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October 23, 2009
On October 20, 2009, LUCY, 101 years old; beloved wife of the late Belton David Ligon; devoted mother of Marie Coulter. Also survived by six grandchildren, Clifford O., Pamela V., David S., Edward E., Lynette and Pamela A. Coulter; eight great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Friday, 1-8 p.m. The family will be present after 5 until 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the Church of God, 4310 Edmondson Avenue, Saturday, Wake 10 a.m. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park.
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By Gordon Livingston | September 27, 2009
In a society in which at least 9 of 10 people say they believe in a supreme being, it is natural for people to pray for what they want and identify good outcomes as God's affirmative response. This is especially true in matters of life or death. And so, when a plane crashes or a boat sinks, it is common for the survivors to attribute their good fortune to God's response their prayers. Similarly, when a person is facing life-threatening illness, it is routine to solicit the prayers of others for recovery.
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By RICK MAESE | January 29, 2009
TAMPA, Fla. - There was Kurt Warner, addressing the godless - notebook-toting cynics who worship at the altar of the free media buffet. Our saviors are sharp-eyed copy editors, and our gods were the Babe and Unitas and Jordan. Who has time for Jesus talk? Unfortunately, our subject behind the microphone has nothing more important to talk about. No, it wasn't surprising that it took Warner just a couple of minutes before his talk turned from football to faith. But - and I suspect this was a news conference first - there were no groans from the assembled flock of hacks.
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By Wendy Cadge | December 14, 2008
The vast majority of Americans believe in God and communicate with him through prayer. Yet even at times of great crisis - the kinds of occasions that send people to the hospital, for example - people don't expect God to solve their problems for them. How do I know this? Because I've read people's prayers, hundreds of them. In times of economic distress and in times of plenty, close to 90 percent of Americans pray - more than half of us once a day or more. We pray for big things: to stay healthy, to keep our jobs and to strengthen our relationships.
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By Rona Marech | November 2, 2008
When Dan Furmansky, 34, steps down from his position as executive director at Equality Maryland next month, gay couples still won't be able to get married in Maryland, much to his disappointment. But there were also victories during his five-year tenure at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, he said, and as he moves on, he remains hopeful about the gay rights movement. What brought you to this advocacy work? In my first job after college, I ran community programs for an animal shelter.
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By KEVIN COWHERD | June 2, 2008
I watched Orioles outfielder Luke Scott smack a homer and point to the heavens the other night, which tells me God is still having a pretty good year on the playing fields. Pointing to the heavens is big in sports these days. Baseball players point to the heavens to thank God when they get a big hit. Basketball players point when they hit a big shot. Football players point when they score a touchdown - sometimes they'll even drop to one knee, shooting God a quick bonus thank-you. I don't watch hockey or tennis, so I'm not so sure how those athletes feel about God and whether game-time thank-yous are necessary.
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By GARRISON KEILLOR | December 6, 2007
I got to teach Episcopal Sunday school last week, a rare privilege, and it was in a New York church so the kids had plenty to say. Teenagers, and if you expect them to sit in rapt silence as you tick off points of theology, you're in the wrong place. They made plenty of noise, and not much of it about religion. Some of them seemed to be on a faith journey that was heading away from the Nicene Creed toward something cooler and jokier, some form of animism perhaps, the worship of cougars and badgers.
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By Jonathan Pitts | November 4, 2007
A fiery theologian once had harsh words for some fellow Christians. "When you ... pass judgment on [others], yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?" wrote the apostle Paul. "God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you" (Romans 2:3, 24). In some ways, Paul had nothing on Scott Munger, a Minnesota-born evangelist-author. In his new book, Rethinking God: Undoing the Damage (Living Ink Books), Munger, an American missionary, takes on fellow evangelicals - mostly a noisy few on the religious right - whose behavior and bad theology he says are repelling followers and widening the yawning gap between the religious and the secular.
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By David L. Ulin | October 21, 2007
Earlier this year, at a Writers Bloc event in Beverly Hills, Calif., Norman Mailer acknowledged that he believed in God. This belief, he explained, was qualified; his vision of the deity was as one who is fallible, far from omnipotent, less a Supreme Being than a supreme artist of a kind. Noting that his own creations had often gotten the best of him, Mailer said he didn't see why the same might not be true of God. This was a classic Mailer performance - contrarian, contradictory, brilliant and somehow unsatisfying.
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By Johanna Neuman | October 12, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The acting architect of the U.S. Capitol cleared the way yesterday for the certificates that accompany flags flown over the building to include the word "God," reversing policy on an issue that was becoming the latest touchstone in the nation's culture wars. "When one of our services or policies doesn't effectively serve members of Congress or the American public, it needs to be changed immediately," architect Stephen T. Ayers said in a statement. "I appreciate the Congress bringing this important issue to my attention."