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Holy indifference - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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Moses presented the Ten Commandments around 1300 BCE. These were not the first list of guidelines in ancient history, nor were they the only list. About 400 years earlier Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, bound himself and the people he ruled to 272 statutes, bringing a new order and stability. For the first time, royal decree ceased to be arbitrary. Until Hammurabi, law was essentially at the whim of the king and could be changed by him at any moment. Moses gave another set of “laws” by which to
Revisiting reverence - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place – and I did not know it.” The fall of 2001, I found myself driving alone from St. Louis to Chicago to be with my mother who was to undergo lung surgery. I was feeling a mixture of gratitude (because the cancer was caught early) and fear (because it brought home once again how fragile life is). I am happy to say my mom survived the cancer and lived to be nearly 95. This trip took place a few weeks following Sept. 11, and I
Compassion - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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The prophet Hosea describes God as one who “bends down … to feed, to lift up and to hold.” Strength and flexibility are both necessary in the act of bending. How grateful we are to have a God who is willing to bend on our behalf and who invites us to bend on behalf of one another. Dr. George Vaillant, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, describes resilient human beings as those having “both the capacity to be bent without breaking and the capacity, once bent, to spring back.” (pg.
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