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2016-05-15T14:57:01-04:00

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Mary, the Trinity’s Plus One

Last updated on: May 15, 2016 at 2:57 pm By Nancy Rockwell

What would the Trinity be without Mary? The oldest Christian traditions in the world don’t even try to separate them. Catholics. The Orthodox: Russian, Greek, Serbian, Ethiopian, Armenian, Coptic, the beleaguered Syrian, and probably a dozen more varieties. In all of these, and they are the majority of Christians, Mary is the Trinity’s partner. Mary is the Trinity’s Plus One. The Protestant world, mainline and evangelical, and the Pentecostal world, have produced mind-numbing tomes on the nature of the Trinity... Read more

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2016-05-13T18:01:22-04:00

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George Zimmerman’s Gun

Last updated on: May 13, 2016 at 6:01 pm By Nancy Rockwell

Lukas Maverick Greyson / Shutterstock.com[/caption] George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin because his ‘fear’ was a legitimate right to shoot to kill, has put his gun up for auction on the internet. His describes the gun as ‘Used’ and as the weapon he fired to defend himself against his aggressor (Zimmerman actually attacked Trayvon). He also calls the gun a piece of Americana, of such historical importance that, he claims, the Smithsonian was considering buying it for... Read more

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2016-05-09T09:03:14-04:00

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Fire Baptism

Last updated on: May 9, 2016 at 9:03 am By Nancy Rockwell

The footage from Fort McMurray is hellfire. A caravan of seven thousand souls in three thousand cars drives slowly through walls of fire shooting over a hundred feet into the air, charred tree trunks punctuating the scene, a carpet of small flames filling any chinks in the fire’s walls while smoldering embers shoot onto the road, the cars. Thick smoke blankets the sky and I wonder how the soldiers, directing the traffic, can breathe, and if what they are breathing... Read more

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2016-05-03T23:46:16-04:00

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Do You Believe in Miracles?

Last updated on: May 3, 2016 at 11:46 pm By Nancy Rockwell

To tell you the truth, talk about miracles makes me squirm. An ongoing spiritual argument starts raging in my soul, and all the voices are loud. I deal with this by looking for an Off Button, which can be any number of ways of changing the subject. The argument is between my belief and my horror at my belief. And both are engaged when people tell me about their miracles. There’s usually something triumphant in those testimonies. And I rarely... Read more

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2016-05-02T16:36:52-04:00

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A Shared Sense – Jesus’ Prayer

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm By Nancy Rockwell

Jesus’ final prayer is for Oneness. Our unity, for which he beseeches God that everyone, all who have ever known of him or ever will, will be embraced in a deep accord, a mystical union in which Jesus and God will also dwell. They will be in us and we in them. Thinking about what that means is like trying to capture the wind. It means nothing to the mind, and everything to the body. Its meaning lies in what... Read more

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2016-04-30T09:32:47-04:00

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Trump Deals the Cards

Last updated on: April 30, 2016 at 9:32 am By Nancy Rockwell

The Woman Card was slapped down on the national table by the Master Dealer, Donald Trump, whose vast fortunes (he mentions them in every speech) have a tap root in Las Vegas, where his name gleams gold on the top of a large hotel. Trump is a Master Dealer. He tells us this himself. And he has cultivated this profile in years of TV shows about himself as a business tycoon. He’s been dealing cards this whole political season. Not... Read more

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2016-04-27T15:03:53-04:00

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Where Does Evil Come From?

Last updated on: April 27, 2016 at 3:03 pm By Nancy Rockwell

The question about evil opens this hour of Morgan Freeman’s peripatetic exploration of religious cultures. Within the question is a plaintive note, but he changes that to umbrage by rephrasing it: why should evil exist at all, if the world is under divine control? A man who seemingly can’t sit still, Freeman travels more than Rick Steves, PBS’ longtime travel guy, who never tries to fit six continents into one hour. But for all the frequent flier miles, Freeman doesn’t... Read more

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2016-04-24T18:08:58-04:00

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The Word That Defies Death: Shakespeare and Jesus

Last updated on: April 24, 2016 at 6:08 pm By Nancy Rockwell

“Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.”(John 14:23-24) Jesus, according to John, said this. He said it after Easter and before Ascension, and he said it about himself, about God, and about the promised Spirit,... Read more

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2016-04-20T10:21:39-04:00

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As It Was in the Beginning – Stories of Wonder and Possibility

Last updated on: April 20, 2016 at 10:21 am By Nancy Rockwell

Morgan Freeman takes a whirl-wind look at creation tales in this Sunday’s segment of The Story of God, jetting from his childhood church in Mississippi to Jerusalem to Cairo to Rome to Tikal, the ruined Mayan city, to the banks of the Ganges and even to the Australian Outback, as he looks at the meaning and roots of origin tales. He begins his search by for Eden in the Mesopotamian Valley, visiting archeological ruins of 9000 year old farm communities,... Read more

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2016-04-17T14:27:06-04:00

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Earth Day – The Last Supper?

Last updated on: April 17, 2016 at 2:27 pm By Nancy Rockwell

“Love should be nurtured and encouraged,” preaches Rev. Sydney Chambers, Vicar –and part-time detective- of Grantchester, “not manipulated to serve our own purposes. Love is a treasure . . .” His words are for us, viewers who have just witnessed the manipulations of a penniless wife who engineered the murder of her brutal husband (using two vulnerable men who adore her to do the deed, one of whom kills her instead) and of an unhappy rich woman who has married... Read more

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