Religion
November 19, 2009
- Most of us desire peace in our lives. I know that was the motivation for divorcing my husband. I was done with the daily uncertainty of his mood swings and decided to forfeit comfort for, well, what I considered peace. I'm pleased to say that it worked, but not before going through an uproar to get there. Yet, peace can mean something more universal, even if it has its caveats. Some believe ...
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November 13, 2009
- Worn out has-been or drama queen? Interpretations of the Palestinian president's threat to quit vary greatly. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn’t run for re-election in the proposed January elections. Back when he was Yasser Arafat’s deputy in the ...
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November 13, 2009
- This is that time of year when every lapel sports a red paper poppy to commemorate fallen British soldiers. A beautiful tradition followed by the young and old, soldier and civilian alike. It speaks to a nation that remembers. When I first came to England, my boyfriend told me the story of a friend who had an idea to hire an airplane to fly over the Thames and release 3 million poppies. ...
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November 12, 2009
- THANK YOU ST.JUDAS ISCARIOTWe should thank Judas Iscariot, this must be the first person to be declared saint, if anyone worked to achieve sainthood, and Judas is the tool and the instrument thru which the world received the magnificent benefit of blood of Christ. He is the prime mover of the High priest and the Roman governor, if it was not for he, neither high priest nor the governor could have ...
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November 2, 2009
- All day the wind blew steady. The sun shone strong. The birds flew and the leaves fell. Across the sky, clouds and airplanes made fleeting appearances. Today is November 2nd, A Day of the Dead, the Day of All Souls. In churches they lit candles for those that they miss. They prayed for their mothers, their children and for all those they knew they were forgetting, whose names had slipped into ...
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November 2, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 12 Freedom of religion was established by General George Washington the first president of the United States of America, for Americans. However, freedom of religion has its roots of decree in the kingdom of the Medes and Persians. A full understanding of establishing freedom of religion in society is dated back to ...
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October 30, 2009
- One person told me, “Whenever I intentionally engage in meditation or a prayer or something like that kind, I always fail. For example when I decide to observe fast for a day, or wish to visit a temple early in the morning, problems will certainly occur from anywhere, like an invitation for dinner from some one very close that you cannot avoid, heavy rain, or my otherwise good performance car ...
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October 21, 2009
- One of the advantages of being an author in an “exotic” locale is that people visit and want to hear from you as someone who knows the place well. It’s also one of the disadvantages.Last Friday night, I drove out to Ein Kerem to meet one such group of visitors from Reboot, a U.S. organization that brings together mostly liberal – and certainly not conventional-thinking – Jews to discuss ...
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October 21, 2009
- God is one rocking muse. Some writer or the other uses religion as allegory, metaphor, reinterpretation. Some religious group or the other is offended. Jose Saramago who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature has written a book Cain that has been described as an ironic retelling of the Biblical story of Cain, Adam and Eve's son who killed his younger brother Abel.I assume since he has titled the ...
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October 15, 2009
- Book Notes: (1) How to Believe in God and (2) Sinners Welcome (1) How to Believe in God is a book that sees the word God as only a word—a word, nonetheless that expresses universal presence and love extended to all people, believers and non-believers alike. A presence, too, the only presence that knows why things are the way they are. This is a book for the devout of any faith who may ...
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