For the last few years, our family would host an interactive and meditative Good Friday experience in our home. We’d spend the day setting up […]
The Arabic Word for “God” is “Allah” whether you are a Christian or a Muslim.
To the newspaper that encouraged “discreetly” photographing fat airline passengers
USA Today Travel released a video instructing passengers to post photographs to social media if they felt their space was invaded. One fat…
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That our glassy sea be mingled with fire— by William Graham Scroggie
“A sea of glass mingled with fire” (Rev. 15:2).
William Graham Scroggie
Peace and energy do not always go together, though they should. Energy need be none the less energetic if it be peaceful, nor peace the less peaceful if it be energetic. Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic. What we need is that our glassy sea be mingled with fire, and that our fire shall have for its home a glassy sea. Too often the water puts out the fire, or the fire dries up the water; but in every true life these dwell helpfully together. Why should peace exclude passion, and why should passion destroy peace? Why should one moral quality triumph at the expense of another? Yet, too often it is so. Sometimes our sea is not glassy, but tempest tossed; and sometimes…
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Why Are We so Moved by the Plight of the Notre Dame? | The Conversation
Scrolling through news of the Notre Dame fire on social media feeds was like watching a real-time archive of grief. Why do some heritage places elicit more […]
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Review: ‘Mary Magdalene’ Is a Faith Movie that Will Actually Challenge You | RELEVANT Magazine
The first thing about Mary Magdalene that sticks to you is its music. This movie doesn’t even sound like other faith-related stories. Instead of the swollen, saccharine, birdsong-esque instrumentals of…
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Heaven Will Solve Our Problems–C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
“Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.
And, more than once, that impression which I can’t describe except by saying it’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”
C.S. Lewis, from A Grief Observed
If Your House Is On Fire – The Sun Magazine
Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change
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Kathleen Dean Moore Moral Ground:an Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
7 Assumptions About Universalism That Are So Often Wrong | Matthew Distefano
Patristic Universalism
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St. John One: One 