Tag: spirituality
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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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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September 10, 2006 09:57 PM EDT --
If God doesn't cause or sanction human suffering, how do we explain 9/11 and other tragedies that visit truly wonderful people?
I've been pondering this question, since receiving word the other . . .
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February 14, 2006 05:35 PM EST --
I was nearing the climax of another "Deeply Disappointing Drama" when I decided to simply surrender, just let go. I had examined every scene and every actor from every conceivable angle, and . . .
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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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June 21, 2009 11:06 PM EDT --
I visited a friend in the hospital yesterday. As I approached the reception area, I noticed a beautiful little boy accompanied by a couple that might have been his grandparents. This cherub couldn't have . . .
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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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December 25, 2007 03:57 PM EST --
Merry Christmas, Gather Family:
You might recall that this time last year, the ancient Law of Attraction was in the process of becoming a 21st century fad. That excitement soon . . .
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July 12, 2009 08:47 PM EDT --
It happened Thursday. I was taking my daughter to the airport after a blissful weeklong Independence Day vacation from everything. I even played hooky from the home-church:
"Uh oh, here comes . . .
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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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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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