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🌎🕊️🌐 SITE UPDATE: Faith on View

Hello, Sometimes things are not easy, and this past week at Faith on View has been very challenging due to a significant breach. Don't worry- no donor or subscriber information has been compromised, but the site is currently completely down. We are working to restore it, but a security specialist has indicated that it may take a while to do the necessary in-depth cleaning. We will continue to send out most newsletters, but will not include articles, essays, etc. hosted on Faith on View until...

🌎 Graffiti exhibit stirs controversy at Canterbury Cathedral

October 19, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Graffiti exhibit stirs controversy at Canterbury Cathedral The website of Canterbury Cathedral uses a catchy description of this landmark’s cultural inheritance: “Discover a day out 1,400 years in the making.” But for the past several years the cathedral has often offered art shows and other events that try.... How a rabbi’s faith in Jesus helped rescue Bulgaria’s Jewish community The...

🌐 Facts are Stubborn Things

October 19, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay Facts are Stubborn Things Private Hugh White stamped his feet and rubbed his hands together to warm them in the blistering cold of a March evening in Boston. Snow blanketed the ground around the Custom House he was tasked to guard. Royal revenue collected at the cost of antagonizing King George III’s colonial subjects rested within. An eleven-year-old boy named Christopher Seider was killed on...

🌎 Christian congressman calls jailed George Santos 'sacrificial lamb' for GOP: 'Look how righteous we are'

October 19, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Christian congressman calls jailed George Santos 'sacrificial lamb' for GOP: 'Look how righteous we are' Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently condemned the way some of his Republican colleagues in Congress treated former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., claiming some of them took self-righteous glee in his political destruction. "I think he was a.... Quid pro presidency Nations that have bestowed...

🌎 State gives big boost to church housing plan

October 19, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS State gives big boost to church housing plan At a time when unease envelops the entire D.C. area, a United Methodist church near the U.S. capital city has received some unadulterated good news. Maryland officials publicly announced Oct. 9 that the state is awarding Silver Spring United.... In Dallas, 6,700 women rally for Culture War battles after Kirk’s death “Welcome to the fight,” said...

🕊️ Obvious Sins, Simple Truths (Galatians 5:19-21)

October 19, 2025 Daily Reflections for a Life of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Welcome to Whispers of Grace. As an artist and scholar of religion, I hope to bring something unique and worthwhile. These reflections, devotions, or whatever you choose to call them, are personal. These are my thoughts as I struggle to live in the same world and serve the same God as you. I pray that they bring value when you read them, as they do to me when I write them. -Rondall Reynoso Read more...

🌐 Are We Good Neighbors?

October 19, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay Are We Good Neighbors? One hour, twenty minutes. That’s how long Hugo Tale-Yax lay on a sidewalk in New York, in front of shops and businesses, in the path of passersby. One hour, twenty minutes during which dozens of people walked past Tale-Yax, some staring, some mocking, but most seeming to pay no attention at all as he lay dying on that sidewalk on an April morning, in 2010..... Read Essay...

🌎 Israelis and Palestinians rejoice as hostages are released and prisoners freed, in photos

October 19, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Israelis and Palestinians rejoice as hostages are released and prisoners freed, in photos Israelis celebrated the return of the last surviving hostages from Gaza — a defining exchange in the fragile ceasefire that has paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of the.... Teaching Sunday school on Philippines’ Witchcraft Island Past...

🌐 A Reflection on the Life of Esther: For Such a Time as This

October 19, 2025 Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith First time reading? Sign up here Essay A reflection on the life of Esther: for such a time as this The text in the book of Esther may be rarely encountered and unfamiliar to our ears, but the relevance of this book to our modern world should not be overlooked. In the book, we are introduced to an orphaned Jewish girl – Esther – who is being raised by her cousin, Mordecai, as his own daughter. We suspect that the family settled in Persia...

🌎 Sacramento city leaders weigh new policy to permit religious daggers in city hall

October 19, 2025 Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul First time reading? Sign up here IN THE NEWS Sacramento city leaders weigh new policy to permit religious daggers in city hall Public safety versus religious freedom — it's a debate taking place next week at Sacramento City Hall. People attending Sacramento City Council meetings must first pass through a metal detector operated by police officers before they're allowed to.... Starvation as weapon in war-torn Sudan Over 100 Civil Society...

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