When is God a smash on Broadway and when is the divine a cosmic flop?
Day: May 3, 2013
Happy birthday, Søren
Søren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday is May 5th. Jeffery Frank says that his greatest contribution may be how we communicate today.
Prayer and the focused imagination
T.H. Luhrmann describes meeting people who had an auditory experience of God. Were they crazy or more intensely prayerful? She speculates that prayer both guides and disciplines the imagination.
Suicide among men rose in the last decade
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday.
Abundant hope can overcome climate despair
The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) committed to “leading a conversion of epic scale, a metanoia, or communal spiritual movement away from sin and despair toward the renewal and healing of all creation.”
A Lukan sandwich
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