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2014-01-24T18:29:30-04:00

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Question Friday: What’s Your Favorite Christian Painting or Sculpture?

Last updated on: January 24, 2014 at 6:29 pm By Billy Kangas

This week a reader asks: What is your favorite Christian painting or sculpture? This is a really really hard question to answer. There are a lot of factors that go into my appreciation of any piece of art that it’s hard to say that I have a definitive “best” piece that I love. What I will do is give you a few things that I look for in art, and an example of a work that I think exemplify that element... Read more

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2014-01-23T19:24:55-04:00

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Discussion: What makes something a liturgical abuse?

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 7:24 pm By Billy Kangas

I ran into a fantastic bit of liturgical satire at Eye of the Tiber today. It got me thinking about how many things I have seen over the years in worship that have made me shake my head in dismay. So I have a question for you. What makes a practice a liturgical abuse? Can you give examples? Let me know in the comments below! Read more

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2014-01-23T17:19:17-04:00

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Image: Regional Cardinal Changes over the Last Decade

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 5:19 pm By Billy Kangas

Recently I posted a graphic comparing cardinals to catholic populations… but all of that has changed since the Pope recently appointed some new cardinals around the world. Here are the updated numbers! (with some of the numbers from the past as a reference) via RNS-CARDINALS-GRAPHIC2a | Religion News Service. Read more

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2014-01-23T01:10:35-04:00

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Monks stand in prayer between police and demonstrators

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 1:10 am By Billy Kangas

I was moved by this display of liturgical action [Wednesday] morning, monks from the Kiev-Caves Lavra Fr. Gabriel, Fr. Melchisedek, and Fr. Ephraim stood on Grushevsky Street in Kiev with a cross and icons, between the demonstrators and the Ukrainian special police force “Berkut”, and stopped the conflict. They entered the arena as peace-makers, and not in support of one side or the other. Although they were invited to join the “people”, the fathers only prayed and sang the Paschal... Read more

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2014-01-22T11:37:45-04:00

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Take aways from “A Year of Biblical Womanhood”

Last updated on: January 22, 2014 at 11:37 am By Billy Kangas

A couple weeks ago I read through Rachel Held Evans latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. Already the fact that I have read the book has sparked a degree of debate among my friends and followers, all of whom seem to have strong opinions about her (and few of whom have actually read her books). For those who don’t know Rachel she is a popular voice in evangelicalism, and has written a number of controversial articles about women, sex,... Read more

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2014-01-21T22:04:00-04:00

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Colbert: The Audacity of Pope

Last updated on: January 21, 2014 at 10:04 pm By Billy Kangas

Even since Francis’ election last year Stephen Colbert has made sure Pope Francis is getting attention for all the little things that make us love our pontiff. Last night on the Colbert Report he highlighted a couple of the latest headlines: 1. Francis recently encouraged breast feeding telling mothers, “If they [your babies] are hungry Feed them.” 2. Francis has also laid out guidelines around sainthood to prevent wealthy donors from skewing canonization away from less affluent campaigns. It’s all done with... Read more

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2014-01-16T17:10:12-04:00

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Hunger: the greatest risk to health in the world today

Last updated on: January 16, 2014 at 5:10 pm By Billy Kangas

As many of you are aware, hunger is a major issue in the world today. Caritas Internationalis has declared this year as a year dedicated to establishing food as a human right around the world and is using the year as the starting point in a push to end hunger around the world by 2025. I myself have committed to giving all my donations this year to organizations working to end hunger in the world today. I encourage you to... Read more

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2014-01-10T14:40:13-04:00

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Cardinals Compared to Catholics

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 2:40 pm By Billy Kangas

Jim Martin posted this on Facebook today and I found it to be fascinating. The disproportion in Italy makes sense because of the history of the region and the evolution of what a Cardinal is, however I did find it fascinating how few there were in Latin America compared to the plethora we have in the USA and Canada. It would be interesting to see in the total population and wealth of a region have a stronger correlation to number... Read more

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2014-01-10T13:34:35-04:00

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Question Friday: What is Christian Philosophy?

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 1:34 pm By Billy Kangas

This week’s question: I’m interested in learning more about the Christian philosophy. I do not identify myself as a religious person but I’m very philosophical, which consists of reading philosophy everyday as well as considering going to graduate school for philosophy (ethics). Anyways I would really appreciate a general overall look at what Christianity really is as well a more in depth view of its philosophical, not religious, understanding. Is there any possible bible books or excerpts I can look... Read more

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2014-01-08T10:56:30-04:00

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Why I write my Congressional Representatives

Last updated on: January 8, 2014 at 10:56 am By Billy Kangas

The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most moving parables told by Jesus. It tells the story of a man beaten and left for dead on the side of the road by a group of robbers. After being ignored by religious leaders from his own country, the man is eventually assisted by a despised Samaritan, who binds his wounds and carries him to an inn where he is able to recover. This is all done at great... Read more

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