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• How We Talk About “The Poor” Matters

  
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  I’m guest posting for J. R. Goudeau today for her Questions of Travel series. Here’s a little sample of my post about how we talk about “the poor.” Who are “the poor”? I don’t think I know who “the poor” really are. I’ve often spoken of them imprecisely and, most importantly, impersonally. ...
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• The Convenient Constitution…only for US not them

  
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  Is it a dusty document or a living will left by the men who wrote it and the states that ratified it? Does it change and get updated with the times or is it written in stone forever. Amendments come and go so it can be changed and re-ratified by the states. In light of [...]
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• Blessed are the Merciful

  
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  Church Service in West, TX Last weeks bombings in Boston and fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX , along with a sudden death in our church fellowship have sent many of us who are Legacy Church reeling in sadness. Loss is a part of life , but we stagger out of them after events shatter what we ...
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• You are not blessed with stress

  
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  Or why I might not remember your name Stress is not a blessing Something we’ve inherited from our Protestant ancestors is an anachronistic attachment to labor, stress, and a propensity to die early. Probably from a heart attack. Last I looked, there are only nine Beatitudes . I wouldn’t be surprised if some ...
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• Israel – Sea Of Inspiration, A Clip From Israel’s Pavilion At Korea Expo 2012

  
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  A Clip Produced and fillmed by Albatross. This one was part of Israel’s Pavilion at Korea Expo 2012 http://www.albatross.co.il/ The Albatross photo-stock archive is one of the largest and richest collections of aerial and ground photographs shot in Israel and around the world. The product of over twenty-five ...
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• Crucifying Morality

  
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  No one could possibly claim that the Beatitudes (see Matthew 5:1-12) are overlooked or underappreciated. They have been the subject of countless books and sermon series. But this is not to say that the Beatitudes have been widely understood and properly taught. As often as not they have suffered from moralization, ...
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• What Happened to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

  
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  He came to America when he was about nine years old and something happened to him over those years. Larry Aaronson (A retired history teacher at the high school Dzhokhar (pronounced Joe-HARR) attended) says “It’s completely out of his character,” he says. “Everything about him was wonderful. He was completely ...
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• We carry on. We race. We strive.

  
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  The Obamas visited Boston today for a memorial service: The president and first lady attended an interfaith service for the victims of the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Below are some of the President’s remarks at the interfaith service held at the Boston Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He ...
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• Confessing The Beatitudes

  
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  2011–2012  Horizons  Bible Study. Illustrations by Ann Kim Confessing the Beatitudes by Margaret Aymer http://horizons.pcusa.org/biblestudies/1112beatitudes/beatitudes.htm T he Beatitudes are some of the most beloved teachings of Jesus, yet they may well be some of the most pointed. We may miss ...
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• Look for the helpers. You’ll always find people who are helping.

  
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  While contemplating the depth and breath of the criminal act of yesterdays bombing and while quietly weeping over the deaths and the maimings it is difficult to find good stories, uplifting stories about normal people doing extraordinary quiet things in the background. As Mr. Rogers used to say about horrible images ...
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• Tonite, We Are Boston

  
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  This is a short reflection as I watched the video of the horrendous, inhuman act that took place in Boston on Patriot Day in that city. The horrific injuries captured by cameras are already seared into my brain. The point I would like to make is look what we as a people do when there [...]
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• Posing for Eternity- Pictures Speak!

  
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  (THE BALCONY) “Smile…say…cheeeeeze!” That’s what we say to the people in front of the camera just before we “click” it and it is stored seemingly forever. The picture does not age, we do in a sort of reversal of The Picture of Dorian Gray. When we compare the picture with the real-life subject we can ...
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• Psalm 84 — The Blessedness of Assembly

  
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  This Psalm uses the language of love poetry; it has an “erotic intensity” (Robert Atler, The Book of Psalms, 297). “How lovely are your dwelling places,” the Psalmist exclaims. The term “lovely” is related to the Hebrew terms for “lover” and “lovemaking.” It describes the “love song” between ...
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