Preaching the news

22 Mar 2009

Preaching the News for Sunday

Bailing out a flood of anger | Qumran quandary | Pope promises Vatican will log on before speaking out in the future | Printless in Seattle, but Rocky Mountain high | Gimme shelter

Bailing out a flood of anger

This Sunday's reading from Second Chronicles speaks of the anger of the Lord being "inflamed" by the outrageous acts and "abominations" of the people. Public anger toward the wealthy and powerful recipients of federal bailout money surged this week ...

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Qumran quandary

In this Sunday's gospel Jesus tells Nicodemus that the verdict is in: God gave his only Son as a gift to the world but the people preferred darkness to light. A prominent Israeli scholar rocked the world of biblical scholarship this week ...

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Pope promises Vatican will log on before speaking out in the future

The reading from the Letter to the Ephesians this Sunday speaks of humanity's transgressions before God. Pope Benedict XVI late last week acknowledged "mistakes" in the way the Vatican lifted the excommunication ...

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Printless in Seattle, but Rocky Mountain high

If ever he forgets the Lord, the psalmist says this Sunday, "let my tongue be silenced." A longstanding voice in the world of print journalism fell silent this week with the final print edition of the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

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Gimme shelter

This Sunday the author of 2 Chronicles describes how the enemies of Israel "burnt the house of God." Some of those who have lost their houses due to foreclosure in the current financial crisis are turning to the nation's airports for shelter. ...

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Quote of the week

"Jesus could have been walking with Moses that day and I would have killed them."

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Fact of the week

The number of newspapers and other news outlets that have reporters covering Washington, D.C. dropped from 564 in 1985 to 160 in 2007.

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