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The Lenten Journey of Gospel Nonviolence (Part 5)
Posted on Mar 4, 2008 05:43am CST.| On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J. | Tuesday, March 4, 2008 |
| Vol. 2, No. 26 |
John's Gospel, the supposedly most "spiritual" one, is full of death threats and assassination attempts, such as the end of chapter 8, where the religious authorities pick up stones to kill the nonviolent Jesus. He barely escapes, but gets excommunicated, kicked out of the Temple. It's in this context, this life and death struggle, that Jesus heals a blind man in one of the most astonishing episodes of healing vision, revolutionary spirituality and political discipleship in the New Testament (from Sunday's Gospel, John 9:1-41).
Landmark Study on Religious Affiliation
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Landmark Study on Religious Affiliation
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released the results of a landmark survey of religion in the United States Feb. 25. The findings, based on surveying 35,000 adults in the continental United States, is noteworthy for its breadth and its depth. In this NCR Newscast, Pew researchers discussed three aspects of the survey, called “The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.â€
The host for this program is NCR staff writer Dennis Coday
