One of the things many of us struggle to fully embrace is the reality that we are loved unconditionally by God. It is hard to us to accept that we do not need to do anything to earn God’s love, that God truly loves as as we are, despite all of our imperfections.
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Dare to Believe
Nevada (US), June 7 : Hindu scholars would be willing to help actor-comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) to explore Hinduism further if he is earnestly interested and lives up to its noble objectives.
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Hindus willing to help Russell Brand if he seriously wishes to explore spirituality deeper
By G Vinod SHAH ALAM: The late Rayappan Anthony could not have recited the Islamic profession of faith in his final moments because he was in a coma, the Shah Alam High Court heard today.
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Hubby left Islam in 96, widow tells court
I picked up a copy of Helmut Thielicke’s Encounter with Spurgeon . Essentially it is a 45 page reflection on Spurgeon’s homiletics by a theologian you might not expect to rave so wildly about his work and ministry, followed by selected highlights from Spurgeon’s writings. I have not read Thielicke since studying ethics at seminary, but I will have to be disciplined not to just copy most of the 45 pages here in the next few days! However, I do think this can be a Thielicke on Spurgeon week as far as this blog is concerned.
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Theme Number One in the Church
Sign installers Tom May, left, and Marc Busby practice their craft at the Crocker Art Museum in February. For four months starting today, the Crocker Art Museum will be closed to the public – perhaps only the second long closure in its 125-year history. But it will continue to be an active presence in the interim.
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Crocker to close doors for a time, but its events still fill art calendar
The banner for PRELUDIUM has been for the past while this quote from William Stringfellow : “The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of, and reliance upon, and the celebration of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.” I’ve been reading a biography of Bede Griffiths today and thinking about the Vedanta understanding and use of holy scripture and the high sense of “the Word” as being both about the Creator, the whole of Creation as a “book” whose story peaks in the coming of the Christ, physical and cosmic, and the Spirit of Truth that flows from the scripture and informs both the understanding of Creator, Christ and Spirit. It was an afternoon with few words and time to listen to them as they worked together for my soul’s health.
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A quiet late night meditation on being fed by the Word.
These are two more photographs of the Yaquina Bay Bridge I took yesterday, these from the opposite (south) side of the crossing. I have a thing for dramatic bridges. This is not the first time and may well not be the last time I praise the Yaquina Bay Bridge, it being among the horrors big government visited upon the people of Oregon in the days of FDR.
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More from Newport
Yesterday’s conditions were chafe-free and all but perfect for the Newport Marathon , which I completed in 3:26:02 (7:51 min/mile pace; official ). While that time is a little slower than I might hope for — around 5 minutes too slow to qualify for Boston — it’s a result I report without any tinge bad feeling since it represents the best I was able to do that day. Truthfully, I wasn’t sure I would make it
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Newport Marathon 2010 – Idyllic & Weasel-Rich
Now, I rather approve of Michael Gove, erstwhile pillar of this newspaper. He used to supervise this very page, and many is the stimulating and amiably disputatious phone call we have enjoyed. His progress into the Cabinet as Education Secretary has been fascinating to observe, as it always is when colleagues cross the ditch dividing comment from administration.
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Listen Govey, not all sink schools are failing
Last week, who made this comment on modern culture? “The conspicuous consumption of exchanging sex for money is now in our faces.
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Was Mary Whitehouse right all along?
It was said of Ed Sullivan, the Nixon lookalike who compered the variety shows that brought Elvis Presley and the Beatles into America’s living rooms, that he could light up a room just by leaving it. Given the dazzling wattage of Simon Cowell’s smile, this is a joke that does not quite work against Sullivan’s modern-day British equivalent.
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Simon Cowell’s got talent. He deserves his Bafta
When my listeners’ eyes glaze over, I start the quiz section of my open-air soap box sessions in Blackburn town centre. First prize, two tickets to Burnley Reserves, second prize four tickets. This usually raises a laugh; and winning is so unattractive that I’ve yet to pay up.
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There’s no case for cutting the number of MPs
If there were a World Cup for enterprise, Scotland would not just have failed to make the finals — we would not even have made the qualifiers. These are the dismal findings I have drawn from the latest edition of the authoritative review of Scotland’s entrepreneurial activity — the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Scotland.
