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Homily for February 21, 2010: 1st Sunday of Lent
By
jmcgee
Lent is a time of penitence and confession. So today, I want to begin with a confession: I love “Undercover Boss.” This reality show debuted on CBS right after the Super Bowl. The premise is surprisingly simple: the CEO of a Fortune 500 company agrees to spend one week living and working as an entry-level…
Stand and deliver: posture in church
By
jmcgee
A columnist who writes from Ohio is using the beginning of Lent to wonder about the great cardio workout people get in church: Before Lent got going, I’d been writing about some of those “edge phenomena” around worship, “adiaphora” or “indifferent things” philosophically and theologically speaking. One was about coming late — or just as…
From “next top model” to role model
By
jmcgee
That aptly describes the remarkable journey of a young woman named Leah Darrow — who is now traveling the country to tell her story: “For years my faith took a back seat until it all came to a soulful boiling point during a high power photo shoot, where I turned back to God and my…
Okay. So what is curling, anyway?
By
jmcgee
I’m sure you’re probably as baffled by this Olympic sport as I am. We never had curling teams in high school, and nobody that I know ever bought curling season tickets to tournaments at Madison Square Garden. Growing up, the only curling I was aware of involved round plastic things that my sister would put…
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