There’s this David Mamet movie I like called “State and Main.” It’s about a small town that gets overrun with the filming of a movie and all the upheaval that causes. There’s a great line in it that goes, “The only second chance you get in life is the chance to make the same mistake twice.”
The idea that America is special, “a city on a hill,” is often associated with a right-wing Christian perspective that God has chosen the United States for special blessings.
Last Saturday several hundred people gathered near the Country Club Plaza to protest the vote in California against gay marriage.
When the medieval church wanted to communicate the biblical narratives to a largely illiterate society, it used stained-glass windows to illustrate the stories.
Arvind Khetia, engineer and a Hindu: To an outsider, Hinduism may look complex and confusing. However, it is a rational religion based on the spiritual philosophy of the Vedas. Hinduism’s spiritual wisdom, known as Vedanta, is given in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita.
There’s this David Mamet movie I like called “State and Main.” It’s about a small town that gets overrun with the filming of a movie and all the upheaval that causes. There’s a great line in it that goes, “The only second chance you get in life is the chance to make the same mistake twice.”
Even though the media paid considerable attention to religion in the 2008 election, the experience taught us almost nothing insightful about faith.
CELEBRATION SERIES: Bob Koester and the Trombone Ensemble will perform “BrassFest.” Benefits mission trips. 5 p.m. Nov. 16, Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, 9100 Mission, Prairie Village. Free. Donations accepted. www.lcrpv.org (913-649-0438)
