2025-03-31
2025-03-31
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- Bishops meet: Leadership from a flock of shepherds
- Notre Dame gets a pass from Bishops
- Chrysler: Bad cars, great skyscraper
- Campus speakers: Double-standard?
- Glendon's daughter: Don't mess with Mom
- Jesuit weekly: Church should consider married priests
- Finding Obama's ambassador to the Vatican
- Notre Dame "reparation" Mass: Bishop Wenski explains
- If no FOCA, what now for the anti-abortion movement?
- The Empty Tomb: Cardinal Newman's last laugh
- Hiking salvation: Lost, but how I'm found
- The Three-Minute Confirmation Stick
- Is Barack Obama the new Al Smith?
- Donna Brazile: A good Catholic girl lets loose...
- Chaput to the Papist: "A quieter approach has not been effective..."
- Vatican embraces Freud: Anything for a gay-free priesthood!
- NEWS FLASH: Pope may allow women lectors!
- A Prayer for Joy
- Acknowledge Your Source
- A New Way To Live
- A Higher Purpose
- Carrots, Eggs or Coffee - What Are You?
- We Love From Heart to Heart
- Take a Good Look, What Do You See?
- The Taming Power of The Great
- Leap of Faith
- The Many Beautiful Colors of Life
- Go With The Flow
- The Power of Words
- What's a Sign That I'm Truly Walking in Freedom?
- The Divine Design
- Love or Fear?
- The Goodness of Life
- Magical, Fulfilling Relationships
- You Can Have the Relationship of Your Dreams
- Be Present & Brilliant!
- MEGA Abundance
- Create Your Good From Within
- The Sun Will Shine
- What Do You Expect?
- Mysterious Ways
- Align Your Body, Mind & Spirit
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 1
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 6
- Obama as Anti-Christ Theory Gathers Steam
- Pro-Life Democrats: Oxy-Morons?
- Detailing The Anti-Christ Imagery in the Obama Ad
- Pursuing Justice One Step at a Time
- Dear Rick: Would you ask Barack and John about...
- The Pathology of American Politics
- A Poignant Dispatch from Gene Robinson at Lambeth
- The Post 01/20/09 World
- Limbaugh Joins Fight Against Poverty
- Happy Progressive Income Tax Day!
- Bible Bill vs America
- Mother's Day, Feminism and Marylu
- Jon, Kate, and the Breakdown of the Evangelical Family
- The Right Name for the Religious Right
- The Poverty Forum: Deferential Option to the Rich
- Black Liberation Theology vs Victoria Jackson
- Brandeis, Banks, and Other People's Money
- Taking Back the Night
- Townhall.com - a Christian Backed Home for Racists
- Whose Conscience? Balancing Claims by Health Care Providers and Patients
- A Close Reading of the Text - The Progressive Approach to the Bible
- Rush, Race and the Religious Right
- Rick Warren Gives Sanctuary to Anti-Gay Episcopal Churches
- Faith Based Office by the Numbers
- Judging Religion
- Ending US Torture: A Time for Hope and Healthy Skepticism
- Obama, the Muslim World and a New Way Forward
- And There Lie the Bodies (by Gideon Levy)
- Partisans and Prayer: Right and Left together, for once
- The Auto Industry Bailout - A Hope and a Prayer
- Inaugural Invocation
- Election 2009 Mixed Blessings
- Halloween 2009 vs All Saints Day (Eternally)
- Health Care and Dispatches from the Conservative Underground
- Was Tiller's Murder Justice?
- A Non-Violent Reflection on Independence Day
- Conservative Cafeteria Catholics
- Dear Imam, Rabbi or Pastor: The Wrong Embryo Was Implanted, Can We Talk?
- Lutheran Gay Rights!
- Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama's Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Contradictions
- The Health Care Call with Faith Leaders and President Obama
- Threats and Acts of Violence from the Right Fringe - What is a Repubican Senator to Do?
- Religious Left Rallies for Obama
- Take the Beliefnet Exit Poll
- Progressive Revival Poll
- muslims and proposition 8
- President Obama and the Muslim World
- The People's Counter-Coup
- A Christmas Prayer
- To the Christian Leaders of America in this Time of Crisis
- The "Trekkie" Campaign
- Sarah Palin: Religionless Christian?
