The President's Devotional, Vatican On Divorce, Dalai Lama's 'Weakness'

October 22, 2013 Subscribe · Forward The Man Behind The President's Devotional On December 14, 2012, Joshua Dubois was sitting at his desk in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships when he began to see the news reports of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut. That Saturday, President Barack Obama asked Dubois to accompany him to Newtown, where the president would meet with the families of the victims and address the interfaith memorial service. Dubois remembers watching the president ask each of the people to tell him about their loved ones who had been killed. The president did this for hours, going from room to room, acknowledging the pain of the families and offering any comfort he could. One morning during that trying time, Dubois sent Obama an email that contained the scripture passage Luke 22:52-53, called Darkness Hour, based on a quote from Jesus, who told the guards who had come to arrest him, "This is your hour, and the power of darkness." Dubois explained to me that he sent the scripture to the president with a reflection on "the responsibility of us, the people of light, to push through that darkness and in the middle of the night to ask God to remind us that daybreak will come." Continue reading... Gun Death And Bringing America Back to Life Vatican Crushes Debate Over Remarried Catholics Saudi Clerics Protest Women Driving Baptist Pastor Resigns After Marrying Woman How Much These Executive Religious Do-Gooders Get Paid 10 Things You Should Know About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape Where Ja Rule Is Finding God Baptist Pastor Resigns After Marrying Woman 10 Things You Should Know About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape LISA SHARON HARPER The 'S' Word, the 'D' Word and 12 Years a Slave McQueen's unflinching revelation of Northup's struggle to maintain his dignity under the oppressive institution of slavery is a chance for Americans to engage the conversation we so desperately need -- the conversation about the "s" word -- "slavery." Continue reading... DEEPAK CHOPRA What Would God Think of the God Particle? Part 1 The award of the Nobel Prize in physics generally creates a mental blur for most people, since no one can comprehend the current state of physics without training in advanced mathematics. This year was somewhat different, thanks to a nickname. Continue reading... RON KRONISH Jews and Muslims -- Coexistence Is Possible, in America and in Israel For many years, I have been promoting the idea that Muslim-Jewish coexistence in Israel is possible. Continue reading... REV. ROMAL J. TUNE Church Partnerships Working to Stop School-to-Prison Pipeline The school-to-prison pipeline is real, and as people of faith we have a responsibility to protect the dreams and futures of the most vulnerable among us -- our children. Continue reading... RABBI EITAN WEBB The Land That I Will Show You This conflict is core to the Jewish belief system. In the book of Bereishis (Genesis), Abraham, the forefather of the Jewish people, is called by G-d and told to "go for yourself, from your land, and from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you." Why would G-d do this? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003