Indeed, it is cases of failure on our part to take action to prevent it - or failure to take action by the social services or child-protection agencies - that demand justification. To treat the suffering caused by child-abuse lightly would be to show a sense of disproportion when confronte...
Your Transition from Death to Life Entering the Promised Land by fording the Jordan remains a timeless metaphor for crossing over from death to spiritual life (see Hebrews 4:1-10). As Joshua pointed out after crossing the Jordan, the samegrace of Godthat redeemed them was the grace that le...
The first vacancy in the presidency had occurred more than half a century after the ratification of the Constitution.15The document had provided for the Vice President to accede to the presidency: “In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inabilit...
Letters to heaven and back April 24, 2011 at 4:56 pm | Posted in Long Blogs | 1 Comment Tags: colon cancer, death, family, family resemblance, father, feeling lost, grandmother, great aunt, grief, journal, Letters from the Goddess, life, loss, music, musings, parenthood, praying, ...
The Shakespeare quote actually goes“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Which I interpret to mean that our imaginations are powerful but limited given our upbringing and environment. Therefore, angels, spirits, and ghosts are real, even...
Oliveira—who was born in 1908, made his first films in the 1930s, and was artistically restricted for years by the Portuguese dictatorship—continued to direct until his death at age 106. He had perhaps his most productive period after 1990 with such films as Vale Abraão (1993; Abraham’...
“President-elect Biden, he just said, you know, ‘in heaven it’s probably all nurses,’” Lori Marie Key told CNN’s Dana Bash. “I just laughed,” Key continued. “I know that expression meant that in the nursing community, we are a compassionate population of people, just to hear...
“President-elect Biden, he just said, you know, ‘in heaven it’s probably all nurses,’” Lori Marie Key told CNN’s Dana Bash. “I just laughed,” Key continued. “I know that expression meant that in the nursing community, we are a compassionate population of people, just ...
Moreover, contrary to Gee, the Egyptians had no theological concept of 'the time of the resurrection'. Rather, their hope was that after death they would be revivified by being re-integrated into the cycles of nature and cosmos (Frankfort 1948, 117), and their religion contained numerous ...
hillside, where, dotted here and there like grazing sheep, you could see the stones of the burying-ground, where the inhabitants of the glen took their final rest, as if their friends had left them as near heaven as possible, and safe from the floods that used once to sweep the valley...