- Surprise! Christian Right Running on Fear
- How Does a President Chose a Church?
- Bob Jones University is Right
- Church Threatens to Ex-communicate Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch
- On Evil and the Election
- Palin as VP - A Great Day
- Reading Heschel on the Sabbath
- How long, O Lord, how long?
- Put Away Falsehood
- Omid Safi
- Dog Whistles, Hypocrisy, and "Traditional" Christianity
- AP: Obama Chooses Biden
- Baptism by Politics: Sacraments and "The Saddleback Confession"
- Battle of the Bishops
- What values?
- "When does life begin?" Interesting question. But it doesn't stop there...
- Matthew 25 Releases Statement on Palin Speech
- Change and Experience Matter - So Does Character
- Catholic Bishops offer a Five-Point Bailout Plan
- Praying for Pipeline
- Obama Takes Debate at Ole Miss
- Palin Hears Voices
- Palin: The Religious Right's American Idol (by Lisa Sharon Harper)
- Palin's Religion: What's Scary, What's Not?
- You Can Move The World
- Life
- T-H-I-N-K!
- Revolution/Transformation
- Sticking Your Neck Out
- TEAMwork – Together Everyone Achieves More
- We Love From Heart to Heart
- Live the Life You Have Imagined!
- Soar Like an Eagle
- God's Prayer
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 3
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 7
- Self-Mastery
- Focus On The Good!
- Make Love, Not Kapparos
- Jewish Book Carnival - Sukkot (October) Edition
- The best Yom Kippur break fast recipe. Really.
- Book reviews: The good ones, the bad ones, and the good bad ones.
- Thou shalt not commit what?
- Craft projects for Rosh Hashanah
- A story for my kids - the sweetness of missing each other
- Rosh Hashanah in Western Massachusetts
- Joseph and the Sabbath Fish, or I love Eric Kimmel part two
- Surprisingly decent Passover cookies
- Judaism comes to my garden (once again)
- Jewish Music Together
- Home-shuling vs. Shul-shuling
- Homeshuling, or, Jewish parenting in the comfort of your own home
- The Sabbath World comes to visit. I wish she could stay.
- Yummy but ugly
- Playing Christians
- Thanksgiving
- How lucky am I?
- The last re-run
- And some kind of help is the kind of help.......
- Could these be any cuter?
- About
- Shepping Nachas
- Homemade Menorah Project - an experiment in bling
- Tea-soaked eggs for Passover
- The Long and Winding Road...that leads to Canaan
- Grover learns (a little bit of) Hebrew
- America's (Kosher) Test Kitchen
- Why I send my children to Jewish day school, part I've-lost-count
- Bread Machine Challah - in case it ever cools down
- Of course we're staying for kiddush. We just got here.
- Searching for schach in all the wrong places
- Getting ready for summer camp. In November.
- Jewifying our local co-op
- (More) Truly Divine Hanukkah Gelt
- And the winner is......
- Book Giveaway - making Cheshvan just a little less bitter
- But is it good for the Jews?
- Redefining Shabbat, again and again
- What's in a name for an interfaith family?
- Happy Lag B'Omer
- Sometimes life imitates art
- Time for another giveaway
- Jewish Mommy Meme
- Back from vacation
- Party Pooper
- Trader Joe's makes me a better Jew
- Even cuter
- Home-shuling at Shul
- My first give-away!
- Kashering the toothbrushes
- A shabbat stroll with a purpose
- You Can Create Anything!
- Nothing Is Too Good To Be True!
- Master It with Self-Discipline!
- The Clinging, Fire
- The Magic of Kindness
- Happy Mother’s Day!
- A New Beginning
- Doing the Remarkable
- Gradual Development
- When All Else Fails, Praise Him
- What We Can Do to Awaken
- Happy Labor Day!
- The Public Bus
- 4 Harmful Ways We Respond to Trials in our Lives
- Pray Like You Mean It
- Kindness Inspires and Uplifts
- Have Contempt for Contempt – A Prayer
- The Game of Life, Part II
- A Persistent Positive Focus
- Why Are You Here?
- Praying the Psalms
- Are You Free?
