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Religion

Anxiety-free living

In Luke 12:22-25 you will read some very familiar phrases. Phrases like ‘do not be anxious for your life’, ‘consider the ravens’, ‘consider the lilies’, ‘seek the kingdom and these things shall be added unto you’, where your treasure is there your heart will be’. This text is ...

And then Jesus came

Matt 9:9-13 The money was good, but was the job worth it? Matthew had a loathsome job--working for Rome, taxing his fellow Jews. Tax collectors were social outcasts. Devout Jews avoided them because they were usually dishonest. The job carried no salary. They were expected to make their ...

Only one way to salvation?

I remember a discussion while still in seminary, as I was training for pastoral ministry. Our professor posed the question to our small group – “is Jesus the only way to salvation”? There were about 10 people in our group and only two answered, “yes” to that question. The sad thing ...

What’s going on when the Virgin Mary appears and statues weep?

By Mathew Schmalz College of the Holy Cross The Conversation Claims of appearances of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been common in Catholicism. And now they’re going to get a closer look – but on a worldwide scale. The Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, or PAMI, ...

Religion Briefs

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Mexican Spanish, a unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers

HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — On a spring Saturday afternoon, two “hermanos” knelt to pray in the chapel of their Catholic brotherhood of St. Isidore the Farmer, nestled by the pine forest outside this hamlet in a high mountain valley. Fidel Trujillo and Leo Paul Pacheco’s words resounded in ...