Tag: beliefs
member name: Patricia Arnold
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February 01, 2006 09:51 PM EST --
This no-drama queen loves a good sit-com. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has admitted that remarks he made during his Martin Luther King address were "totally inappropriate". I think he meant . . .
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February 26, 2006 09:53 PM EST --
Ah, the good ol' days! Travel used to be so simple then.
When I was a kid, part of the excitement of any trip south of Chicago was the picnic in the car. There were always sandwiches, fried chicken . . .
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January 26, 2006 10:48 PM EST --
I wonder what Pat Robertson's audience figures are like since he diagnosed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as suffering from Divine Punishment. Didn't know he was an MD, did ya?
Apparently, . . .
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January 29, 2006 11:07 PM EST --
Gee, it must have been tedious and time-consuming to intimidate large numbers of people prior to the advent of the Internet. Now, with just a click of the mouse, you can threaten masses of people in a . . .
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April 04, 2006 12:04 AM EDT --
One of the ministers at my church is fond of saying, "Prayer doesn't change things; it changes us." Now, an exhaustive $2.4 million study on the healing power of prayer may have revealed . . .
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April 12, 2009 08:42 AM EDT --
As I watched the sunrise this Easter morning, a question popped into my mind. Perhaps you have asked yourself the same thing, but were afraid to ask it of anyone else. It’s not a simple question, . . .
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March 02, 2009 12:25 AM EST --
Truth shows up in the most unlikely places. I recently stumbled upon one of the most profound bits of truth printed on the tag of my tea bag:
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a . . .
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January 24, 2006 11:18 PM EST --
Conventional wisdom says we must ask the right question to get the right answer. So when I spotted a Chicago Tribune column asking, "If God's so intelligent, why is every last thing on Earth so . . .
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January 15, 2007 03:37 PM EST --
“Mankind must evolve, for all human conflict, a method that rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is Love.”
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . . .
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January 26, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
Maybe you've already received this image of the nighttime sky in an e-mail message. If not, take a wild guess at what that eerie looking object in the heavens might be.
Need a hint? Well, according . . .
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January 24, 2006 11:15 PM EST --
The thought of 30,000 unbathed, hungry souls living--barely surviving, really--inside a New Orleans sports stadium with no water, food, electricity, toilets, or air conditioning pales when compared with . . .
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February 16, 2009 10:26 AM EST --
This is a re-print from my new blog, "Homilies for the Home-Churched," a space where Thinkers who are open to the possibility that God is Bigger and Better than we’ve read or heard, . . .
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April 06, 2009 12:23 AM EDT --
Most of us are quite confused when we try to understand how--or if--prayer works, especially when we're told that whatever we ask, in prayer, we will receive. Our experience tells us that this is . . .
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February 24, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
This week's homily was motivated by an particularly insightful response to last week's essay, "God as Valentine:"
"I am of the mind that the practice of the . . .
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March 08, 2009 10:10 PM EDT --
I had a different topic in mind for this week's homily. Then I was abruptly awakened and given a new one. It was almost 3 o'clock this morning. That's when my phone rang.
It was my daughter, . . .
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March 29, 2009 11:52 PM EDT --
"When you believe in things that you don't understand, you suffer."
I received an email a few days ago--the third or fourth time I've received it in the past year. It was . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:16 AM EST --
I'm always in awe of people who can quote scripture. I'm equally intrigued when they insist that it is the Word of God. My latest book delves into our beliefs a bit. I am convinced that . . .
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January 24, 2006 11:09 PM EST --
I saw the funniest commercial the other day. It was a spot for DiGiorno frozen pizza. The scene: Geppetto's cobbler shop. He's scolding Pinocchio. Again.
"You'll never be a real boy if . . .
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