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Show The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGION Saturday, May 2, 1998 Bouquets Will Help Parochial Schools’ Coffers Bloom Connecticut priest makes deal with national florist network for 10 percentof sales to be donated to Catholic education BY GERALD RENNER = network ofee anyone may participate in program by dialing 1-800-FLOWERS (356- RELIGION NEWS SERVICE lie flowers” or code 463. (The numbers 463 pal ad on the telephone keypad.) “That was Fa- for promotion has raised tens of thousands of dollars for charities has come up smelling like roses with his latest idea. ther Ed’s idea, too,” Curci said. In a deal struck with a national network of 2,500 florists, the Rev. Edmund S. Nadolny, sometimes known as the “pierogi priest” for an earlier fund- from flowers ordered through Code 463 and sends raising effort. has arranged that 10 percent of the taoney people spend on flowers may be donated to a parochial schoolof their choice. “This is a unique way of helping Catholic education,”said Nadolny, pane of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Jay Curci, manager of partnerships andalliances for 1.800.FLOWERS,said the program has implications for all charities, not just Catholic schools. “Father Ed is a cool gay. He came to us with the idea,” Curci said. “Any charity interested in a similar pro; can call me.” Underthe pian worked out between the priest and Each quarier the network reviews the saniings 10 percentto the ee designated by the callors. The flowers don’t cost callers more because the proceeds come from the florists’ pockets in exchange for Nadoiny’s promotional efforis. Curei said it's a win-win idea. Money goes to a worthy cause and the fioral industry gets good public relations. The network’s 2,500-member florists across the country cooperate in making overnight deliveries. Nadoiny said he is sending ietters to superintendents of 7,000 Catholic schools in the United States expl. the program.Later, he said, he will write to Catholic parishes, monasteries and other Catholie charities to include them as recipients in the pro- Christianity Hardly as Scary as Authoritarian Lexicon Suggests rowed ground of soviful exploration. The DENVER — Adult survivors of bad Sunday schooling, take heart. Kathleen Norris has another book. It addresses whatshe calls the scary lexi- con of Christianity, those words from “‘be- lief” to “truth,” “commandment”to “‘sal- vation,” that have kept so many people — including Norris for 20 years — resolutely outside any church. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith takes on the “real questions people have aboutfaith in the modern era: How can you believe this stuff? How can you find good where [ see only prejudice, sexism and evil? I don’t understand.” Neither did Norris, who walked away from religious childhocd to becomea secular poet. Then,in her 30s, she began find- ing refuge and redemption in the Psalms, the poetry of the Bible. Sheis 50 now,and, she says, “This book has been germinatingiin mea long time.” Norris turned back toward God through stories, silence and singing. Tedey she says faith savedherlife, the life of her husband, poet David Dwyer, who fought through se- vere depression, and thelife of their marriage. Words were the way. VESate 53 wwe.wileytoora.com aici com “Words like ‘righteous.’ I always heard it as ‘ ’ when it really means Fehon in God’s eyes. ‘Perfection’ was Leader Chosen for Orthodoxin Greece A reformer has been chosen the new head of the Orthodox Church in Greece. . Metropolitan Christodoulos, 59, was elected arch“pishop of the Orthodox Church in Greece Tuesday by ee ee ea fae Tecan. 42.08 76 yolce cast, the Associated Press reported. Christodoutos replaces Archbishop Seraphim, who died April 9 at age 84. — Religion News Service BULLETIN BOARD Compiled by Amelia Platt another key word. It doesn’t mean Martha Stewart. It means ripe. It means being who you were intended to be before God.” Amazing Graceis thelast ofa trilogy of religious rediscovery. Thefirst two, Dako- ta: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk were best sellers. Critics praised her lyrical insights; readers, her luminescent mind and the absence of ostentatious piety and jargon. In Dakota (1993), the earth and earthy people of the western Plains were the fur- QO ’ Holladay Baptist Church Pastor Calvin Partain begin a three-week course on the Gospel, Sunday, 4:45 p.m, at the church, 2780 E, 3900 South, Salt LakeCity. Call JeQuita at 277-9412. LUTHERAN The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will holdits annual yard/bakesale today, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the church, 8575 S. 700 East, Sandy, Call 255-8181. a 0 METHODIST CATHOLIC St. Peter's Council of Catholic Women will hold “Bunco Nite,” May 9,7 p.m., at St. Peter's Catholic Mission, 622 N. 600 East, American Fork. Cost is $4 per person or $6 per couple. Call (801) 768-3125. Shall the Twain Ever Meet? The Hilltop United Methodist Church will hold a children’s and maternity consignmentsale today, 8 a.ra. to 1 p.m., at the church, 985 E. 10600 South, Sandy. Call Melinda at 262-9457. The Centenary Methodist Church will The goal is to create what is called a TOE — a Theory of Everything. Such a mathematical an Greene, author of the soon-tobe-published