Preaching the news

16 Aug 2015

Preaching the News for Sunday

China’s currency syndrome | EPA creates toxic river | Number of uninsured in U.S. drops | Raise a toast to the oldest twins!

China’s currency syndrome

“The one who feeds on me will have life because of me,” Jesus promises in this Sunday’s gospel. China’s rapid economic growth in recent decades has fed economic growth . . .

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EPA creates toxic river

“Your faces may not blush with shame” when you “taste and see the goodness of the Lord,” the psalmist promises this Sunday. Leaders of the Environmental Protect Agency are red faced over a bungled mine clean-up in Colorado that unleashed . . .

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Number of uninsured in U.S. drops

“Watch carefully how you live,” counsels the reading from Ephesians this Sunday. These days such prudence includes carrying health insurance for the unexpected illness . . .

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Raise a toast to the oldest twins!

The wise counsel of the Book of Proverbs this Sunday includes this hearty advice: “Drink of the wine I have mixed! Forsake foolishness and you may live.” The world’s oldest living twins . . .

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Quote of the week

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

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Fact of the week

Eight percent of teens in the U.S., almost 1.5 million teens, are not in school and not working.

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