Hurry up, willya? I’m two minutes late for my satori. Letters we never finished: “Announcing a Major Breakthrough in Brain/Mind Research: In 28 Minutes You’ll Be Meditating Like a Zen Monk!”
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For God or country, but not both. This advice from the Chicago Archdiocese publication Liturgy 90 (April): “National flags are meant to separate peoples and to inspire allegiance to civil authorities; they are reminders of ‘the things that are Caesar’s.’ The church building is a place to unite peoples, a place to render to God ‘the things that are God’s.’…In fact, there are significant reasons why a national flag should not be present in a church, a place in which all (not merely United States citizens) are welcome and a place in which a gospel message that often challenges the values of the country should be heard.”
Tales from the campus. Brenda Krause Eheart, who designed a new undergraduate sociology course at the U of I–“Children and Families With Special Needs”– reports that more than half of the 68 students in her most recent class did not know what a migrant worker was.