- A Great Illusion
- Divine Restoration
- Prayer: Anxiety's Antidote
- Soup for the Soul
- Life Is
- Kindness Inspires & Uplifts
- The Silent Awakening
- Kindness
- Awaken
- Are We Listening For God?
- A Prayer Against the Fear of Terror
- The Sun Shines Above the Clouds
- The Carpenter
- Our True Essence
- Be The Change!
- Step Out With Faith
- I Believe
- Keep It Light!
- We Create Our Good From Within
- The Trap of the Golden Calf: Who Do You Worship?
- The World Depends On You!
- A Different Kind of Love (for Singles seeking Relationships)
- SOURCE
- 3 Ways to Soar Through Suffering
- Transformation Happens Instantaneously
- What About Humanity Surprises You The Most?
- Look With Wonder
- Be of Good Cheer
- If It’s To Be, It’s Up To Me!
- Seize the Opportunity!
- Are You Listening For God?
- God's Interior Design
- Step by Step
- Core Essence
- Perseverance
- Look for the Beauty
- Fulfilling Relationships
- Living in Danger, Living in Love: Two Models for Adults with Disabilities
- Heaven and Hell
- It's Always Good to Laugh
- From East Texas to Jesus
- What I'm Reading: Articles on Autism and Church, Surrogacy, and Adoption and Down syndrome
- A Child Is Born
- Spiritual Transformation
- What Makes a "Superior" Race?
- When Parents Think You Should Wait to Get Married...
- "I'm an Agnostic"
- Chaos and Order
- Mental Age
- Mess
- Soft Bigotry
- Thin Places
- Limits and Love
- Stories of Real People with Down Syndrome
- What if Mary had wanted to choose her babies?
- Holiday Shopping for Jesus?
- It's a Girl!
- Baby Update
- Blessed Are Those with Alzheimer's
- Happy Birthday Penny
- Grace Instead of Guilt
- Due Dates: A Book and a Baby
- Grateful for Laughter
- Perfectly Human: Taking Off My Brave Face, by Libby Hodge
- Questions for Jesus: Where Can We Get This Living Water?
- Why Do People With Down Syndrome Talk Like That?
- Temple Grandin and the Equal Value of Human Life
- What I'm Reading: Articles on God and Pain, Atheism, God and Parenting, Income Inequality, and IVF
- Cleaning Out the House
- Favorites of 2010: Does it Make a Difference to Follow God?
- Favorites of 2010: Don't You Care if We Drown?
- I Failed as a Gardener
- Perfectly Human**: All People Are Messy, by Libby Germer
- What's up with Hollywood and the "R-Word"?
- Down Syndrome Girl: Not So Funny
- Follow Up on Idolatry
- Does Money Make You Happy?
- What I'm Reading: Serve God, Save the Planet
- Worthwhile Wastefulness
- Is Disability Normal?
- Down Syndrome, Siblings, and Keeping Each Other Safe
- Perfectly Human**: My Friend Johnny by Matt Rhodes
- Perfectly Human**: Walking In and Amongst Something Holy by Becky Dawson
- Psalm 23: Make Me Lie Down
- Hello Little One
- Chocolate Cake, Clear Skies, and a Digger: A Perfect Birthday
- Perfectly Human**: Not Despite, Because, by Lydia
- Haiti and asking "why"?
- Cultural Narcissism and Memoir: Confession and Redemption Without God?
- Choices
- Who Is God?
- Drugs and Down Syndrome
- Faith in Action within our Schools
- Afraid of the Flu?
- Talking about Disability, Talking about Ability...
- Mary's Shame, Mary's Glory
- Abortion and Understanding
- What I'm Reading: Books and "the-fear-of-the-Lord"
- What I'm Reading: The Case Against Perfection
- Disability: A Seat at the Table
- The Golden Rule and My Squabbling Children
- Our Church versus the Environmentalists
- The Comprehensive Nature of Care
- Perfectly Human**: Walking Toward Freedom by Jessica Bigby
- By the way, we are NOT the Perfect Family
- Christian Impressions
- From Good Friday to Easter
- The Simple Things…
- We Love From Heart to Heart
- The Science of Becoming Excellent
- Discover Your Abundance & Greatest Gifts!
- The Power of Words
- Release & Freedom
- Lessons of Kindness from a Hobbit
- Turn Your FEAR Into POWER!
- Everything Is A Miracle!
