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Dec 24, 2008 @ 2:13pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTWhat makes a miracle? Unbiased news at the Tucson Citizen. Dec 24, 2008 @ 7:24pm |
Define Miracle?What makes a miracle? Rabbi Brad Hirschfeld thinks that maybe some of it is simply perspective. More » |
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Dec 24, 2008 @ 1:26pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTOy, AGAIN with the calendar Dec 24, 2008 @ 2:13pm |
Go Find a Nice Jewish BoyHere on the fourth day of Hanukkah, you may be wondering, "Where can I find my one true Jewish love?" More » |
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Dec 12, 2008 @ 6:33pm
Posted by: Arnie Bermudez
LATEST COMMENT"Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Jeff Clabaugh Staff Reporter Dec 10, Dec 13, 2008 @ 4:12pm |
Coyote Wash for 12/13/08Only Bush could manage to do this. More » |
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Dec 6, 2008 @ 2:06pm
Posted by: Carolyn Classen
LATEST COMMENT"Before the Common Era". Dec 8, 2008 @ 8:45pm |
Happy Bodhi DayDecember 8th will mark the day that Lord Shakyamuni Buddha attained Enlightenment, by meditation, sitting under a bodhi tree in India around 596 B.C.E. Buddhism was officially introduced into Japan in the 6th Century, then to the Kingdom of Hawaii, through people like my grandparents who emigrated there in 1892. (The Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by US backed individuals in 1893, then became the 50th state in 1959). More » |
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Dec 5, 2008 @ 9:58am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
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Giving back to the universitiesAs readers know, there are certain executives at universities giving back part of their salaries in these difficult economic times. They do this because their staff and faculty are often having to take pay cuts or suffer layoffs. More » |
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Nov 18, 2008 @ 11:37am
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Sr. Renilde Cade, Wonder womanIt was standing room only at the funeral Mass yesterday for Sr. Renilde Cade, O.P., a 76-year-old member of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose who had spent her last five years ministering at the Catholic Newman Center on the University of Arizona campus. More » |
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Nov 6, 2008 @ 11:27am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTWhat is a "Hate Crime?" If I hate to be poor and I rob a bank for the money, Nov 8, 2008 @ 1:19pm |
Let the hate crimes beginAnd so it begins. This from the NY Daily News, regarding a Muslim teen being beaten by a gang of four angry at the Obama win on Tuesday: More » |
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Nov 4, 2008 @ 1:11pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTHmm. Missed the two relating to the Catholic Church. The relatives in Offaly Nov 4, 2008 @ 1:31pm |
Election Day Beliefs--The Obama-McCain Faith QuizBeliefnet has an interesting Election Day quiz. More » |
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Oct 14, 2008 @ 10:52am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENT75% of Jewish voters favor Obama? Here we go. Julio Pedrowitz has spoken-the Oct 31, 2008 @ 6:55pm |
The Great SchlepYoung Jews have decided to turn the Jewish Guilt thing on its head with the Great Shlep a national, grassroots effort to convince Jewish grandchildren visit their Florida-residing grandparents and convince them to vote for Barack Obama. More » |
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Oct 6, 2008 @ 11:23am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
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Death without noticeWhile the death of any friend or relative is heart-breaking, it is especially difficult when it is unexpected. A long illness allows for reconciliations, forgiveness, and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to say goodbye and let the person know how much you love him or her. When it is a random happening, your options for those conversations are ripped from you More » |
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Oct 6, 2008 @ 10:34am
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UA Provost's blogThis is just an FYI for folks interested in the More » |
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Sep 29, 2008 @ 4:40pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTIt's almost as if Renee Schafer Horton wants me to believe in the Devil. Well of Sep 29, 2008 @ 4:54pm |
Attack of the Atheist - sortaCall it coincidence (although others might use the words "fate" or "God moment") but the day I decide to blog - ever so briefly - about Sam Harris, I get an e-mail about the good Mr. Harris and a link to his 98-percent-excellent essay against the rise of Sarah Palin to the position of Republican VP nominee. More » |
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Sep 29, 2008 @ 10:44am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTReligion is a way to control, and "milk", the masses. Any human being has the Sep 30, 2008 @ 8:38am |
Why Faith Matters according to the rabbi"Human beings are unsettled and often cruel. Religion does not make them perfect, but serves to make them better. Having survived both a brain tumor and lymphoma, being engaged in daily counseling people of trouble and in grief, I know there is music to life that I did not create but I can hear. The proper response to it is gratitude, goodness and praise." More » |
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Sep 23, 2008 @ 3:31pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTThis may change, but at this time the tags on Renee Schafer Horton's blog post Sep 23, 2008 @ 3:46pm |
Crammed and worriedIt is standing room only in Room A313 of the UA main library as classified staff continue to pour in the doors to meet with UA President Robert Shelton and Provost Meredith Hay to get details on the university's Transformation Plan. One staff member, who wouldn't give his name, said everyone is scared of losing their jobs. I think UA is about to break fire-code in this room of cramped and worried staff members. More » |
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Sep 18, 2008 @ 2:51pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTWell, it's a cottage industry as shown Sep 18, 2008 @ 3:21pm |
A convention of religion bloggersVia an alert reader, comes More » |
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Sep 18, 2008 @ 12:22pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTactually, the country was built by people who despised organized religion. Most Sep 21, 2008 @ 12:23pm |
Obama and the Muslim question - againSan Diego State University's student newspaper has a very interesting take on Barack Obama's slip during his Sept. 7 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos in which he discussed his religion and referred to his "Muslim faith..." More » |
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Sep 16, 2008 @ 2:57pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTReligion writers are fulfilling the true definition of the Fourth Estate. Sep 17, 2008 @ 9:28pm |
The risks of being a religion writerEvery so often, you read a blog that makes you want to stand up and scream, "YES! I know exactly what you mean!" That's how I felt when I took 20 minutes today to work on my other job here at the Citizen, blogging about "God stuff," and came across More » |
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Sep 12, 2008 @ 12:59pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTwell first off shes not just sleeping with just anyone she does screen them test Nov 3, 2008 @ 4:06pm |
Need Tuition? Sell your virginityI guess you have to give her credit for creativity, but a 22-year-old San Diego woman auctioning her virginity to raise fund to get her master's degree in marriage and family therapy still seems like a bad idea. Although, according to some reports, she's not the first to have done so. More » |
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Sep 12, 2008 @ 11:57am
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTThe Catholic bishops and Mormon church are currently spending millions of Sep 18, 2008 @ 3:09pm |
Is Palin's God Your God?Newsweek's On Faith blog has what I consider to be an More » |
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Sep 3, 2008 @ 4:39pm
Posted by: Renee Schafer Horton
LATEST COMMENTThanks for writing, Mr. Flynn. You're absolutely correct that the Red Cross, Sep 4, 2008 @ 10:02pm |
Religious IndoctrinationThere are some things that change the way you look at the world forever. Scraping the fragments of someone’s life off their living room floor is one of them. More » |
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