Spirituality

The List Goes On: Rabbi Jack Shlachter To Discuss Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners In Physics May 1

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos Public Library will host Rabbi Jack Shlachter for a talk on Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners in Physics, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1.

As part of the library’s honoring of Jewish American Heritage Month in May, Shlachter’s talk will explore the outsized history of Jewish Nobel Laureates of the Physics prize. With far too many physicists to describe in detail, the list of Jewish Prize Winners includes names such as Richard Feynman, Fred Reines, Hans Bethe, Robert Hofstadter, Eugene Wigner and A. A. Michelson. Of the famous names, Shlachter will discuss the particular Read More

Fr. Glenn: Shepherding

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Some of my former parishioners live in a very rural setting, and besides farming one of their businesses is raising/selling a species of goat used for Jewish religious rites. They related to me recently that they found one of their dogs which guard the sheep bloodied, some slain coyotes nearby. The faithful hound evidently had repulsed a coordinated attack for which the wily coyote is so well known.

I recalled this while reviewing the Gospel for this weekend’s Catholic Mass in which Jesus portrays Himself as the Good Shepherd (John 10:11-18). One of the earliest paintings of Read More

All Shall Be Well: The Power Of Love

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Clergy from left, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Deacon  Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, Associate Priest Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church

“Solitary confinement involves physical isolation. This means a person has minimal interaction with other people. It can cause severe psychological distress and other adverse mental effects. Isolation can be as distressing as physical torture and it can create the following: anxiety and stress, depression and hopelessness, Read More

Op/Ed: What Is This Town Like?

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By JIM GOURDOUX
White Rock

In response to the recent Op/Ed on “Los Alamos Lab Culture For Outsiders” (link):

Back in the days when the settlers were moving to the West, a wise man stood on a hill outside a new Western town. As the settlers came from the East, the wise man was the first person they met before coming to the settlement. They asked eagerly what the people of the town were like.

He answered them with a question: “What were the people like in the town you just left?”

Some said, “The town we came from was wicked. The people were rude gossips who took advantage of innocent people. It was filled with Read More

Fr. Glenn: Who Among Us Is Greatest?

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Hmmm … so many videos nowadays of people shoplifting, stealing, attacking the weak, etc. Now we have to wait for the clerk to come open the case even for a can of $1 shaving cream! But, if they’re locking it up, that means people are stealing it. Sigh. No wonder Amazon stock keeps going up; at least with them you don’t have to go through the hassle (and often the danger, in larger cities) of going shopping, waiting for clerks to unlock, broken carts, etc.

One wonders where the sense of honor has gone, much less the simple sense of right and wrong and respect for property. Of course there Read More

All Shall Be Well: Longing For Home

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All Shall Be Well
Guest Column by
Chuck McCullough

We drove for seemingly endless miles through the verdant countryside, a couple of small boxes containing the ashes of mom and dad carefully nestled in the trunk of the car. Our destination was the old cemetery, located not far from where we had grown up, where generations of our family lay in quiet repose. Our parents had chosen this resting place years ago.

As I stepped out of the air-conditioned minivan that late summer morning, my senses were Read More

Biblical Archaeologist To Speak In Los Alamos April 28

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Dr. Steven Collins, PhD

Los Alamos Church of Christ News:

The Los Alamos Church of Christ will be hosting Dr. Steven Collins, PhD, for a lecture open to the community from 9-10:30 a.m. and at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28. 

Among a varitey of biblical archaeology topics Dr. Collins will discuss is the identity of the Egyptian Pharoh at the time of Moses as well as recent findings at the site of Sodom and Gomorah.

Dr. Collins is among the world’s foremost biblical archaeologists. He is Director of the School of Archaeology at Veritas International University and serves as Consulting Research Professor Read More

Fr. Glenn: Finding Peace

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Heavy sigh.

I just heard of (yet another) taking of one’s own life. It seems to be so frequent these days, especially among young people. I saw a stat the other day that we’ve lost more military and veterans to suicide than to the Gulf War and the conflicts thereafter. Why so much angst in so many?

Well, the reasons are no doubt as varied as the tragedies. A lot comes from despair in finding paths out of abusive relationships, being sunk into alcoholism or depression, fear, hopelessness, forlorn love, money problems … the list can go on. And, I think, a lot of it might be avoided—or at Read More

All Shall Be Well: Easter Laugh

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Clergy from left, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Deacon  Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, Associate Priest Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By LYNN FINNEGAN
Associate Priest
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith
Santa Fe

“Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy.” Psalm 126:2

“Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.” Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr

Easter, despite the reduced-price candy sales at Smith’s, is not over. Easter is a season, not a day, and it lasts fifty days. “Seasons” Read More