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Date: 02/02/2012
[caption id="attachment_11724" align="alignleft" width="209" caption=""Me Again" starring Ali Landry"] [/caption] Have you ever wished you had taken another path? We all wonder what our lives would be like if we had made a different choice and movies like "Me Myself I," "The Family Man," and "Sliding Doors" feature characters who get a chance to see the road not taken. The latest f ...
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Date: 01/27/2012
In August of 2011 President Obama put into law a ruling that has caused the Catholic Church to be concerned. In his attempt to overhaul the health care system in America, he put into motion a law that requires all employers to provide birth control products as part of their medical coverage. This law is to take effect in August of 2013. For most people this isn't a big deal, but for those wh ...
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Date: 01/27/2012
Rivers are a dominant motif in my personal journey, so it's no wonder I woke up Wednesday morning with them on my mind. In fact, of all my contemplations, rivers are probably my most frequent. So what's the big deal? I wasn't sure at first, until I stopped thinking about the purpose of these rising thoughts and simply let them happen. That's often our first mistake throughout daily life: over ...
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Date: 01/24/2012
I reported for Reuters at the Washington state Capitol yesterday , covering the public hearings on a gay marriage bill -- and in between, the breaking news that the state Senate now has enough votes to pass the bill. (The House already had enough votes.) It now appears that Washington's lawmakers will legalize gay marriage next month, while opponents work on gathering the 260,000-plus signatures ...
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Date: 01/18/2012
In light of yesterday's spirited discussion on Facebook around women's leadership issues, sparked by Michael Frost's re-posting of Mars Hill teaching pastor Mark Driscoll's very controversial radio interview, I wanted to recommend a wonderful not-so-little (1,100 pages in fact) tome of a book written by Prudence Allen. The book, The Concept of Woman, is actually her second volume of this magn ...
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Date: 01/18/2012
Here are today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Yes YOU can win a day with Lino Rulli! Time with the Sinner author and SiruisXM/Catholic Channel host is the prize in Servant Books' Saints, Sinners and Salami contest. The winner gets a trip to New York City and the opportunity to spend a day with Lino, visiting his favorite Italian food joints as well as ...
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Date: 01/16/2012
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this letter while incarcerated on a charge of parading without a permit. It was in response to prominent white religious leaders of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, and Reform Judaism, who were against his protest marches, fearing violence. In this letter, MLK draws upon theologians from each of the clergymen's own tradit ...
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