finding it more practical or cheaper to handle ashes instead of a body. Others might be squeamish about the idea of decay and are attracted to the "sanitizing" effect of flames, while some people find it fitting
The 2024 Formula 1 season wraps up this weekend in Abu Dhabi and in many ways nothing is different, but at the same time, everything has changed. First off, you have Max Verstappen. The Dutch driver wrapped up his fourth straight title a couple weeks ago. But his team, Red Bull, has...
Contrary to some research that has found an 30 limit to the amount of exercise that is healthy, the researchers found that there was 31 no limit to the longevity (长寿) benefits of exercise. Even the small group of people who got 10 times the amount of exercise recommended by the federal...
The Magician Takes a Bow How many people can say they were there the night the trick went wrong and the Magician died on stage? Certainly, that first morning on the strip—dazed gamblers blinking in the rising light, the ambulance come and gone, with the smell of gunpowder lingering in th...
And yet, I’m glad that was her last request, and I’m glad we hung them. Those little paper eggs, as silly as it might seem, are symbols of a profound faith that everyone in that room held: the faith in a resurrection, the faith that even though every single body in that room ...
She also misses the point of Christ the King Sunday. The day is one of the newest liturgical days. Invented during the WWII era in opposition to Nazism and Fascism, the day was to remind us that God will be victorious over every evil ideology. In the resurrection of Christ, Jesus has ...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
Is there resurrection in your life? Had you have stories of feeling like something was dead and now it's alive? That's a form of faith and we have this huge symbol for that. That we go, this is the thing we believe in the most, that the divine still is sort of seeps in. When...
I grew up in the first Palestinian uprising, and I. I didn't realize how abnormal my life until many years later when I started meeting people like you, Chris, who would tell me their school years are different than my school years. Like my mom gave me an onion when I went to schoo...
“People ask me sometimes, ‘Why did you pick Serrastretta to start the synagogue in Calabria,” she says, noting that there were many places in the Italian region where she could “initiate a Jewish community and a synagogue.” “Once again, I think Serrastretta chose me. Because this is...