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Scotland must reject dependency culture
Paul Harvey I spent a lot of time growing up waiting in the hospital waiting room. This wasn’t because I was ever ill when younger, or because I sustained any injuries more grievous than spraining my ankle about 10,000 times playing basketball for the last 40 years. Rather, my father, a family physician in a small town and one of just two doctors for one entire county in the Oklahoma Panhandle, got called in a lot — and if my mother wasn’t around, the hospital waiting room was my babysitter
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Cancer Cannot Kill Doggerel
It’s a slam-dunk for Matina Kolokotronis, the Kings president of business operations: “The upcoming season is going to be huge for us. The team is moving in the right direction,” she says
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She deftly handles the Sacramento Kings’ business affairs
A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another such group is on the rise, seeking to restore Hinduism as Nepals state religion, claims a prominent doctor who was a kidnap victim.
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Doctor claims kidnapped by Hindu militant group
Hindus have welcomed the interest of Unitarian Universalists in Hinduism ideas, practices, and values. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that everybody was welcome to indulge in rich philosophical thought Hinduism …
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Hindus Welcome Unitarian Universalist Interest in Hinduism – Newsblaze.com
Paul Harvey We’re a bit tardy in taking note of this, but for those who haven’t been following, CNN is the latest entrant into the religious blogosphere, with CNN Belief Blog (now added to our blog sideroll under “BlogFavs”). Noted religious historian Stephen Prothero is one of the contributors.
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Belief Blogging, Protestant Liberalism, and Fundamentalist Originalism
Amritsar, Jun 6 (PTI) Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, today observed the 26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple here as genocide day, saying the wounds inflicted on the community’s psyche by the offensive were yet to heal. “The Sikh community all over the world still feels the unhealed wounds of Operation Blue Star, Akal Takht Jathedar Gyani Gurbachan Singh said addressing a function held by the SGPC to mark the occasion at the Temple where the operation was carried out by the Indian army in 1984 to flush out pro-Khalistan militants. DETAILED NEWS CAN BE VIEWED FROM THE LINK IN HEADLINE ABOVE
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26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star observed
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 6: A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another such group is on the rise, seeking to restore Hinduism as Nepal’s state religion, claims a prominent doctor who was a kidnap victim.
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Another Hindu militant group on rise in Nepal?
Peace FM Online and Courthouse News Service report that a lawsuit was filed last Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America against the J. Paul Getty Museum. The suit seeks return of seven illustrated pages, known as the Canon Table, taken from an illuminated Armenian Bible created by Toros Roslin for Constantine I in 1256.
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Armenian Church Sues Getty Museum For Return of Bible Pages
A group of Sikhs have travelled to battlefields where members of their community fought in World War I. BBC Asian Network’s Poonam Taneja joined them. The location is the quaint French town of Neuve-Chapelle and a gathering of Sikhs surrounds a stone podium as prayers are recited in Punjabi.
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Sikhs take journey to remember WWI fallen
Security has been tightened at the Golden temple here in view of the 26th anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Sunday. Policemen in plainclothes are also deputed outside the premises as a precautionary measure in view of expected presence of radical Sikh activists in the temple. The Sikh bodies, including SGPC and Akal Takht, observe the anniversary of Operation Bluestar every year.
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High security at Golden Temple for Bluestar anniv
A Delhi court has reserved its order on framing of charges against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others in the Sultanpuri carnage that left six persons dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta, after hearing arguments both from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the accused on Saturday, said the court will pronounce its order on July 1. The CBI lawyer sought the prosecution of Kumar, a former Outer Delhi MP, and four others for murder, rioting and other offences under the IPC while the defence counsel requested discharge of the accused on the grounds of insufficient evidence
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1984: Order on framing of charges on July 1
Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab), Jun 4 (PTI) A court here today acquitted a Sikh, whose name figured in the black list maintained by the centre for alleged anti-national activities during the dark days of terrorism in Punjab. Forty-year-old Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukhi Sumundari was aquitted by court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate here. Sukhi?s counsel told reporters outside the court premises that the court acquitted Sukhi as the prosecution had failed to prove charges against him
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Black listed Sikh acquitted by court
The Shiromani Akali Dal Core Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) called upon the Centre for an expeditious enactment of the Anand Marriage Act for Sikhs, along the lines of similar acts for other religions. Sources said the draft of this Act is ready for ratification by the Union Cabinet. After the clearance, it is likely to be introduced in the Parliament in the next session.
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Enact Anand Marriage Act for Sikhs: SAD urges Centre
Ephraim Radner is writing a good bit these days, sometimes for editors who take some considerable joy in giving his essays provocative titles, as in the Living Church’s latest posting of his essay titled, “Actions Now Have Consequences.” TLC seems to take some glee in the fact that actions have consequences, but does not seem to think that this has always been the case. But dear friends, actions always have consequences, and we all know that. The snotty title is just that, a poke in the eye
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Radner’s writings of the week.