Faith: Christian
“The whole idea is to live the kingdom life here and now,” says Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. “It’s for God and the community.” More
Shaker communities “required of you to give your all to God to and to strive to work at your salvation each and every day,” says one of the last living Shakers. More
The current president of Friends of the Shakers says the communities believed they would “grow to a great number and then dwindle down to as few as the fingers on one hand, and then there would be a resurgence.”
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“Part of what calls people to public service, part of what calls people to be engaged in helping others both here and around the world is their faith.” More
The Catholic peace movement Pax Christi USA met outside the White House for prayers of repentance for war. More
The seriousness of Ash Wednesday and Lent was preceded this week by frivolity and the traditional pancake race at Washington’s National Cathedral. More
As Congress debates the budget, religious conservatives say the debt is a moral issue, and an interfaith coalition has launched a campaign to reduce military spending and prevent cuts for the poor. More
Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente’s conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith. More
Pastor Matthew Cork of Yorba Linda Friends Church in California says its ministry includes producing a feature film “that has a cause and a mission behind it.” More
“That old singing, that old praying which I love so much—that is the great strength of my being, of my writing,” says the author of “A Lesson before Dying” and many other critically acclaimed books. More
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