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C S LEWIS: A Christian for all Christians (H&S 1990)

By and others ⋅ September 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

C S LEWIS: A Christian for all Christians (H&S 1990) Some rough notes after reading this interesting compendium of essays about the great man, in Macao September 2011: In Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, Lewis contemplates the possibility that creation is a tragedy, an inevitable separation of creatures from their divine ground. Students of […]

C S LEWIS: A Christian for all Christians (H&S 1990)

By and others ⋅ September 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Some rough notes after reading this interesting compendium of essays about the great man, in Macao September 2011: In Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, Lewis contemplates the possibility that creation is a tragedy, an inevitable separation of creatures from their divine ground. Students of the second century will hear in these words the voice […]

Review: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings

By and others ⋅ August 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Review: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings, (Selected and with an Introduction by his daughter, Susannah Heschel, Orbis, 2011) Abraham Heschel is one of the three or four most-read modern Jewish writers – by non-Jews – and probably the most popular Jewish theologian. This book is one of Orbis’ Modern Spiritual Masters series (other titles include […]

Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes

By and others ⋅ August 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

(From Wikipedia: watch this website for my review of his daughter’s book about her father). “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.” “All it takes is one person ¢â‚¬ ¦ and another ¢â‚¬ ¦ and another ¢â‚¬ ¦ and another ¢â‚¬ ¦ to start a movement” “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all […]

Who Is John Stott?

By and others ⋅ August 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The John Stott the World Knew Little About By  Anugrah Kumar |  Christian Post Contributor The journalist who famously described  John Stott as the presumptive  ¢â‚¬Å“pope ¢â‚¬  of the  evangelicals also complained that the world knew so little about the man who had won exceptional honors and was celibate, humble, articulate, and once even controversial. (Photo: Langham Partnership International) John […]

Bishop Gene Robinson: In the Eye of the Storm (2008)

By and others ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Bishop Gene Robinson is perhaps the third best-known Episcopal/Anglican bishop around the world (after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and Desmond Tutu): all because he ¢â‚¬â„¢s been  ¢â‚¬“ reluctantly  ¢â‚¬“ the  ¢â‚¬ËœMartin Luther ¢â‚¬â„¢ of a new reformation in the church, advocating equality for glbt people. Wikipedia tells us that  ¢â‚¬Ëœthe existence of homosexual bishops in […]

Andrew Greeley’s Chicago Catholics

By and others ⋅ December 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

*Sightings* 12/20/2010 – Martin E. Marty Father Andrew Greeley, friend, neighbor, sociologist, novelist, youngster ¢â‚¬”we were born on the same day, but he arrived three hours later ¢â‚¬”has published over 150 works of fiction and non-fiction. *Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church *is his final book. Final, that is, because two years ago he suffered […]

I Believe… (do you?)

By and others ⋅ December 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

if you make it to the end of this email, then you are a true believer… I Believe… That just because two people argue, It doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, It doesn’t mean they do love each other. I Believe… That we don’t have to change friends […]

Christopher Hitchens interview

By and others ⋅ November 30, 2010 ⋅ One comment

(I’m a fan of polemicist Christopher Hitchens, even though I disagree with him on most-points-theological. Use the Search facility to find other articles on this site about him. Rowland) Hitch in death ¢â‚¬â„¢s big plan Andrew Anthony November 27, 2010 His spirit has not been diminished by the cancer diagnosis, and the chemical cocktail of treatment […]

Paean: Tribute to a Teacher

By and others ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

By Harry T. Cook 11/26/10 Every time I pick up my fountain pen to write or sit down at my computer to compose an essay or work on a book manuscript, I think of him. His name was Leonard Clayton Bailey. He was my seventh- and eighth-grade teacher in a four-room schoolhouse in northern Michigan […]

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