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A Lawyer’s Prayers: Let the Little Children

The children were lined up for lunch in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school. At the head of the table was a pile of apples. The nuns had made a large sign, and posted it on the apple tray: “Take only ONE.  God is watching.” Farther along the lunch line, at the other end of the table, was a pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had scribbled a note, “Take all you want. God is watching the apples.”

Sweet joke. God is not, of course, stingy.  He made – and watches over – apples and chocolate chip cookies alike. Not to mention children. Continue reading

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Poison

Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of cobras” (Deut. 32: 33).

In Takhar province, Afghanistan, 160 school girls were poisoned this week. A puzzling headline, hardly a blip on the screen. But this is not the first instance of such poisoning. Last week, more than 120 school girls were hospitalized in another poisoning incident. In April, over 170 women and girls were poisoned by well water at a school. There have been other incidents in the past several years. Continue reading

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