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Hyena Poop Reveals Wild Animals' 'Observation' Of Lent

2012-04-06T16:11:18Z

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 04/04/2012 08:32 PM EDT on LiveScience

Humans aren't the only ones who give up certai...

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Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard: Good Friday: Reliable Narrators

2012-04-07T01:38:42Z

We as by-standers of faith and/or followers of Christ? How do we take the narrative of the life of Jesus the Christ and weave it with our narratives?

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Can You Tailgate On Good Friday?

2012-04-06T17:37:33Z

MILWAUKEE — A Good Friday home opener posed a spiritual dilemma for some Catholic baseball fans in Milwaukee, who had to decide whether to absta...

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Bible Verses To Commemorate The Passion Of Christ

2012-04-06T02:52:11Z

The Stations of Cross (or Way of the Cross) is a series of 14 artistic images that depict the Passion of the Christ and His crucifixion. Many Catholic...

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Tony Jones: What Does Jesus' Crucifixion Solve?

2012-04-06T11:16:25Z

How is it that Jesus' death accomplishes the forgiveness of my sin? By what cosmic mechanism does that take place?

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David Lose: Is God Angry At You? A Good Friday Reflection

2012-04-06T08:40:09Z

This argument assumes God can't transcend our own moral limitations. Just because we may cry for justice and vengeance when we are wronged doesn't mean God will.

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Meg Pier: The Grandeur And Fanfare Of Malta's Good Friday Celebrations

2012-04-06T08:21:26Z

Scanning the faces of the multitude assembled, I saw that their countenances were reverential rather than delighted, and deeply moved more than amused; some had tears in their eyes.

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Roma Downey: Easter Brings the Promise of Life Renewed

2012-04-06T08:41:03Z

My own kids have loved Easter and the thrill of the Easter egg hunt, but they have also learned lessons along the way. As parents, it is our job to instill morals and values into our children. When they see us treat each other with kindness and respect, it leaves an imprint on them.

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Gavriel Brown: Occupy Faith: Prophets Over Profits

2012-04-05T15:04:24Z

Soon, we will recount the story of the Exodus, but today we recounted the greed that spiraled our nation into debt, our coasts into environmental disasters and our working poor into unaffordable health care.

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Matthew L. Skinner: "On The Night He Was Betrayed...": What Happened At The Last Supper?

2012-04-05T10:25:11Z

Jesus suggests that the Passover setting contributes additional significance to his coming death. Is God about to accomplish a new kind of deliverance?

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Rev. Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder: The Power Of "I'm Sorry"

2012-04-04T16:29:44Z

There is something powerful about saying "I'm sorry." Lent forces us to come to grips with the need to both give and receive apologies.

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Rev. Dr. Eric D. Barreto: Lent And Love: A Reflection On John 3:16

2012-04-03T14:38:17Z

In the end, we may find that in the light of God's love, we are mere toddlers. We're not sure of the words we speak. We're not sure we know what we mean when we say love.

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What Did Jesus Do On Holy Saturday?

2012-04-03T11:07:34Z

By Daniel Burke
Religion News Service

(RNS) Every Christian knows the story: Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter S...

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Elderly Married Couple Writes Pope's Good Friday Talk

2012-04-02T16:51:21Z

By Alessandro Speciale
Religion News Service

VATICAN CITY (RNS) An elderly married couple asked by Pope Benedict XVI to write the texts for the tr...

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Stephen Mansfield: Truly Understanding The Agony Of Crucifixion

2012-04-02T16:53:55Z

In the weeks before Easter, during the traditional season of Lent, Christians fix their hearts on the death of Jesus Christ. They reflect upon what he endured because they believe that it was redemptive.

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Penny Love Hoff: Lent, Sacrifice and Fitness

2012-04-02T12:34:58Z

I challenge you all to use this final phase of Lent to consider giving up one of your addictions, even if it's just for a few days. Four is the magic number for success with any new fitness regime. Day four is breakthrough day.

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Rev. Emily C. Heath: Between Sundays: Holy Week And The Importance Of Weekday Christians

2012-04-02T12:26:11Z

To me, the most comforting part of Holy Week is not the waving of triumphal palms on one Sunday morning, or the flowers and joyous hymns on the next. It's what happens in between.

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Lisa Hickman: Confessions Of A Mid-Lent Crisis

2012-04-01T01:57:47Z

Still, echoes of all those Lenten 'shoulds' reverberate through my mind and heart. If I am to strike 'discipline' from my theological lexicon, then what am I to do this Lent?

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Michele Somerville: Lent: A Reflection On The Sin of Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentencing

2012-03-30T16:44:16Z

When a life sentence stands between a child and redemption, it's a cross of sorrow we all bear. When we adults allow the penalty to get the best of an imprisoned child, we all lose.

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Rev. Tim Phillips: Lent: Fasting And Feasting

2012-03-29T10:27:25Z

So the celebration of Easter is not about giving up Lent -- just like Lent wasn't about giving up Easter. It is all part of the same holy rhythm of discerning enough and learning what life together really means.

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Rev. Tim Schenck: Lent: Saints Alive!

2012-03-28T11:55:17Z

A couple years ago I thought, why should college basketball fans have all the fun while we Christians sit around giving up chocolate? Thus Lent Madness was born.

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Melinda Wentzel: The Purple of Penance

2012-03-27T18:12:29Z

My injured toe is perhaps the most repulsive-looking appendage on the planet. But it's colorful. I'll give it that. Just in time for Easter, it's a feast of pigmentation.

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Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Did You Celebrate Hoodie Sunday?

2012-03-27T10:34:31Z

Wearing a hoodie may seem like a superficial thing we can do with our individual bodies, but if in doing so we show our solidarity as one body of humanity then I will don a hoodie.

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Kent Annan: My Hypocrisy, To Dust?

2012-03-27T10:30:14Z

My doubt, it will turn to dust. And so too my faith. Both proved right or wrong in their ways--either because it's all only dust, or because then we will see face to face. My sin, to dust. My hypocrisy, to dust.

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Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore: Mad For God: Palm Sunday On April Fools' Day

2012-03-24T21:04:00Z

But allow me a Lenten season confession of a penchant for the practical, the rational, and the empirical. I love science. I always have. Science does not depend on belief.

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