book, The Elegant Universe. te That framework is under con"struction around the globe. At Columbia University, sciensts are building one of the world's fastest supercomputers, sfully dedicated to simulating the ‘trillion-degree conditions at the ‘momentof creation when the unisverse consisted of a boiling plas‘me the sixe of a dime. High atop Mauna Kea at Ha- owaii's Keck Observatory, astrono- ‘pand out forever into coamic flat soda pop. lion of that since they make up 22 percent of the population. “There are 450,000 Catholic funerals and 300,000 Catholic weddings [cach year] in addition to Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine’s Day. Money spent on flowers is just phenomenal.” the globe is strongerthan ever and is expected to increase weil into the next iliennium. ReoCray posekest se s ton, Vt., and years as a writer in New York City. She’s the granddaughter of a Methodist minister who settled in the Dakotas. In 1874 she moved into her mother’s childhood house to managie the family farmlands. In 1985 she joined the Presbyterian church down the street where her maternal grandmother once worshipped. Tn 1986 she became a lay associate, an oblate, of St. John’s Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Collegeville, Minn., “‘a school for love.” She has vowed to pursue “holy reading and holy neighborliness” within the context of ter life as 3 married, Protestant writer and teacher. She scoffs at the casserole religions people cook up — “a little something Native American, something Buddhist, very little from Christianiity, however. And none of it with any real understanding of how offensive that might be to the people who find those faiths deeply meaningful.” She biasis “the narcissistic babble that masks itself as spirituality, the convention- al jargon of evangelism, which can narrow all of Christendom down to ‘Jesus and me.’ ‘That kind of obsession with personal salvation shortchanges your religion and shortchanges yourself. “The Bible says, ‘Where two or three are gathered ether in my name, there am I’ | LOSChef OF ml a8% 152% 152m413% H19% | ‘Source:Intemational Bulletin of Missionary Research’ January 1998 ” sitting happy alone ona hillside, there am lL at the church, 1740 S. 500 East, Salt Lak City. Call 485-9831. Author Jack Miles, whose book, God: A Bit Schoolin California and a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly. He worked for 10 years at the Los ies Times., In the MeMurrin lecture, Miles will address how the Savironmentalist movement has changed so- gion and the World Ecology Crisis,” will begin at 7:30 p.m.in the Gould Auditorium at the Marriott and explore the implication of those changes for religions doc- Milesis director of the Humanities Center at Claremont Graduate any mysterious creator with a fully knowable explanation of first causes. God in this context of physical creation becomes a bolic term, much like Jupiter or Apollo. Others, and they include physicists, see just the opposite. The morethat is reveated about the embryonic universe, the more ap- parenta creator's hand becomes. They have formulated what is known as the peas! Princi- ple. This says the basic properties of the universe, such the precise relationship between its forces and matter, were calibrated at the exact levels needed to create @ life-sustaining cosmos. Anyslight tinkering would result in a radically different uni- verse, one without stars like our 7038. MThe Wasatch Presbyterian Church is offering a series of classes every Sunday through May 17, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the church, 1626 S. 1700 East, Salt Lake City. Call 487-7576. iy, am, at the chureh, 2818 'E. 2100 South, Salt LakeCity. Call 486-0522. o The First Presbyterian Church will present the premiere of Richard Smith's orchestral work Mountain Requiem, Sunday, 7 p.m, ae 12 St, Salt LakeCity. Call 363me NONDEHOMNATIONAL The Transition Wednesday, 7:90 pm. at the First Unitarian Church, 589 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City. Call 486-3930. ‘a PRESBYTERIAN UNITARIAN The starring Forthe universe to arise from a through a junkyard. Indeed, genuine theological curiosity is creeping up in the writ- ly those church, 6876 S. 2000 East, Sandy, Tickets are available at the door and are $10. Call 944-9703. ig else, Butthere is a legitimate dialogue to be had be- tween science and religion, and many people are now ae it, Despite its civility, this gray- and author Steven Weinberg vocabulary amounts to nothing “It is possible for a belief in Ss “)be in consonance with the of modern science,” said Too Haught, a theology profes- gor at Geo wn University and A Brief History of Time, sat on The New York Times best-seller list for weeks, Australian physicist Paul Davies hysicist John Polling orne in the best-sellers that attempt to span the ancient chasm between reason and faith. Hawking's book, It's a very sober, reasoned dia- logueso it doesn’t attract a lot of sensational attention.” area discussion rankles some sci- ae written elegantly on the link between science and faith, sifting through fundamental physics for signs of where divine action intersects with the know. able laws of nature. trine and practices, said Greg Kempat the Tanner Humanities Center at the U. — Peggy Fletcher Stack Leaders Voice Opposition to Persecution Bill BY IRA RIFKIN RELIGION