- R. Crumb's literal Genesis comic
- How well stocked is your pantry?
- Mike Jones Had to Say Something
- There's No Sex Ed in Seminary
- Rick Warren's Jesus prayer
- Thankful that Thanksgiving is Over
- Richard Cizik Resigns from National Association of Evangelicals
- Haggard Comeback, Interrupted
- Top Delightfully Depressing Christmas Songs
- Cultivators and Creators: An Interview with Andy Crouch
- Farming Against the Anti-Christ
- Best Religious Books of 2008
- All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue
- Anne Rice takes your questions
- Again: Why is Focus on the Family cutting jobs?
- Soft Pre-Launch
- Should Christians Be Concerned about McCain? (testing 123)
- Signs of the End: Oprah at the Emmys
- Mad Men - Joan's glass ceiling and the early days of television advertising
- Max Lucado's Lamentation
- Forgive this Blog
- Today is the Day of Your Amazing Good Fortune!
- Your Circle of Influence
- You Are Designed to Prosper!
- Divine Restoration
- Grooming for Greatness
- The Way To The Kingdom
- Your Power for Unlimited Success & Abundance
- Who Is Your Master?
- There is a Divine Plan
- Acknowledge Your True Source
- Teach - Learn
- Let Freedom Ring
- Your World Is In Your Hands
- Anyway
- Lessons for Your Good
- Common Sense is Good Sense!
- Core Essence
- Are You An Optimist?
- You Are Good!
- The Miracle of Elimination & Forgiveness to Create Prosperity
- A.N. Wilson on the Darwin-Hitler Connection
- The Cowardice of Richard Dawkins
- Joe Lieberman, Jew-in-Chief
- Ibn Ezra Agrees: An "Apikoros" (Heretic) Is One Who Rejects Intelligent Design
- Don't Believe Jeff Sharlet on "Fundamentalism"
- God's Image in Man's Face -- and Hands and Feet, Too!
- The Madness of Robert Joe Halderman
- Full Female Crudity (& Gay Marriage)
- Two Cheers for Jews for Jesus
- A Morality Crisis in Orthodox Judaism?
- The Real Enemies of Israel and the Jews
- Why Intelligent Design is Jewish
- A Spooky Story about the Lubavitcher Rebbe
- Abortion as Capital Offense? Judaism's View
- A Challenge to Religious Liberals
- Lost Jews of Los Angeles
- Korach and Liberalism
- How Evolution's Co-Discoverer Came to Doubt Darwin in Favor of Intelligent Design
- Are Humans In God's Image? Even Darwinists like Francis Collins Say, Effectively, No
- How Women Will Be Hurt by Gay Marriage: A Postscript
- If the Children of Israel Were Giant Squid
- The Jackal God & Climate Change
- Poopooing Swine Flu
- Dancing with Other Men -- and Liking It!
- Intelligent Design or the Dreaded "Creationism"?
- Abuses by Clergy? A Note of Skepticism
- How to Create Loving & Fulfilling Relationships
- A Simple Way to Increase Your Faith
- It’s What’s Inside That Counts
- Thoughts To Live By
- All In Good Time
- The Power of Thought
- A Prayer to Understand What God is Like
- Being Present
- One Thing Leads to Another
- Progress
- Trust, Have Faith.....It is BELIEF that brings us Home
- Take Positive Action
- What Is It That Makes Me Better?
- I Believe
- Be Present
- Expect Miracles & Good Things
- There Is A Divine Plan For My Life
- The Power of Purpose
- What Is Real?
- The Game of Life
- There is always A way!
- Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative
- A Real Man & A Real Woman
- Keep It Simple Superstar - KISS
- A Prayer for Yeshua
- Focus on What You Want
- If You Want to Hear God, Slow Down Enough to Hear the Whisper
- Man Code #7: Be a Man and Run!
- The World Depends On You!
- Invisible Forces
- The Most Powerful Force
- Restoration
- Who Are You?
- Proper Nourishment
- What Lies Beneath?
- My Unique Beauty
- Are You Having Any Fun?
