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Cancer treatments: what works and what’s crazy?
Update (June 18, 2015) Summary of the latest Hospital Saga Briefly: Jan’s left arm and shoulder have been very painful – for over a month. Precursor to angina or other heart troubles or what? Saw a GP last Thursday, 4th – a stand-in for ours who wasn’t on duty that day – and when he […]
Changing Household/Marriage Arrangements in Australia
First: study these statistics. What do they tell us? GRAPHIC: Changing households Relationship to nominated household member 2011 % change since 2006 Husband, wife or partner in a registered marriage 7,647,044 6.8% Husband, wife or partner, de facto, opposite-sex 1,411,345 18.3% Husband, wife or partner, de facto, male same-sex 33,719 29.6% Husband, wife or […]
On Puritans and the Whooping Cough
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 9/17/2012 On Puritans and the Whooping Cough – Philippa Koch A whooping cough epidemic has spread in my home state of Washington. Depending on where you turn, you can read about the shamefully high number of incidences caused by the anti-vaccine […]
A Politician Father Mourns his Lost Son…
Dad & Dave Date September 15, 2012 Photographs courtesy of James Butt High plains drifters ¢â‚¬ ¦ John Button with sons James, at right, and David, on Victoria ¢â‚¬â„¢s Bogong High Plains in 1970. A respected minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, Senator John Button’s political skills hid a private inner despondency about the death […]
Richard Rohr wisdom
CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION Abraham Maslow points out in his ¢â‚¬Å“hierarchy of needs ¢â‚¬ that one cannot meet higher needs at any level of depth if the lesser needs are not first tended to. One cannot do an ¢â‚¬Å“end run ¢â‚¬ to levels of communion and compassion, for example, when one ¢â‚¬â„¢s basic security and survival needs have not […]
Romantic love
Romantic love is, at heart, the triumph of hormonal alchemy Rob Brooks February 14, 2012 ‘When we fall in love we surrender to natural obsession.’ Human coupling and relationships seethe with sexual conflict. VALENTINE’S Day. What’s not to love about overpriced roses, overbooked restaurants and overstuffed soft toys? It’s the day we render the most […]
THE LOVE OF A FATHER
By Keith Miller Today I came out of a “Tunnel” into a world that seems bright and filled with hope. I had been having the “blahs” again and had been stumbling through my days with a kind of grey feeling. And this-morning I wanted to shout at God, “Where did You go? Where are You?” […]
The Parents Poem (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly The Parents Poem It ¢â‚¬â„¢s a good idea to figure what to do with parents. One man I knew, after caring for them for years, Led them across a busy street ¢â‚¬”two lines of traffic. He started a lost colony for his parents. He bought them big boots and pith helmets. He sent his parents […]
Gay man opposes gay marriage
http://richardtwaghorne.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/gay-marriage/ Gay Marriage Posted on April 5, 2011 I am not a big believer in people making arguments on the back of who or what they happen to be. When I last made the case in these pages against gay marriage, about a year ago, I didn ¢â‚¬â„¢t feel the need to mention that I am […]
Being a Pastor Doesn’t Automatically Make You a Sex Therapist
Driscoll, ¢â‚¬Å“Real Marriage, ¢â‚¬ and Why Being a Pastor Doesn ¢â‚¬â„¢t Automatically Make You a Sex Therapist By Rachel Held Evans Evangelicals expect too much of their pastors. In addition to demanding they serve as nearly flawless leaders and teachers, many of us demand that our pastors serve as professional counselors and advisors, experts on everything […]
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