We posted about how Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson has promised not to pray a Christian prayer at the inauguration event where he will give the invocation. So to what deity is he going to pray? He is thinking now that he might address his prayer
We posted about how Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson has promised not to pray a Christian prayer at the inauguration event where he will give the invocation. So to what deity is he going to pray? He is thinking now that he might address his prayer
A federal judge has thrown out an atheist group’s lawsuit that would forbid the President-elect from saying “so help me God” with the oath of office as well as prayer at the inauguration. From CNSNews.com : Atheist Michael Newdow and 30 other “nontheistic” plaintiffs say
Andrew Wyeth, the modern artist who defied the modern art movement with haunting realistic paintings, died Friday. The art world didn’t know what to do with him. I like this tribute: Andrew Wyeth, who died today at 91 at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa.,
In yet another death in our declining stock of truly creative people, the British lawyer and author John Mortimer has died. He was best known for his series of comical mysteries featuring the curmudgeonly barrister Rumpole of the Bailey and his formidable wife “She Who
So the Arizona Cardinals, perennial losers with a supposedly washed-up quarterback Kurt Warner, are in the Super Bowl, playing against the perennial powerhouse Pittsburgh Steelers. See Super Bowl a contrast of opposite franchises. Sentiment will require pulling for the underdogs, though as a follower of
Barack Obama called for this Martin Luther King Day to be a day of service. That’s good. Holidays need some special activities to set them apart and make them catch on. We’ll see if this becomes a tradition.
Look at the many examples of vocation at work in what happened with that water landing in the Hudson River: All Survive Jet’s Splashdown in Hudson River – washingtonpost.com. The pilot, the crew, the passengers, and the boaters who rallied to help them all loved
More from St. Athanasius Lutheran Church: Baptism of our Lord Sermon by Rev. James Douthwaite: And not just any ol’ life do we now live, but as St. Paul said, a new life. His life. A Christ life. Not because we have to, but because
President Bush said good-bye to the nation as he prepared to leave office after eight years. Here is his farewell address. He has been extraordinarily hated and derided. And yet Barack Obama is apparently going to continue many of his policies. So what do you
Slumdog Millionaire dominated the Golden Globes and may do the same with the Oscars. I’ve talked to at least one person who saw it and liked it greatly. A British newspaper is calling it the first film of the Obama era, mainly because it is
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