Religion
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Sunday Night Journal — June 26, 2011 On my way to work Friday morning, crossing Mobile Bay, I saw something I’d only seen once before, though I’ve made that crossing twice every workday since 1992: a hawk of some kind with a fish in its claws, flying away toward its nest, or wherever they go…
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I assume anyone who would be interested knows exactly what I mean when I refer to "the Corapi mess." If you don't, Google something like "corapi black sheep dog" and you can quickly find out all you want to know (Daniel Nichols tells me he started getting thousands of hits when he put up a…
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—You’re not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. —There’s only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said. —Joyce, Ulysses
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Sunday Night Journal — June 12, 2011 I normally don't get involved in political or religious discussions on Facebook, because I'm "friends" with people who have strong views on all sides, and who needs more rancor in his life? I ventured into one a week or so ago, much against my better judgment, and then…
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More precisely, two reviews of books about Reformation England. I haven’t read either of the books, but the reviews are interesting in themselves. First, Craig Burrell on Eamon Duffy’s Fires of Faith, a study of the brief and tragic (from several points of view) reign of Mary Tudor. Like, I suppose, most Protestants (or at least…
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I mentioned that I had been out of town for a couple of days. On Sunday my wife and I went to St. Joseph’s Abbey (Benedictine) and Seminary in Covington, Louisiana, for a performance by the NOVA (New Orleans Vocal Arts) Chorale, in which my daughter Clare sings. Covington is across Lake Ponchartrain from New…
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Harold Camping is a very slow learner. Or maybe just really stubborn. Or, as I suggested before, full of pride.
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Sunday Night Journal — May 22, 2011 Now that May 21 has come and gone over the entire world and there can be no trace of hope that Harold Camping's predictions of the apocalypse will come true, most of the world, including me, is having a good laugh about it. But now that it's all…
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That seems to be the rationale for the media attention paid to the latest bit of very ordinary religious speculation on the part of Stephen Hawking. It's a tribute to the authority and prestige of science and scientists–much of it deserved–that a scientist's views on almost anything, no matter how far removed from his area…
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The vicar general of our archdiocese is going to Rome. Our loss, Rome's gain. His background–Alabama Protestant convert–is similar to mine, which of course I always like to find in a church where I sometimes feel a bit of a cultural and ethnic outsider. The high opinion of him mentioned in this news story is…
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