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  • Falafel Crusted Bloomin’ Onion Recipe

    Even if you’ve never been to an Outback Steakhouse (confession: I have not), you know what a bloom’ onion is, and you know it’s delicious. The onion is cut all down the sides, while keeping the bottom intact, breaded and deep fried, allowing all those individual little onion”petals” to get

  • Tradition Is an Elusive Term

    As strange as it may seem, “tradition” is an elusive term. Perhaps we are so deeply formed by the plurality of traditions we embody in the twenty-first century that we take their meanings for granted. Or maybe when we consider what tradition means we discover it is a concept too

  • Friday’s Seven: ‘How Churches can be Better Equipped to Help Survivors of Domestic Violence’ and More

    Here are seven articles which I believe may interest readers.  https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2022/february/how-churches-can-be-better-equipped-to-help-survivors-of-do.htmlhttps://outreachmagazine.com/features/service-features/70403-why-the-rich-give-the-least.htmlhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/february-web-only/russell-moore-deconstruction-faith-church-dangerous-form.htmlhttps://churchleaders.com/outreach-missions/277712-15-ideas-that-will-spark-extraordinary-church-growth.htmlhttps://joshweidmann.com/does-yelling-make-me-a-bad-or-unfit-parent/https://kainosproject.com/2021/09/15/common-sin/https://chucklawless.com/2022/02/question-is-your-church-a-disciplemaking-church/ Anglicans Ablaze

  • February 13, 2022 – Burned Out

    Colleen Montgomery, Salem, VA Warm-up Question How would you define the feeling of burnout? Have you or someone you know experienced burnout?  Burned Out Americans across the country are resigning from their jobs in mass numbers. Though you may not be in the working world yet, chances are that you

  • Community ministry grows hope

    Editor’s note: Scott Seeke is pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Livonia, Mich., where Dennis Walker is a member. The congregation has supported the Micah 6 Community with volunteers and donations since 2019.  Dylan Pyeatt and Coleman Yoakum stood with their real estate agent on the front porch of a duplex at 32 Newberry St.

  • The Surprising Latter-day Saint Connections in Hawaii

    Cover image: Queen Liliuokalani. To read more from Daniel, visit his blog: Sic Et Non. Understandably, for most tourists visiting Hawaii, its beaches, palm trees, gentle tropical breezes, romantic music, and beautiful sunsets that draw them.  “The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean,” Mark Twain called

  • Moed Katan 28

    It’s probably a given that most of us would like to avoid death — not only because we enjoy life, but because we worry that dying itself will be painful. The rabbis worried about that too. On today’s daf we read two descriptions of what death might feel like, and