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Steering away from distraction - TEXAN Online
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (948+ words) Church at the Cross has been going through a digital declutter this spring, identifying unhealthy connections to technology and intentionally making space for God to form their spiritual character. "It's no shock that in our cultural moment, screen times and…...
Tokmakjian family boosts St. Mary Church renovation with massive $500, 000 gift
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (695+ words) Horizon Weekly Tokmakjian family boosts St. Mary Church renovation with massive $500, 000 gift TORONTOHYE " Mr. and Mrs. Vahe and Hrip Tokmakjian have made a generous $500, 000 donation toward the renovation of St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church in Toronto. As Torontohye reported in…...
A land that abhors immorality
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (462+ words) Edited by B. Silberstein The Sanctity of the Land and Shemitah This week's Torah reading, Be Har-Be Chukotai, concludes the Book of Va Yikra. Both portions highlight different dimensions of the sanctity of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel), each from a…...
Bioethics: The Life and Death Issue
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (560+ words) Bioethics and the "right to die" movement are bolstered by those in government and academia who believe that health care resources are finite and scarce and thus should be allocated properly and rationed among" the population. The old and infirm…...
D'var Torah: Whoever Keeps This Promise, They Shall Be Worthy
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (227+ words) This week's Torah portion is Behar-Bechukotai: Leviticus 25: 1 " 27: 34 We retreat into spaces where we are affirmed rather than challenged, and the cost of that retreat is much higher than we might think. Miscommunication and misunderstanding turn arguments into fights, and conflicts…...
De Paul University Conference On Pope Leo Draws Conversation About AI, Human Dignity
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (565+ words) AI 'machines do not have soul,' Jesuit Father Philip Larrey said. 'Only God can be responsible for the creation of the soul....
Central Seminary receives donations from clergy alumni group's benefit concert
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (285+ words) THE UST Central Seminary received a P500, 000 donation from the UST Alumni Lay and Priests Association (ALPA) on April 15." The funds were raised through "Project: Basil Valdez " A Concert for a Cause" staged on Jan. 28, 2026. The donation was received by Central…...
Awakening the Moral Imagination ~ The Imaginative Conservative
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (458+ words) The beauty of fairy tales is their ability to attractively depict character and virtue. Goodness glimmers while wickedness and deception are unmasked. The great fairy tales and children's fantasy stories attractively depict character and virtue. In these stories, the virtues…...
Legal Sin and The Law of Sin
1+ week, 1+ day ago (54+ words) Paul tells us in Colossians 2: 14, 20 that Christ blotted out the ordinances of the Old Covenant from the time of Moses, and took them out of the way, nailing them to His cross. Therefore, if we are dead with Christ, why,…...
Why We Need to Take Love Seriously
1+ week, 4+ day ago (462+ words) Posted April 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Hara Estroff Marano Part of the problem in how we use the word "love" is due to semantic inflation and a broader shift in our culture towards hyperbolic language, whereby stronger and stronger expressions are used…...