Albert Schweitzer; Theologian, Musician, Medical Missionary ———— Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Example is leadership… Example is not the main thing in influencing […]
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Pictured above: Celtic Cross, Ireland ****************************************** Bringing Christ to the Irish Who am I, Lord, that you should appear to me and call me, so that today among the barbarians I might constantly and everywhere exalt and magnify your name, not only in good fortune, but even in affliction? Whatever befalls me,
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Pictured above: Ruins of St. Patrick’s Church, Wexford, Ireland *************************************** Patrick Escapes, Guided by a Voice And it was there that one night in my sleep I heard a voice saying to me, “…Soon you will depart for your home country.” And again, a short time later, there was a voice saying: “Behold,
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The following introduction to St. Patrick is adapted from the author information at http://www.ccel.org The meditations that follow are an edited paraphrase of the text of The Confession of St. Patrick also at that website. Saint Patrick (420?-March 17, 493?), the patron saint of Ireland, was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain
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Sarah Weinstein was 11 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Sarah, an American, was living in the Philippines where her father was working. Japan was on a mission to conquer and rule all of Southeast Asia, and now, since America’s Pacific fleet was destroyed at Pearl Harbor, an invasion of the Philippines
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March 4, 1865; 149 years ago today. Within five weeks after Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address the Civil War would be over (April 9th), and six days after that, Lincoln would be dead. This political speech, one of the greatest in American history, is worth meditating on in the context of our Christian faith.
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(continued…) “If you don’t straighten out, Jimmy, God will deal with you,” Grandma Klobuchar would always say. Many years later, after grandma was long dead and ‘Little Jimmy’ had become ‘Famous Jim Klobuchar,’ he still had a lot of straightening out to do. In one area of his life, he was a successful
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Jim Klobuchar was a newspaper columnist for the Minneapolis Tribune from the mid-1960’s to the late 1990’s. He is now 85 years old, retired, and living in the Twin Cities. His daughter Amy represents Minnesota in the United States Senate. Klobuchar has written many books describing his active life and many adventures. He
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A touching image of Pope Francis tenderly embracing a severely disfigured man in St Peter’s Square has gone viral. Pope Francis kissed and blessed the man, whose face was covered in boils, after his general address at the Vatican on Wednesday. The pope laid his hands on the head of the
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By Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1939), Letters and Papers from Prison, pages 346-7, edited by Eberhard Bethge, copyright 1953, SCM Press, Ltd. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young theologian of great promise. He became active in the Confessing Church movement in Germany which took a stand against the Nazi government in the 1930’s. His activities made him
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