Civil Religion

An intimate cross-country look at the new debate over religion in the public schools A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their...

Raised on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux in 1970s Lebanon, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. As the bombs fell, she lived an adolescence of excess and transgression, defying death in nightclubs. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment by day of the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father's last wish is for his favorite song, "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral.

With their new book, Cristofer Pereyra and Erin Monnin provide a guide to authentic lay Catholic leadership. Catholic Leadership for Civil Society is structured to show that lay Catholic leadership is not meant to be lived out within the confines of the Catholic community exclusively, but instead serve mainly as a guiding force which illuminates every aspect of secular society with the Truth of the Gospel. The book explains why lay Catholic professionals have a unique responsibility and opportunity to influence the world for Christ, as their duty as baptized children of God.

Just a thought... Few things are more powerful than a thought. Everything that was ever created began with the conception of a thought. Every hero who accepted the challenge to save the day, all came to the stage of history by a mere thought. Every partnership, business, invention, innovation, discovery and scientific breakthrough all began with a thought. Each of these life Rules began as a thought, sparked by an experience and I believe this collection of principles can serve you as a guide to thrive on your path.

How can a nation survive if its citizens see each other as enemies? Two out of three Americans consider civility to be a major problem in our country today. Only 7 percent say it is not a problem at all. It seems we are all fighting to be heard, but no ones listening. Has our culture lost the art of civility? In Respectfully, I Disagree: How to Be a Civil Person in an Uncivil Time, Dr. Jim Denison offers a path to becoming a people of civility in a season of conflict.

Award-winning storyteller and Methodist pastor, Tom Letchworth, retells some of the most fascinating stories from the American Civil War. War Ain't No Picnic is an entertaining and easy-to-understand collection of Civil War stories. Here are some of the interesting stories Tom Letchworth discovered in his research of the American Civil War. And since he's a United Methodist minister, it's only natural that he saw the spiritual analogies.

In Rome, on February 24, 1530, Pope Clement VII placed the ancient crown of the Holy Roman Empire on the head of the 29-year-old Charles V of Habsburg. Born in Flanders, he became Duke of Burgundy and Lord of the Netherlands at the age of six, King of Castile and Aragon at 15, Archduke of Austria at 17, and, finally, King of the Romans three months after that. The last title belonged to the ruler of Germany before he was solemnly crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.

La parola “blasfemia” viene dal latino blasphemia, a sua volta derivata dal greco βλασφημ?α, blasphemía, vocabolo composto dal verbo βλ?πτειν, bláptein, “ingiuriare”, e dal sostantivo φ?μη/φ?μα, phéme/pháma, “reputazione”. Ingiuriare reputazione! La bestemmia o blasfemia è una locuzione con contenuti dissacranti e svalutanti verso Dio, verso i santi, o più in generale verso quanto appartiene al mondo di Dio. Non lo so quale è il paese del mondo dove si bestemmia di più? Sicuramente l’Italia è un campione.