Faith Over Fear
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Rev. Dr. Leon Bailey, Jr.
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Faith Matters: The Lightened Yoke Is Love
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Missing Catherine
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Rev. Bonita Grubbs.
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Sunday is Mother’s Day.
According to Wikipedia, in 1868, Anna Jarvis, who had previously organized Mother’s Day Work Clubs to improve sanitation and health for both Union and Confederate encampments undergoing a typhoid outbreak, organized a committee to establish a “Mother’s Friendship Day”, the purpose of which was “to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War.”
Faith Matters: Scar Glory
by | May 6, 2025 12:37 pm | Comments (0)
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My collection of scars grew this winter when I fell on the ice in my driveway and broke my right elbow. My scar collection includes that one, along with anterior and posterior scars on my neck from four cervical discectomies, a scar on my left knee from the removal of a benign cyst, and a scar on my left foot from a broken fifth metatarsal.
Faith Matters: Beyond Neutrality
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Welcome The Stranger
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Rabbi Herb Brockman.
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(Opinion) It was on a cold morning in Sept 2015 that Alan Kurdi’s body washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. Along with his parents and older brother, they were fleeing the violence in their native Syria. Their rubber raft was bound for a “safe harbor” on a Greek island. The boat capsized. Alan and his brother and mother drowned.
The image of a 2‑year-old lying in the sand was captured by a Turkish photographer and was sent around the world. People opened their hearts when they saw the suffering in that image. All these years it never left me.
Faith Matters: Freedom Struggles & Holy Week
by | Apr 17, 2025 10:05 am | Comments (3)
Rev. Allie Perry.
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(Opinion) While the dates for Passover and Easter vary from year to year, this year they converge.
The eight days of Passover in the Jewish calendar are almost a complete overlay of the seven days of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter, in the Christian calendar. Dates are not the only commonality, however.
More significantly, both these religious observances memorialize sacred stories of freedom struggles and resistance to oppressive empires.
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Faith Matters: On Passover & Redemption
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Rabbi Schaefer.
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Faith Matters: Gaza & Ramadan
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Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
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(Opinion) The Qur’an, which was revealed during Ramadan in the sixth century to Prophet Muhammad, is read daily to remind Muslims not only of their commitment to God and His commands but also their commitment to the lives of all living beings.
Since he is mentioned more than any other prophet throughout the Qur’an, Prophet Moses’ life is described in detail throughout the holy text.
Faith (Still) Matters
by | Mar 11, 2025 2:00 pm | Comments (3)
Note: This is the first installment in a “Faith Matters” column that will include pieces written by local clergy.
(Opinion) – I’ve been contributing to the New Haven Register’s Faith Matters column for over a decade. I have to admit that it came as a great disappointment to me that a decision had been made to discontinue the column.
I have always viewed Faith Matters as a pleasant light in a world filled with far too much bad, sad, and mad news. I was honored to be among its contributors. The decision to snuff that light happened to occur just as it was my turn to submit another column. Twice in the dozen or so years I’ve been contributing, the due date snuck up on me and I found myself having to produce a column in a matter of hours. The first time I got a friendly “where’s your column?” phone call, I was driving. I pulled over, said a prayer and began to write. It was a very decent piece if I do say so myself. No one can tell me that faith doesn’t matter. God helped me get it done!