NEWSSERVICE WASHINGTON — Efforts to derail a proposed bill in Congress that would trigger automatic sanctions against natibns found to persecute religious minorities ac- celerated this week-on Capitol Hill and at the White House. On Tuesday, the Natidnal Coun- entists. They claim that couching fundamental physics in religious more than the shameless selling of science to a reading audience hungry for mysticism. Others fear a small radical fringe is turning physics into a new kind of fundamentalism not content to remain merely a branch of cold,rational science. Cornell physicist David Mermin notes that scientists like Albert Einstein long have used God as a shorthand reference to “the nature of things,” but anything past that pushes divinity onto a stage where it never was meant to per- form. “God in the religious senso is not part of the vocabylary of i ) lim religious leaders to Capitol Hill to outline why they caer the proposed Amien Rais, who Chairs a 28million member Indonesian Mus- ence as this imperialistic institution with the intentof eliminating whostudy the physics of the early universe. In his book The Mind of God, suggests the laws of physics reveal an underlying plan at work. ae University jest cial, political and scientific thought Kathryn Warner, today, 7:30 p.m., at the The Presbyterian Men of Salt Luke will hold an Ecumenical Multi-Ethnic Song pointof infinite density to create ings of scientists, Lake City. Call Arthur Halloway at 48¢- o dentally creating a 747 as it whirls Some scientists feel this research eventually wil) supplant byterian Church, 1700 E. 1700 South, Sait NAZARENE By Monica Seaberry and Mike Paquette ©et1998 Raligion News Sereite- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Speak afU.ofU. Sistthew 18:20). It doesn’t’ say, ‘If you are where they all came from, and whatwill becomeof them. Herein eS childhood in Honolulu,college in Benning- manifesto would explain all the matter and forces in the universe, sun, or water or oxygen. motions over the years. In the early 1980s he was so appailed at the plightof the famine-stricken Ethiopians he raised 000 to build wells in 192 villages. He thinks his floral scheme maybe his best ever. “People spend $14 billion 2 year on flowers,” Nadolny said. “Catholics probably account for $3 bil- gradual secularizationa life.” Norris has come to her book by way of a life purely by accident, Anthropic Principle proponents claim, is about as likely as a tornadoacci- lies Hawking’s “mind of God.” @ Continued from C-1 mushrooms. “T've been known as the Pierogi Priest. Now they will call me the Fiower Priest,” Nadolny said. Nadoluy has been involved with many other pro- etepesousldontiicaton around ject matter possibie: how oneae to fan a today, 9 a.m. to noon,at the church, 2425 E. BAPTIST stuffed with potatoes, cheese, cabbage and/ or Cee te Fest, Sunday, 3 p.m., at the Wasatch Pres- JEWISH The C ion Kol Ani will present a service of traditional Jewish background Heritage Way, Salt Lake City. Call 4841501, Faith and Physics: gical year of a Benedictine mo. Amazing Grace's short stories and essays detail the church of humanity. Psychia' trista and social critic Robert Coles calls Norris voice of modern sensibility,eeeoe grammatic,” addressing “thi school. fe an- Not Dead During the 1960s, some sietheo = inent theologia ans edectared Cloister Watk (1996)ia tramed by the litur- BY USA TODAY more money for his other promotion, still ongoing, Nadvlny has $70,000 for the school through the sale of $1.5 million in handmade pierogis, a sort of Polish ravioli God Is Authorfinds joy foreboding j behind i seemingly i i aspects ofreligion igi BY CATHY LYNN GROSSMAN Nadolnysaid he thought up theides aes reaas of ar‘aed in’Westbury, N.Y., and mentioning HARTFORD,Conn. — A parish priest whose flair Nobel Prize-winning physicist hopes a Theory of Ev ing will put an end to alll ofthis, “eliminating the wishful thinking, supersti- tion and mysticism that ades so much human thought,” and with it the four-century-old debate between physics and the church. But howlikely is that? Consider one of the best candi- dates to date for a Theory of Everything, dubbed string theory. It says everything is made up of infinitesimally smallstringy loops that create different kinds of fundamental matter and energy by vibrating at different frequen- cles, If this is meant to supplant the — critics of any sort of final secular Theory of Everything maintain, the ies of creation never have safer A lim group called Muhamadiyah, said the bill could gubject religious minorities to additional secution because they be ee for whatever ‘economic and social woes requlted from y , President Clinton told members of the National Association of Evangelicals gath- ered at the White House that automatic sanctions could encouragepresidents to intentionally overiook religious persecution. The evangelical leaders were urged by the president to with- draw their previously announced support for the proposed bill. The bill focuses on the most egregious acts of persecution — such as violent attacks and en- slavement — that supporters say are common inst us minorities in some Muslim countries as well as communist nations. ‘The Clinton administration has argued automstic sanctions i foree the White House to some of this nation's major allies and trade partnore, : L |
