A. Hesychasm refers to
1. An eastern church tradition of quiet mystical prayer2. A heresy concerning Christs divinity originating with the third-century biblical critic Hesychius 3. An early iconoclastic movement supporting the...
Scientists at the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva are homing in on the Higgs bosonthe so-called God particle.
The cosmic building block promises to fill in the last piece of the puzzle on how forces and particles in the...
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.St. Catherine of Siena, 14th c.Canadian Anglicans are increasingly taking to heart St. Catherines sound advice. After all, what can be more certain than death and taxesand almost always in...
A lot of people think they dont need a will. Wrong.
Thats one of the most common misconceptions around estate planning, according to Pamela Earle, a lawyer in St. Johns, Nfld. If you dont, under the laws of intestacy, your assets will...
Some people prefer to bypass the cost and time of the law office altogether and complete their wills on their own with fill-in-the-blanks kits you can purchase at business supply stores and online for less than $30 and complete in half...
Dennis Gruendings recently released Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life examines the growing competition between progressives and conservatives of faith for political power and influence.
With the...
A lot of people think they dont need a will. Wrong.
Thats one of the most common misconceptions around estate planning, according to Pamela Earle, a lawyer in St. Johns, Nfld. If you dont, under the laws of intestacy, your assets will...
The couple lived in a double room in a seniors home in a small prairie town. They had recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Now, the wife was dying and as the parish priest, I had been called. Across the divide between their...
It is harvest time for strawberries in the northern Philippine town of La Trinidad, so strawberry farmer Alice Rivera will start repaying a loan extended by a Geneva-based ecumenical church loan fund.
This is what we appreciate ...we can...
Beauty will save the world is a saying attributed to Dostoevsky.Yet given all that fragments our world, it seems a bold, counter-intuitive claim. Paul reminds us, God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is...
Crete is thirty miles south of Chicago. I used to pass through it on the way to the Claretian’s high school seminary. It is a small, rather rural community, intent on maintaining its small town...
This year’s Associated Church Press Convention, May 6-8 in Washington, D.C., promises to be one of the best, and the location offers cultural riches beyond price, but for many of our colleagues in faith communications, convention workshops provide the height of professional training.
In addition to the usual popular editorial and design tracks, a special emphasis this year will be on surviving and thriving in a shrunken economy and evolving industry.
Senate Chaplain Barry Black is scheduled to lead the ACP's opening worship at National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. the evening of May 6.
On June 27, 2003, Rear Admiral Barry C. Black (Ret.) was elected the 62nd Chaplain of the Senate. He started his work on July 7, 2003. Prior to Capitol Hill, Chaplain Black served in the U.S. Navy for over twenty-seven years, ending his distinguished career as the Chief of Navy Chaplains. The Senate elected its first chaplain in 1789.
Noted journalist Cokie Roberts is scheduled to deliver the keynote luncheon address May 6 at the upcoming Associated Church Press annual convention in Washington, D.C.
