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The Cricketer’s Depression
June 21, 2011 Marcus Trescothick: Depression and me Marcus Trescothick talks about the illness that ended his England career and his enduring determination to be the best As run after run flows from his majestic bat, Marcus Trescothick no longer sings to himself with quite the same anxious need. But sometimes, during a tricky patch […]
Keeping the child’s gender a secret
STORM IN A TEACUP Author: Jayme Poisson Date: 09/07/2011 A Canadian couples decision to conceal their babys gender has set tongues wagging. Here, the inside story of this unusual family, their battle with convention, and the tyranny of pronouns . So it’s a boy, right?” a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four-month-old […]
Hippies, Fathers, and Forgiveness
©2011 by Gordon Dalbey _www.abbafather.com_ ( http://www.abbafather.com/) Late in the summer of 1969, I reached out hopefully, thumb raised high, beside a shady two-lane road in the redwood country of Northern California. My VW bug had died months before, and–as commonly done in that more innocent age–I was hitchhiking home from visiting a friend in […]
Empathy makes the world go round
Simon Baron-cohen June 26, 2011 The ability to see through another’s eyes is a crucial human trait; we all suffer in its absence. WHEN I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. Just one of those comments you hear once and the thought never goes away. I […]
The Perfect Husband
Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A mobile phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: “Hello” WOMAN: “Hi Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?” MAN: “Yes.” WOMAN: “I'm at […]
Is “Chick Lit” Just Emotional Porn?
A look at the darker side of romance novels. On the nightstand of a woman you know, there ¢â‚¬â„¢s a Christian romance novel and a Bible. Does that matter? On the Kindle of a one of your female friends, there ¢â‚¬â„¢s a ¢â‚¬Å“young adult ¢â‚¬ fiction bestseller. Does that matter? A new book by Boston University researchers Ogi […]
The Usefulness of (some) laws
Without law in some form, and also without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily and naturally. The rebellions of two-year-olds and teenagers are in our hardwiring, and we have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against – to test our mettle. Richard Rohr, Falling Upward, 26 ¢â‚¬Å½’As Rilke put […]
Bus Rapid Transit Networks
TIME | May 2, 2011 By Ayesha and Parag Khanna On April 5, Luciano Ducci, the mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, boarded the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s largest urban bus on its inaugural ride across town, marking yet another coup for the city ¢â‚¬â„¢s transportation system. Powered exclusively by biofuels (made from soybeans), the 92-ft.-long (28 m) megabus can carry […]
Carl Rogers: pros and cons
Note from Rowland: I’ve learned something from Carl Rogers’ ‘non-directive’ therapeutic approach: how to listen empathetically to someone’s story without being invasive/intrusive with my own questions and comments. Something I didn’t learn: Rogers’ idea that the solutions to pretty-well all of a person’s problems lie within themselves, and shouldn’t be imposed from outside/above/anywhere else… Update […]
Suffering and knowing God
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I have mentioned previously that one thing I have noticed over the years of my Christian walk is that the people who really know God, who really know the heart of God, are people who have known what it is to deeply suffer. It is deeply wounded people who know […]
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