- My Conversation with God
- Where Do I Find the Power to Change? (10 Steps to Freedom Week 2 Day 1)
- 5 Steps to Fill Your Soul with Hope (10 Steps to Freedom Week 1 Day 4)
- A Prayer to Love Yourself
- “RECEIVING FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING”
- THE "NATURES" OF HUMANITY
- YOM KIPPUR: WE ARE OUR CHOICES
- Two Types of Pain Inflictors
- A Prayer to Love Yourself
- For Everything You Lose, You Gain!
- Thoughts We Live By
- We Can Move The World
- Divine Wisdom
- Can I Ever Be Free? (10 Steps to Freedom Week 1 Day 1)
- A Prayer of Spiritual Warfare
- The Old Testament Pathway to Prosperity and Success (10 Steps to Freedom Week 4 Day 3)
- The World Is In Your Hands
- Karma – True Giving
- The Secret to Intimacy with God
- A Prayer to End Financial Strife
- 3 Steps to Daily Surrender (10 Steps to Freedom Week 2 Day 4)
- Sweet Success
- It Helps to Remember
- Look for the Beauty
- A Real Hero
- A Mother’s Love
- Create An Empowering Environment For Your Life & Success!
- Foodborne Illness Survivors Tell President Obama, We Can’t Wait
- Kick in the Tush Club: Best Healthy Eats Issue Ever
- Kick in the Tush Club Tuesday: 7 Points of LITE: Depressed, Defeated, Diabetic Seeks HELP!
- Food Myth: Does “greasy tasting” equate to “more grease?”
- Dysfunctional Chef: Banana Rice Pudding
- Kick in the Tush Club: 4 Tips ... How to Spread Your Wings and FLY!
- Kick in the Tush Club: What is VELLEITY and do you SUFFER from IT??? Probably!!!
- Weight Loss Motivation: How Many Eggs Does It Take to Lose "It?"
- Play and Lose - Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle: Grow Your Own ?!?
- Kick in the Tush Tuesday: Is a Calorie Just a Calorie?
- The Ten Commandments of Permanent Weight Loss (revised edition 2012)
- 200 Tips Feed Your Soul, Change Your Weight: Week 3 -
- Weighty Confessions: Bare Your Soul, Lose Weight
- Eat: Dysfunctional Chef - 100 Calorie Pancake
- Play and Lose: Weight Loss JigSaw - Feed Your Soul Diet: Dream with Your Feet
- 200 Ways to Feed Your Soul - Tips 51-60: Peel Off the False Mask
- Dysfunctional Chef: Super Pow Slimming Breakfast
- Dysfunctional Chef: "Diet" Blueberry Cobbler
- Fat is Folly: 4 Steps to Postive Self-Talk
- National Hugging Day: 11 Tips - Full Frontal Hugging
- Kick in the Tush Club: Standard Poodles, Paula Deen's Disabetes, and the Inner Chubby Child speaks
- News Alert: Paula Deen - Comes Out of the Closet
- Dysfunctional Chef: Rosemary Beef Hash
- Top 3 Holiday Videos: Doggy Christmas, Hallelujah Flash Mob, Jewish Rock of Ages
- Get Jiggy Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle: She Wears a Mean Pineapple
- Kick in the Tush Tuesday: New Resolutions - Be YOU, Everyone else is already taken!
- End of 2011 Etiquette QUIZ: How Ill-Mannered Are YOU?
- Beat the Stress: Do THIS Not THAT
- 9 Tips: How to be Holiday SEXY
- Puzzle: Who's Steaming Hot?
- Puzzled: Simpler Times, Better Bathing Suits?
- Eat This, Lose Weight: Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding
- Star Power: 7 Ways to Burn Bright
- PLAY JigSaw and Lose Weight: How to Pet a Dog!
- A Baker's Dozen: 13 Ways to Reward Yourself After a Hard Day and Night
- Play: Weight Loss Puzzle - What Color Increases Appetite
- Dysfunctional Chef: Poached Figs and Duct Tape
- Kick in the Tush Tuesday - How to ... Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8
- Kick in the Tush Tuesday: Artificial Sweeteners Kills????
- Motivational Monday - How to Carve Out Meaningful Alone Time!!!
- 17 Day Diet vs. Our Lady of Weight Loss
- Motivational Monday - Are YOU a Food Victim?
- Motivational Monday - Sprinkle Seeds of Courage
- JigSaw Sunday - What happens when a Fish Loves a Bird?
