A communications initiative to tell the Episcopal Church's story was launched on Ash Wednesday at www.episcopalchurch.org where visitors will find a new interactive feature called "I Am Episcopalian."

Robert Prechtor published a book in 2002, "Conquer the Crash", which not only warned of the current financial crisis but also explained how to prepare for it. The basis of his insight is based on the Elliott Wave Principle. The Elliott Wave Principle is based on the Wave Principle which is a detailed description of how groups of people behave. It reveals that mass psychology swings from pessimism to optimism and back in a natural sequence, creating specific and measurable patterns.

A few St. Thomas' parishioners got together August 26th at the HRC Center to watch a brilliant performance by Peterson Toscano in a one-person play about certain characters in the Bible that have very non-traditional gender roles. Now I was pretty skeptical right off the bat because I'm thinking, "I don't recall any transsexuals in my King James Bible, and I'm pretty sure that would've caught my attention!" The play really had less to do with the physical aspects of being transsexual, but rather the unconventional roles of some of these biblical characters.

Albert Borgmann’s Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (1984) contributed immensely to the emerging philosophical discussions of issues surrounding modern technology. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana, specializing in the philosophy of technology. According to Borgmann technology is the key mediating factor in our interaction with the world, and commodification has become the central driving force, accompanied by ever new forms of technology.

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