You eat directly the good God; you feed directly from God. And there’s nothing closer than touching. There is nothing closer than food. Than that incorporation, than the incarnation of food. —Charles Péguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc, 35 The accomplishments of William Cavanaugh’s essay on
Maurine Elder Richard G. Scott said, “Help from the Lord always follows eternal law. The better you understand that law, the easier it is to receive His help.” The chapters that we are studying today demonstrate just that. Scot Hello, we’re Scot and Maurine Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine’s
May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) Awareness Day. In 2021, as a follow-up to the 2016 Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, the ELCA Church council adopted the Declaration to American Indian and Alaska Native People by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It reads, in part:
Today’s Reading: Read Psalm 32 Have you ever had good news that you couldn’t wait to tell someone else? What was it? (Give a chance to share) Maybe a new brother or sister was going to be born? Or maybe you found out you were going to Disney World and
3 Summer Program Ideas to Engage Your Community Summer is on the horizon, and that means routines often get tossed out the window. Keeping the community engaged in faith can feel like wrangling cats. Worry not! Summer is not only a time to do creative fundraising, it’s also an opportunity
I should begin with explaining how, following Bernard Lonergan, I distinguish the medieval from the modern ideals of science. There are two elements at work in the controversy over the supernatural, one “medieval” and the other “modern.” The first, predominating element is metaphysical, concerned with ends, natures, powers, and orders.
For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. Sooner or later, one day, this pounding action will cease of its own accord, and the blood will begin to run towards the body’s lowest point, where it will collect in a small