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March 3rd, 2003
A Baptist pastor shares his perspective on the re-election from Brazil
To the Editors of BustedHalo:
Like most people around the world, I saw the re-election of George W. Bush to the presidency of the United States as ...
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February 28th, 2003
A House Painter and the Importance of Passionate Living
Could it be that "lust" is one of the good seven deadly sins? Possibly the only one that is?
I love the word lust because the word ...
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February 26th, 2003
Scripture Reflections for Sundays in Lent
Readings:
Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Rm 8:31b-34
Mk 9:2-10
Are you willing to risk everything for love?
This may sound like the refrain of a Celine Dion song, but instead it is the ...
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February 12th, 2003
The Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary
The little round vial holds about an ounce of water. There's a silver cross that sits on top of it. And in big block letters just one word: Jordan.
Those who see it ...
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February 7th, 2003
I read the reading from Genesis three times before I picked up on the rainbow. "I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." ...
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February 7th, 2003
An Ash Smudge and the Cross of Christ
We are a smooth-skinned people.
Between walnut-shell exfoliants, multivitamins, microdermabrasion and "Botox parties," well off Americans aim to erase death line by wrinkled line. We want to look ...
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January 28th, 2003
The awkward relationship between Christianity and the earth
When I first learned that a possible Hebrew-to-English translation of Genesis 1:28's command for humans to ‘subdue the earth' is, literally, ‘rape the earth,' I cheered. At the ...
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January 25th, 2003
Too busy for the Almighty? Maybe Not
Sister Kay is slothful. She's a nun and professor and frantically busy. So, when she announced to my Monday night class that she is lazy, I was shocked. Spiritually lazy, she clarified. Some days, she ...
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January 23rd, 2003
Ministering to the ‘Spiritual But Not Religious'
PART 1: THE HIRED GUN
"Can you imagine us doing this in a church?" I wasn't eavesdropping, but I did overhear Mina, ...
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January 9th, 2003
More Than Just Respectable and Nice?
Are you a good Catholic?
As we begin 2003, we are surrounded by war and rumors of war. What do you think of the Bush administration's ...
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