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The Lost art of blogging
Graeme Philipson July 17, 2007 *Australians are just a blip on the global blogosphere. Why is it so?* Australians don’t blog as much as people in other countries. Why is it so? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? I came across a major article in Business Week recently about the “blogosphere” […]
Befriending Life: Encounters With Henri Nouwen
Befriending Life: Encounters With Henri Nouwen. Edited by Beth Porter, with Susan Brown and Philip Coulter. Double-day, 275 pp., $21.95. HIS PRIMARY expectation was that you keep your heart open to life,” writes Fred Bratman of his friend Henri Nouwen. That Bratman, who is a marketing executive at a New York investment bank and Jewish, […]
Faith on Idle (2 Thessalonians 3:6-13)
by Michael Battle Michael Battle is assistant professor of spirituality and black church studies at Duke University and vice chair of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. This article appeared in The Christian Century, October 24-31, p. 17. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. —————————— “For we hear that some of […]
Islamic militancy
Roots of rancor: examining Islamic militancy – Cover Story – Statistical Data Included Christian Century by Charles A. Kimball COMMENTARY SINCE September 11 has produced a cognitive dissonance among Americans about Islam, the world’s second largest religious tradition. On the one hand, selected Muslim leaders declare that “Islam is a religion of peace” and President […]
What is a Grandparent?
(taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds) Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of her own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see them. They […]
Colours
I didn’t know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, “Grandma, I […]
Thanks for Your Time
It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no […]
The Necklace
The cheerful little girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box. “Oh mommy please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?” Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box […]
The New Atheists…
The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it Anti-faith proselytising is a growth industry. But its increasingly hysterical flag-bearers are heading for a spectacular failure Madeleine Bunting Monday May 7, 2007 The Guardian It’s an extraordinary publishing phenomenon – atheism sells. Any philosopher, professional polemicist or scientist with worries about their […]
Important Articles etc.
From a friend in the UK: A lot of my reading recently, to state it as succinctly as I can, has related to the role of faith in our society. With the problems of Islamic terrorism in our country there is an upsurge in secularism and atheism (as well as fear and intolerance). Two books […]
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