A season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, andgrassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal,transform, and empower our lives and our communities.
How responding to panhandlers has become one of the most delightful spiritual disciplines.
Fascinating piece
A would-be Koran-burner in Amarillo, Texas was foiled by a 23-year-old Texas skateboarder named Jacob Isom, who was among a group of people protesting a planned burning on Saturday.
The [Proposition 8] decision, though an instant landmark in American legal history, is more than that.
Each year my church puts on a weeklong camp. You can read about it here. and you can read about my first thoughts as I joined this Unitarian Universalist church here in Austin, Texas.
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excerpt:"In the frantic last hours of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's command in Afghanistan, when the world wondered what was racing through the general's mind, he reached out to an unlikely corner of his life: the author of the book "Three Cups of Tea," Greg Mortenson.
Let's get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to the unwarranted certainties that atheism and theism offer.
In an article for the National Review titled "Stall, Baby, Stall" at the beginning of April Sarah Palin said,
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excerpt:"Our family just joined a church. This may not sound like a radical statement -- not here in America, arguably the churchiest nation in the world. But hearing these words from my own mouth feels about as natural as, "I've just joined the Marines."