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Tucson and Port-au-Prince: thinking about words, images, and violence
WILL WE? (Photo credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times) A stunningly violent shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and we are talking again about violence and violent…
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Classic 99 is online and expanding
As it happens, when Classic 99 went off the air in July 2010, it never died. Classic99.com continues to live stream its vast catalog of…
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Macy’s, Handel’s Messiah, and a random act of hyperspace
By now, it has been making the email and Facebook rounds many times over: The Opera Company of Philadelphia hides in the Center City Philadephia…
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Starbucks Coffee and the meaning of ritual
I gave up my Starbucks addiction a long time ago. (In a previous life, the Webster/Old Orchard Starbucks was a near-daily stop on my way…
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“Major reorganization” of Interfaith Partnership and the state of religious nonprofits
From the 2009 Interfaith Partnership Annual Dinner. Photo credit: www.interfaithstl.org.
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New “Bach at the Sem” season opens this Sunday, Oct 10
The first Bach at the Sem concert of the season will take place this Sunday, October 10, at 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel of St.…
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Bible is focus of Concordia Seminary’s upcoming symposium
Stephen Fowl “Scripture in the Church: Formative or Formality?” is the title of the 21st annual Theological Symposium, to be held Sept. 21-22 on the…