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In Life Is Beautiful, Guido Orefice convinces his young son that the Nazi concentration camp is an elaborate game. Points for hiding, staying quiet, not asking for food. The grand prize: a real tank. Guido transforms horror into hope through relentless joy.
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Nehemiah Nehemiah was a powerful leader of God’s people living in Judea following the Exile. Nehemiah improved the morale and strength of God’s people in the midst of difficulty. Before Nehemiah returned to Judea, he was cup-bearer to Persian king Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC).
Neither Ezra nor Nehemiah originated this gathering—they obeyed "a popular impulse which they had not created." This is extraordinary because Ezra, who had labored thirteen years in Jerusalem fighting corruptions among the returned captives, had never before promulgated the law...
Here stood a cup-bearer in the Persian court of Artaxerxes at Shushan, a man whose position required such intimate access to power that he could omit the king's name from his record—assuming every reader knew his magnitude.
Nehemiah 4: From the underside of history, it meets us gently—names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.
Nehemiah 4: By prevenient grace, it invites a real response that grows into holy love.
Nehemiah 4: In God’s mission, it meets us gently—sends the Church to embody the Kingdom in word and deed.
Nehemiah 4: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Nehemiah 4: In God’s mission, it sends the Church to embody the Kingdom in word and deed.
Nehemiah 4: In the Church’s witness, it calls us to repent, believe, and walk in holy obedience.
Nehemiah 4: As Law and Gospel, it meets us gently—exposes our need and comforts us with Christ’s gift.
Nehemiah 4: On the path of theosis, it doesn’t flatter us—invites healing communion with God and a transfigured life.
Nehemiah 4: Within the deposit of faith, it draws us into grace through the Church’s sacramental life.
Nehemiah 4: In God’s mission, it doesn’t flatter us—sends the Church to embody the Kingdom in word and deed.
Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 calls the Church to praxis—faith that acts to transform structures—today, not someday.
Nehemiah 4: From the struggle for freedom, it proclaims hope, dignity, and God’s liberating justice.
Nehemiah 4: From the struggle for freedom, it doesn’t flatter us—proclaims hope, dignity, and God’s liberating justice.
Nehemiah 4: Through the margins, it doesn’t flatter us—demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.
Nehemiah 4: Through the margins, it demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.
Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 is a steady hand on the shoulder: God is near, and you are not alone in.
Nehemiah 4: With Scripture, Tradition, and Reason, it meets us gently—forms faithful worship and thoughtful public witness.
Nehemiah 4: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Nehemiah 4: Under God’s sovereignty, it doesn’t flatter us—magnifies grace and summons covenant faithfulness to God’s glory.
Nehemiah 4: Within the deposit of faith, it meets us gently—draws us into grace through the Church’s sacramental life.