Topic: Chicago

Study links religious services to optimism

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Regular attendance at religious services is associated with a more optimistic outlook and a lesser inclination to be depressed, compared to those who do not attend services at all, a study concluded on Thursday.The study's findings supports previous research ...

US prison chaplain charged with helping mobster

A former prison chaplain has been charged with helping a notorious Chicago mobster sneak messages out of jail and try to recover a valuable Stradivarius violin, prosecutors said Thursday.The aim was to keep the government from getting it.The indictment reads like the ...
I've just written a Religion News Service story about whether people of faith make easier marks for con artists, prompted by the news of a Ponzi scheme that scammed $30 million from Chicago-area Muslims, along with other affinity frauds that have targeted ...
Towards the end of my stay there I found steady work at a popular Chicago Greek-American Restaurant. What they didn't tell him, was that they had set him up to marry a Greek girl, so as to save them the embarrassment in ...
Few qualities on Earth exceed the power of the human spirit; one has only to decide and changes begin immediately. Yes, there was then and still is a "north" America and a "south" within the borders of Northern America. By inheriting the ...
In 1893, at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, a young unknown Swami Vivekananda, an East Indian Yogi, introduced the West to Hinduism generally, and Advaita Vedanta specifically. Since that time, the ancient Eastern contemplative tradition of meditation, a practice ...

Hajj and Umrah Travel

Hajj is a journey to the House of God and is the fifth Pillar of Islam. The Statement Regarding Hajj is that it is we need following legitimate Documents, Certificates, Marriage Proof, Medical Performing Hajj and Umrah every year and there are ...
It will be interesting to see how far this discussion goes. Now, an Evanston pastor, the Rev. Bill Tkachuk, is raising the question of whether women can become deacons -- ordained ministers a step below priests. His parish, St. Nicholas, has been ...

Biography: Phillip Bliss

We Americans were shocked by the tragic death of the astronauts of the Columbia space shuttle. On December 29, 1876, Americans were likewise shocked at the death of Philip Paul Bliss and his wife in the worst train accident at that time. ...

Models of reality

Did you ever fly on an airplane without a navigator? Therefore, the first thing you do is set yourself some goals that you would want to achieve. The problem with the journey of life is that you can't exactly hire a navigator, ...
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