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Have Yourself A Legal Little Christmas
Divine Maternity Hold Harmless Agreement By Jane Lebak In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The…
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New Vulnerability Found In Human Operating System
This appeared in the May/June 2006 issue of The Wittenburg Door (http://www.thedoormagazine.com). Ivy Reisner and I had an absolute blast writing it, and we were both thrilled when The Door snapped it up. She and I also co-wrote “Useless Conference…
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Geeks love words.
Kiddo#2 asked, “Is there a book that has all those readings in it? You know, the Bible readings from church?” I handed her a Bible and told her to read Mark. But since the Bible is over half a million…
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New date for the end of the world!
Harold Camping’s second date for the end of the world has passed and we’re all still here. I’m used to this by now. I grew up with yearly predictions about God’s wrath coming in various horrible ways, and when I…
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Won’t you be my neighbor?
Our parish priest is in the hospital and could use some prayers, and in the meantime we’ve got a “loaner priest” from somewhere else taking the daily Masses. He’s got some interesting insights, and I wanted to share one. (Actually,…
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Choose me.
Even though Sunday trumped yesterday’s feast of St. Maximilan Kolbe, our priest talked about him during the homily because he darned well felt like it. I love this guy. He’s old, ready to retire, and if he has something good…
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On command
A couple of Sundays ago, the psalm response was “Lord, I love your commands.” If your first reaction was along the lines of “I don’t really, of course,” then slide over on the bench because I’m with you. I don’t…
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on being prepared
I was maybe twelve weeks pregnant with my second. As I stepped out of the shower, I heard in my head, What would you do if the baby had anencephaly? Looking back, the oddest part of this incident is that…
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*beep*
On a Thursday morning, I trudged downstairs to brew a pot of awareness-giving elixir when I heard the smoke detector give its “Feed me” chirp. Low batteries. Not a biggie. Thanks to BJs, we have a thousand AA batteries. But…
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