Preaching the news

7 Jun 2009

Preaching the News for Sunday

Transatlantic tragedy | The wheels come off | Don’t mine us | To tell the truth | Working on commission

Transatlantic tragedy

This Sunday's reading from the Letter to the Romans tells us that we are children and heirs with Christ "if only we suffer with him." Loved ones of passengers due in on overnight flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil suffered stunning news ...

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The wheels come off

In this Sunday's reading from the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses marvels at God's creative activity in the world, asking, "Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of?" Americans who grew up in an era when General Motors  ...

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Don’t mine us

In this Sunday's gospel Jesus promises to be with the disciples "always, until the end of the age." The Dongria Kondh, an indigenous tribal group that has lived in a mountainous area of India for unknown ages ...

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To tell the truth

"We are all children of God," Saint Paul reminds us this Sunday in the reading from the Letter to the Romans. In interviews previewing the speech he will make Thursday in Cairo to the Arab world, President Barack Obama suggested ...

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Working on commission

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations" is the great commission in this Sunday's gospel. In ages past that often meant lengthy and dangerous journeys and much hardship for missionaries. Now there is the Internet to help spread the Word.

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Quote of the week

"The government is collapsing before the country's eyes."

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Fact of the week

According to a recent survey, 51 percent of Israelis favor an immediate strike on Iran's nuclear sites, while 49 percent say Israel should wait for the outcome of possible negotiations between the Obama administration and Iran.

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