http://www.kansascity.com/255/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2013Kansas City Star Faith 60 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:03:36 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241696/misbehaving-scottish-cardinal.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241696/misbehaving-scottish-cardinal.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 14:29 CDT As Keith O'Brien announces his retirement, the Vatican says it has other plans that involve punishment. 1772748 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241647/voices-of-faith-how-does-your.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241647/voices-of-faith-how-does-your.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00 CDT Lama Chuck Stanford, Rime Buddist Center: 1772750 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/10/4229393/voices-of-faith-does-god-shine.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/10/4229393/voices-of-faith-does-god-shine.html#storylink=rss Fri, 10 May 2013 19:00 CDT Use what light we have for good // God's light is always there 1772750 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/26/4204333/voices-of-faith-so-what-do-you.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/26/4204333/voices-of-faith-so-what-do-you.html#storylink=rss Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:00 CDT A little bird tells us // We're a handful 1772750 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241674/in-search-of-perpetual-gratitude.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241674/in-search-of-perpetual-gratitude.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00 CDT I would like to know if gratitude is a sustainable state of being. It seems that one moment I feel thankful and the next my internal dialogue is complaining about something. 1772751 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/26/4204318/checking-off-jesus-get-to-heaven.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/26/4204318/checking-off-jesus-get-to-heaven.html#storylink=rss Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:00 CDT Until recently, I would have been among those who cringe at the thought of voluntarily entering a prison -- too dangerous, too out of anyone's comfort zone. Then something happened I did not plan on; I agreed to mentor a parolee, and while a parolee is no longer in prison, mentoring a former inmate means going into the system. 1772751 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/19/4191245/faith-walk-a-friendship-built.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/19/4191245/faith-walk-a-friendship-built.html#storylink=rss Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:00 CDT What has made us closer than most friends is not that we grew up in the same neighborhood but our faith in Christ. 1772751 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241650/addictions-can-be-overcome-with.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241650/addictions-can-be-overcome-with.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00 CDT DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: Is it possible to be addicted to things other than drugs or alcohol? Or are some of the things we do just bad habits that we could break if we really wanted to? -- M.D. 1772752 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/16/4237618/you-can-grow-in-faith-throughout.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/16/4237618/you-can-grow-in-faith-throughout.html#storylink=rss Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00 CDT DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: My grandmother used to say that the longer we live, the closer we'll be to God. Is that true? It was with her, because she became more devout as she got older, but I've known others who just got grumpy and hard to live with when they got old. -- J.Q. 1772752 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/15/4238178/encourage-neighbor-to-turn-away.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/15/4238178/encourage-neighbor-to-turn-away.html#storylink=rss Wed, 15 May 2013 18:13 CDT DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: My neighbor just confessed to me that she's carrying on an affair behind her family's back, and is thinking about leaving them so she can marry her lover (who's also married). I want to help her, but how can I? She claims she's at peace with her decisions. -- N.N. 1772752 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/14/4233092/give-of-yourself-to-those-who.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/14/4233092/give-of-yourself-to-those-who.html#storylink=rss Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00 CDT DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: My aunt went into a nursing home a few months ago, and whenever I go to see her I come away saddened because so many of the people there are lonely and never have any visitors. Should I encourage our pastor to start visiting there? -- L.M. 1772752 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/13/4233099/friend-with-cancer-needs-your.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/13/4233099/friend-with-cancer-needs-your.html#storylink=rss Mon, 13 May 2013 12:31 CDT DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: I have a friend who's always been the upbeat, optimistic type, no matter what happened. But now she's been diagnosed with untreatable cancer, and it's really sent her into an emotional tailspin. What happened to all her optimism? -- A.R. 1772752 http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-1819-13.html http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-1819-13.html#storylink=rss Sat, 18 May 2013 00:15 CDT One of the gifts religion has given the world or at least helped to affirm and nurture is ritual. Yes, there's empty, meaningless ritual 1772754 http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-17-13.html http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-17-13.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 00:15 CDT No doubt someone could earn a Ph.D. doing research on statistics about religion -- how they're compiled, by whom, their reliability, their purposes and on and on 1772754 http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-16-13.html http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-16-13.html#storylink=rss Thu, 16 May 2013 00:15 CDT When the visioning task force I chaired for my congregation issued our "GPS Report" early last year, one of the sections under which our recommendations fell was called "Radical Intentional Hospitality." In effect, it called on our congregation not just... 1772754 http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-15-13.html http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-15-13.html#storylink=rss Wed, 15 May 2013 00:15 CDT Yes, I know that today is George Brett's birthday and that the Hall of Famer whose career I was privileged to watch (some of it in person) turns 60. But mostly I don't write about sports here, so happy birthday,... 1772754 http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-14-13.html http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/05/5-14-13.html#storylink=rss Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15 CDT Over the decades, the question of what Christian churches did to oppose or support slavery in the United States has been an embarrassing one that many adherents of the faith have chosen not to explore, given that so much time... 1772754 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241673/broadway-unkind-to-virgin-mary.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241673/broadway-unkind-to-virgin-mary.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24 CDT Controversial play finds few followers. 1772749 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241664/vatican-dabbles-in-art-again.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241664/vatican-dabbles-in-art-again.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00 CDT In a bid to revive its ancient tradition of arts patronage, the Holy See will participate with its own pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, a leading international arts festival. The exhibition will feature works by contemporary artists taking their cues from the Book of Genesis. 1772749 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241652/an-angels-calling-card-goes-on.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/17/4241652/an-angels-calling-card-goes-on.html#storylink=rss Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13 CDT The Gabriel Stone, a 3-foot-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as the first century BC, at the time of the Second Jewish Temple. 1772749 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/15/4237882/diocese-bishop-finn-settle-lawsuit.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/15/4237882/diocese-bishop-finn-settle-lawsuit.html#storylink=rss Wed, 15 May 2013 19:58 CDT The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court against the diocese, Bishop Robert Finn and the Rev. Shawn Ratigan by the parents of a young northern Missouri girl, was settled for $600,000, attorneys for the girl's family said. It is the diocese's largest settlement in a single priest sex abuse case, they said. 1772749 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/12/4231211/pope-francis-gives-church-hundreds.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/12/4231211/pope-francis-gives-church-hundreds.html#storylink=rss Sun, 12 May 2013 03:14 CDT Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square. 1772749