read was a commentary on a text called the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
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Dealing with Complaints and Criticisms
That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back.
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Weekend Devo – God’s in the Details
Ever since Steve Jobs and the iPhone posse came down from on high and delivered to us common folk his revolutionary technology, people have been looking like Cujo for the latest in “apps”. It’s now an advertising pop culture reference but seriously, regardless of what inane need you have… hit it… “there’s an app for
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Hate God? There’s an app for that.
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The Obama administration is offering incentives to Kenya to approve a controversial new constitution that would legalize abortion for the first time, promising that passage will “allow money to flow” into the nation’s coffers, including U.S. aid
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Obama pushing abortion on Kenya
What if our superheroes could preach from the pulpit? In the vein of “The Tao of Star Wars” or “The Gospel According to the Simpsons,” Christian authors Adam Palmer and Jeff Dunn embarked on a mission to weave together spiritual messages from the three Spider-Man movies.
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In a new book, Spider-Man spins a web of spirituality
What does it mean when the two best-known Indian-American politicians in American politics are converts to Christianity? In South Carolina, Nikki Haley won the Republican nomination for governor despite a whisper campaign that criticized her name and religion.
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Can Sikhs and Hindus get elected without converting?
Thirteen years ago, a biomedical engineer in Orange County, Calif., had a religious awakening and began tinkering with plastic lawn chairs and bicycle wheels in his garage. Don Schoendorfer, who has a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was in search of the perfect wheelchair for the poor in the developing world — a vehicle that would be light, durable and, above all, cheap.
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Engineer is called to provide wheelchairs for the poor
List of 14 updates to canon law of the Roman Catholic Church labels pedophilia, ordaining women as “grave delicts.”
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Revised Vatican law labels sex abuse, female priests as crimes
OK, so this comes from the Rev. Dusty Ray, pastor of Heartland Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he is one of the leaders of a movement opposing the construction of a new 52,000-square-foot, “megachurch”-style Islamic center, including a mosque. (Who knew Murfreesboro, Tenn., had such a thriving Muslim community?)
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Unintended Ironic Quote of the Year
My Take: Hinduism's caste problem, out in the open CNN (blog) “There is no caste in Hinduism ,” he told me, and no evidence would convince him otherwise. Not the fact that all my Hindu friends know precisely what caste …
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My Take: Hinduism’s caste problem, out in the open – CNN (blog)