Waking Youth, Prayers For The Beach, Interfaith Cities

Monday, June 25, 2012 Joshua Otte: The Near Is The Far Of It A few years back, I set out with my dear friend Tom on a kind of pilgrimage, seeking clarity and a little adventure. Our destination was the source of the Ganges river in the Himalayas. We were energetic students willing to travel thousands of miles with little more than the clothes on our backs. We were looking to wash our spirits clean in the sacred waters near Gaumukh. Prayers And Meditations For The Beach SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Cross On Public Land Case PHOTOS: Most And Least Interfaith Cities In America The Last (Divine) Hope For Little Brazil Vatican Gets Fox Media Adviser BLOG POSTS Richard Giannone: Pride and HIV/AIDS: The Spiritual Goodness Within At Mass one witnessed the spectrum of AIDS from halting gait and blemishes to emaciation. HIV was making people realize that the tenacity of love of life flourished in these wasting men. Ari Hart: Calling American Jews -- Show Compassion for Vulnerable Immigrants in Israel The question of how to deal with a rapid influx of thousands of legitimate asylum seekers fleeing genocide and ethnic violence, mixed with others who are not fleeing persecution but instead enter illegally while looking for work, is not easily answered. Frank Schaeffer: Wild Goose Heaven Our Answer to Hate The second Wild Goose Festival has just ended. I left a piece of my heart in the hills of North Carolina. David Lose: Do Christian Denominations Have a Future? Despite my obvious denominational loyalty I'm not sure Christian denominations have a future -- or whether they even should. Here are five reasons that I not only suspect the day of denominations has passed. Rabbi David Saperstein: A Strong Jewish Voice for Effective Carbon Limits We are confronted by the fact the Earth is changing before us, and the resources we enjoy today -- clean, breathable air, a stable climate -- will not be here forever unless we act now. The choice is clear, and the time is now.

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