Interesting stuff doesn’t always roll across the newswire, but two things things this week had me stop minute to say “Hmmmm”.

First, was a story regarding the Vatican’s decision to add additional “sins” to the list in order to relate create more relevance to 21st Century Life.  These new sins address things like “pollution” and “excessive wealth”.  Although I am not Catholic, I had two thoughts.  On one end I thought, “Is this necessary?”  On the other end I was thinking “Didn’t Jesus talk to the Pharisee’s about this very thing?”  I won’t delve into the latter because I’m sure that is a big loaded question I’ll just leave it for you to ponder - but relative to the first, maybe it’s not so bad to create some moral dialogue about how God wants us to behave and treat the world in a post-modern society.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion … 3-10-vatican_N.htm?csp=34

Second, and perhaps more lightly, is this story about American Indians who apparently share the same lineage to 6 women living 18,000 to 20,000 years ago.  Now, I have to admit, that up until now I thought of Adam and Eve as more of a metaphor or allegorical story.  (Does that make me a bad Christian?) But, this story caused my interpretation great pause.  If the American Indian peoples spread across our continent are related to only six women, is it that much more of a stretch to think of a single woman as the mother of all peoples?  Perhaps it isn’t much of a stretch at all…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_sc/native_american_dna

How is that for some deep thoughts on a Thursday?

Dan