Pakistani army post buried by mountain of distrust | Justice Department throws the ebook at Apple, publishers | Rising from the ashes of Navy jet crash | Insurers not acting like good neighbors these days | Argentine baby survives icy morgue
The gospel for the second Sunday of Easter describes how fear kept the disciples behind locked doors and distrust kept Thomas from believing. An avalanche that buried 138 people at a military base in a remote Himalayan region . . .
In the aftermath of the Resurrection the community of believers was “of one heart and mind,” this Sunday’s first reading tells us. Several years ago major book publishers were of one mind about the potential threat of electronic book publishing to their bottom lines . . .
The psalmist’s words this Sunday, “I was hard pressed and was falling, but the Lord helped me," could have been uttered by two U.S. Navy jet pilots who survived a spectacular crash . . .
“In a time of need,” says Alice Camille in this Sunday's Exploring the Word, most people have found that someone was there to give them a glimpse of God’s compassion. Homeowners hit with property damage from natural disasters are not receiving much compassion from insurance companies . . .
In the Acts of the Apostles this Sunday we are told that “with great power the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.” During Holy Week a grieving Argentine couple bore witness to a powerful resurrection-like experience . . .
The average American consumes the paper equivalent of five and a half 40-foot trees every year. The largest per-capita user of paper is Belgium, where translations of EU documents into 23 languages result in the usage of 8.5 trees per person.