During the 2000 years of church history, Christianity has battled the temptation of being absorbed by the society around it, and the results have too often been mixed. In Palestine Christianity was a brotherhood. The Greeks turned it into a philosophy. In Rome it became a political system. In America it has become a business.

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Lee’s Summit Catholics are hopeful their new pope will be the leader for a challenging time.

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I like reading different translations of the Bible in order to pick up various nuances in the text. On of my favorite “reading” Bibles (as opposed to a “study” Bible) is one that came out of Britain several decades ago. But its translation of I Corinthians 11:28-32 startled me:

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‘You give them something to eat.” (Jesus in Mark 6:37)

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A new project of the Jackson County Genealogical Society is collecting Bible records.

It was an odd headline for the front page given all the goings on in the world. Over the pictures of Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and others were the bold-type words, “Do you forgive them?”

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