Bush and Worshipping in China

WASHINGTON — Aides organizing President Bush’s trip to China for the Olympics considered having him worship at a house church, one of the underground religious institutions that routinely face official harassment, but the Chinese authorities ruled it out.

Pastors, lawyers and other political activists whom Mr. Bush considered meeting in Beijing as a signal of support have instead been ordered by the Chinese authorities to leave the city during the president’s visit. Scores of others have been arrested.

While he evidently will not worship at an underground church, Mr. Bush does plan to attend services on Sunday at the Beijing Kuanjie Protestant Church, one of the most prominent of those officially registered by the government. (And then, that night, he will watch Kobe Bryant and the rest of USA Basketball play China.)

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Woman clones puppies from late pit bull terrier

SEOUL, South Korea – Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world’s first successful commercial canine cloning service.

Seoul-based RNL Bio said the clones of Bernann McKinney’s dog Booger were born last week after being cloned in cooperation with a team of Seoul National University scientists who created the world’s first cloned dog in 2005.

“It’s a miracle!” McKinney repeatedly shouted Tuesday when she saw the cloned Boogers for which she paid $50,000.

“Yes, I know you! You know me, too!” McKinney said joyfully, hugging the puppies, which were sleeping with one of their two surrogate mothers, both Korean mixed breed dogs.

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WifeGeeding Book Report Part 1

Keith and I met Margaret Feinberg about 2 years ago at Irving Bible Church where she was the guest speaker for young adults. During her presentation a video clip was shown in which Keith and two others had been previously interviewed by the Bible Communities pastor. Keith must have made some comment about his blog during the interview because Margaret was fascinated by the number of people who visit this blog daily. After the presentation Keith and I visited with Margaret and found it very easy to talk to her. In fact, I took my glass eye out for her to see! I never do that to strangers! As the evening came to an end we bought a few of her books and thanked her for coming—not thinking we would continue to have her in our lives. A year later Margaret came back to IBC for the FUSION conference. She first spoke in a large group then held a breakout session that Keith and I attended. This time I had to take my eye out for her husband! Since then Margaret checks out Keith’s blog from time to time as we do to her blog. About 2 weeks ago she emailed Keith and asked him if he would be interested in reading her new book, The Sacred Echo, and then blogging about it. Keith is not much of a reader so I will be a guest writer on his blog for a few weeks as I read the book. At the back of the book is a “Reflections” section in which the reader can reflect on the chapter just read through questions and scripture. I will be keeping a journal with my answers to these questions, but will just share a concept, phrase, or story from the chapter that was most meaningful to me on the blog. Hopefully, my comments will intrigue you to read the book.

Margaret writes this book to share her “sacred echoes” with us. What are sacred echoes? Margaret describes it as “the persistent voice of God.” For example, haven’t you ever wondered if God is speaking to you during a sermon or song or if it’s just your emotions? I know I have. That is where the sacred echoes come into play. Feinberg writes, “The repetitive nature of a sacred echo gives me confidence that God is really prompting, guiding, or leading. It reminds me to pay close attention; something important may be going on here. The sacred echo challenges me to prayerfully consider how God is at work in my own life as well as the lives of those around me. The sacred echo is an invitation to spiritual awakening.” I pray that I as I read this book I will begin to hear the “sacred echoes” in my life.

Here is a statement that really stood out to me in the chapter titled, “Exposed”.

”I want a relationship with God where prayer is as natural as breathing. If God is the one in whom we are to live and move and have our being, then I want my every inhale infused with his presence, my every exhale an extension of his love.”

Isn’t that beautiful!?

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