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From the stained glass windows at Norwich Cathedral (see more [http://contemplare.blogspot.com/]). My grandmother had a special devotion to Jesus as shepherd. A Lutheran, she didn't phrase it that way, but she did. Today's Gospel reading reminds me of her, a fine woman whose

Time to get out that Zeus suit and do some seducin' and rapin' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1767802,00.html]: > It has taken almost 2,000 years, but those who worship the 12 gods of ancient Greece have finally triumphed. An Athens court

Welcome to my whirlwind: tennis invitational (three matches), soccer game, and baseball scrimmage. All the while, of course, schlepping around the three little ones and handling other mundanities. But we plan on capping it off with a trip to St. Anne's Chapel [http://www.societycantius.org/StAnne.htm]

I get legal updates all the time. According to an update I received today, a new Michigan case holds that "sexually aggressive and predatory words may be sufficient to put an employer on notice of its employee's propensity for violence. Based on what plaintiff's attacker

> Britain is less happy than in the 1950s - despite the fact that we are three times richer [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/happiness_formula/4771908.stm]. We better get a team of researchers on this. Maybe they'll discover that man is not made

> In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN (Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father's mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: 'You&

Barefoot and Pregnant [http://www.barefootandpregnant.com/]. It's a spa, not a philosophy. Too bad. (Heh, heh, heh. Anyone know where I can get a cheap room for the night?)

> Statistically, an active participant in certain 'risky' forms of behavior is far likelier to contract AIDS than a ten-pack-a-day smoker is to come down with lung cancer. Yet the Supreme Court has ru led that such behavior is a human right, and cannot be outlawed. Charles A.

> A 33-year-old Malaysian man who married a 104-year-old woman said that it was God's will that he tie the knot with someone old enough to be his great-grandmother. . . "I didn't marry Wook for her money. Her only asset is her deep religious knowledge.” The