By Bonnie Anderson and Dan Webster Food fights can get pretty messy, but this film, produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey is one Dreamworks product where the mess is downplayed and overcome by personal dignity, unspoken forgiveness and a “can’t we all just get along” appearance where food is the common denominator. Steven Spielberg […]
Day: August 23, 2014
From cheers to jeers
Psalm 146, 147 (Morning) Psalm 111, 112, 113 (Evening) Job 4:1-6,12-21 Revelation 4:1-11
Sanctuary movement of the ’80s springs to new life in Arizona
From the Arizona Republic:
Book explores U.S. chaplain’s ministry to Nazi criminals
From Religion News Service: He was a minister to monsters. That’s what Tim Townsend writes of Henry Gerecke, the unassuming Lutheran pastor from Missouri who shepherded six of the most notorious Nazis to the gallows in “Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis.”
Giles Fraser: How to rid the world of religious violence
Giles Fraser notes in the Guardian that “the history of religious belief is a history of horrendous violence: intolerance of others, burnings and lynchings, religious wars in which millions have died, torture, persecution.” He writes:
The ministry of embattled Christians in North Korea
Doug Wallach, a student at Princeton University, writes at the Huffington Post about the plight and ministry of Christians in North Korea, who make up a tiny but determined portion of the country’s population:
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