Religion

What Muslims hear at Friday prayers [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,411903,00.html]. Summarizing excerpt: > Are these words of hatred and discrimination really representative of the thousands upon thousands of Friday prayers that millions of Muslims around the world attend each week? And what

For our Eastern Orthodox brethren who are celebrating Easter today: > The whole man would not have been saved, unless he had taken upon himself the whole man. Origen > On Easter Day all of us who were imprisoned for religious convictions were united in the one joy of Christ.

I snapped a 40-year streak yesterday: I didn't attend services on Good Friday. As long as I can remember, I've attended Good Friday services and always found them among the most edifying of the year. When I was a kid, my Lutheran church held seven

"Christ, the new Adam, you entered the kingdom of death to release all the just since the beginning of the world [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=452#respond], may all who lie dead in sin hear your voice and rise to life." Liturgy of the Hours.

The clever John Robson at the Ottawa Citizen writes about Easter. No link available yet. I'd like to publish the whole thing, but I don't want my blogger license to get revoked for copyright infringement, so I'm just giving you a few excerpts: >

He turned a symbol of hate and torture into one of love and mercy. There will be very little blogging today. Perhaps a few things after 3:00 p.m. (EDT), but for now, only these: The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat. G.K. Chesterton On those

I don't have a lot to say about this, except that it's a terrible sin to put media into the hands of juvenile delinquents: > The German bishops' conference has issued a statement protesting plans by the MTV network to show "Popetown," a

Screwtape lives! And he writes about the hoax [http://www.ericmetaxas.com/essay-screwtapedavinci.html].

Baltimorish [http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9657]? The era of murkiness is clearing away?

> Let us run to accompany him as he hastens toward his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live