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Thomas' article "10 Spiritual Resolutions" has been published in this week's Burnside Writers Collective.  Mosey on over and check it out.

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Thom's post on Consumerism and Decay in Jeremiah has been turned into a full article on Jesus Manifesto under the same name, a webzine run by Missio Dei.  The artwork for the article is excellent!

Thanks Jesus Manifesto!

Today NPR has an encouraging story about US military chaplains in Iraq trying to protect an ancient Chaldean Catholic monastery in the midst of armed conflicts.

An excerpt:

Everyday Liturgy contributor Thomas Turner was interviewed for an article in the Bergen Record discussing young Christian's association with the term ''Christian.''  The article is copied below.

Survey: Christian image takes a hit
Thursday, October 18, 2007

By ADELLE M. BANKS
RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

Young people have graded Christianity, and so far, the report card doesn't look good.

A new book based on research by the California-based firm The Barna Group said that young people in America find modern-day Christianity judgmental, hypocritical and anti-gay.

What's more, some Christians don't even want to call themselves ''Christian'' because of the baggage that accompanies the label.

''The Christian community's ability to take the high road and help to deal with some of the challenges that this [anti-gay] perception represents may be the ... defining response of the Christian church in the next decade,'' said David Kinnaman, Barna Group president and author of the book, ''UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity.''

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The Christian Carnival 193 is hosted today at Ligamesh.  Highlights of the Carnival are Pseudo-Polymath's Patriotism: Eschatological or Immediate and I Timothy 2 and the Artemis Cult by more

This week's Christian Carnival is hosted at On the Horizon.  Be sure to check out some of the other posts.

Cardinal Ratzinger discusses the action of liturgy: 

The real ''action'' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.  This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

Mr. Ratzinger also has the benefit of having the new name Benedict, as in Pope Benedict.

Everyday Liturgy Readership,