Tag: religion
member name: Patricia Arnold
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February 09, 2006 02:12 PM EST --
My dear friend, the Reverend Dr. Vici Derrick of Joy Chapel in Seattle, often says, "God made man in His image (Genesis 1:27); then man spun around and returned the favor." Apparently, we've . . .
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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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November 19, 2006 12:55 PM EST --
If it weren't for the occasional leaps in logic, I swear, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. OK, nobody knows my name at the nearby health club, either; but I do try to give my brain . . .
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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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June 14, 2006 10:38 PM EDT --
If I see that photo of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's lifeless blue face one more time, I think I'm going to barf. It was on the home page of the Yahoo! news section. It was on the front page of the newspaper . . .
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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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September 22, 2007 01:33 AM EDT --
A few months ago in this space, I suggested that we needed a prequel to the red hot best sellers touting the Law of Attraction. You know—something that lends credibility to claims that it’s . . .
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February 10, 2008 12:18 AM EST --
A few days ago, I theorized in this space that violent behavior stems from our beliefs about what God is and what God does. If we believe ancient stories that tell us that God solves problems by . . .
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November 16, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
I know you’re wondering: Is the balcony so high in the stratosphere that the Loud Mouth has become light-headed? How on Earth did she connect God to the King of Pop, an Army psychiatrist accused . . .
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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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January 27, 2008 04:01 PM EST --
It happened again. I received a wonderfully inspiring e-mail--lengthy, but inspiring--and just as I neared the end, there it was: the threat, preceded by a command to say "The Lord's Prayer" . . .
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June 08, 2009 12:19 AM EDT --
I received an email the other day with the most intriguing subject line: "Are you revolving or evolving?" It occurred to me that many of us don't know the huge difference that an "r" can make:
The concept . . .
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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 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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