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The first six chapters of Here If You Need Me are great. Anyone else read this book ( Read more... )

Marlene and I have actually had a few opportunities over the last few months to get nights away on our own. On one occasion, my folks came to town and lent us their hotel room while they stayed in our apartment with the kids. We were watching tv in that room when we saw a few scenes from this movie with a great cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones as a ( Read more... )

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Evidently over 9,000 blogs will post about poverty today as part of an effort (supported by, among other folks, the U.S. association of Catholic charities, from whom I heard about it) to raise awareness and stimulate people to think about poverty as a soluble problem.

I'm not sure what I think about this idea of ending poverty - when goal ( Read more... )

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I get discouraged fairly frequently. ( Read more... )

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So I read The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. The authors, Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, are a married couple who work together as journalists. They won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their coverage of Mexico's criminal justice system. While doing some ( Read more... )

Today is George Herbert day: the Church of England selected this day to be a "lesser feast" in honor of a favorite son. Yes, he was yet another rich white guy, born into the cultural elite (his mom was buddies with John Donne), but for the last three years of his life this former member of Parliament worked as a country priest, giving communion ( Read more... )

Two journalists from the Washington Post dug up the story referenced below, and published it in a book called The Prison Angel. (More on the book later ( Read more... )

Philosophers of science have discovered that it is difficult, and may prove impossible, to provide an understanding of science that meets the following criteria ( Read more... )

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Jesus promised, one way or another, to stick around and continue his ministry through his followers for the rest of human history. Did he keep his word?

Philip Hallie, in his book Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm, relates the story of Dr. Roger Le Forestier. I would like to repeat it in detail, but the most spectacular chapter of his ( Read more... )