The third of the inaugural offerings, "In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art," installed in a basement gallery called the Lab, is the oddest, and the most interesting, to think about if not to look at.
Another thing one might want to consider is to "accept" the pain as an offering for past deeds needing forgiveness.
The State Department then tried to shrug off the deed, offering the self-contradictory explanation that the idea was simply to keep information flowing, not to interfere in Iranian politics.
The media smell blood: the influential New York Times has called for Mr Rumsfeld's head, as have several other dailies and the military's own Army Times (as well as The Economist see article).Moreover, by offering words but not deeds, Mr Bush may appear to the Muslim world to be showing only false contrition.
If no other remedy is available, consider offering the lender a "deed in lieu of foreclosure".
A little better is the tool kit of familiar types: the political churchman joining in civic debates, the doctrinal churchman teaching from the pulpit, the administrator making church agencies run smoothly or the comforter offering solace and performing good deeds.
It is interesting to reflect that the Roman Catholic Church, an all-too human institution with its share of evil thoughts acted out in deeds, is the denomination offering exorcisms.
Every March, people were obliged to go into the street to do good deeds: cleaning buses, fixing bicycles and offering haircuts.
By the end of the show, he is offering £300 to anyone who will change their name by deed poll, and a desperate, entire grand to the person who will christen their child Dave Gorman.
In an another recent move, Bank of America launched a pilot program called Mortgage to Lease, offering select homeowners an opportunity to surrender ownership in a deed in lieu of foreclosure and rent their home back from the bank to prevent foreclosure.
And he both accepts the deeds, and welcomes the intention, and honors the acts and praises the offering.
