"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well as the mind. It's the source of a type of faith that is as often discovered outside traditional organized religion as within it.
(RNS) When Justin Bieber strode onto the stage of the Gibson
Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (Aug. 7) night to accept a Teen
Choice Award, he thanked his fans profusely, then quickly turned his
attention to something more eternal.
(RNS) When Meg Moseley gave birth to her third child 20 years ago,
doctors cautioned her against having any more babies, fearing that
another difficult pregnancy might jeopardize her life.
So Moseley and her husband decided three was the magic number, at
least for their family.
(RNS) This fall a film based on Donald Miller's bestselling spiritual
memoir, "Blue Like Jazz," is expected to hit theaters nationwide. In
many ways, Miller's book is an unlikely subject for a feature film.
(RNS) Faced with an unjust rule of Persian king who threatened the very
lives of her Jewish people, the Jewish heroine Queen Esther called on
the faithful to fast and pray for their rulers to have a change of
heart.
On Ash Wednesday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing
the death penalty in his state, making the Land of Lincoln the 16th
state where capital punishment is no longer an option.
(RNS) Late last week, the provost of Belmont University in Nashville,
Tenn., announced that the school officially had recognized its first gay
student organization.
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