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C S Lewis: 50 years after his death
C S Lewis (1898-1963): two perspectives Today’s C S Lewis Reading (from HarperCollins ¢â‚¬â„¢ A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003): Screwtape offers a helpful image: Think of your man as a series of concentric circles, his will being the innermost, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy. […]
Why are Americans afraid to criticize Islam? (by a Muslim writer)
Losing my religion to Islamic radicals and Western progressives THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OCTOBER 29, 2014 LAST week a Canadian Muslim gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, killing a soldier and storming into the parliament building before he was shot dead. Authorities have since said he had applied for a passport to travel to […]
Sam Keen: writer extraordinaire…
Sam Keen Joy to the World Meditation on a Jay The Self ~~ Joy to the World Posted: 28 Oct 2014 This morning I notice a small bird trapped in my screen porch. My Birds of North America identifies it as a female Berwick ¢â‚¬â„¢s Wren ¢â‚¬Å“ distinguished from other wrens by its eye stripe, white under parts […]
Mysticism: in an Aboriginal Context
Headley Beare was a remarkable man – polymath, gifted teacher, educationalist, writer and communicator. From 1981 to 1995 he was a professor of education at Melbourne University. He believed that mystical awareness, insight and experience are available to all people, in all cultures and traditions, regardless of their theological/religious traditions. His book Dolphin’s Leap, Hind’s Feet […]
Pope Francis vs. Some of his Cardinals on Gay Issues
(Dr. Stuart Edser’s measured summary) (Check Search on this website for more of Dr. Edser’s excellent material) So, at the end of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, where exactly are we? The paragraph on gay people did not get through with a two thirds majority with the more pastoral language that welcomes gays and […]
Religion in America (Martin Marty October 2014)
Religion Unites or Divides by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 20 2014 Rally in Pensacola to support educators on trial in federal court for praying in school (2009) Image Credit: Cheryl Casey / shutterstock.com ¢â‚¬Å“ISIS CRISIS. ¢â‚¬ . . . ¢â‚¬Å“EBOLA CRISIS ¢â‚¬ . . . ¢â‚¬Å“ECONOMIC WORRIES ¢â‚¬ . . . Headlines about these and others […]
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ – like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others – speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com – or you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook. These speakers share their […]
THE FUTURE: 2044: What will it look like?
Some interesting prognostications in an article titled ‘A Brief History of the Future’ in The Age, Good Weekend, September 27, 2014: Government by machine: It’s already happening in the US and UK. Complain about your parking ticket and get a computerised response/decision. All your tax refunds will be machine-processed. A Jobless Future: 93% of all […]
Diverticulitis – Diet: Best and Worst Foods ???
Posted on to Facebook: I learned this week I have the beginnings of diverticulitis… Any wisdom about cure/ prevention from medicos/fellow-sufferers? Ahhhh Thats crappy. Sorry to hear that but if you get on top of it now you will feel a whl elot more comfortable. Back to basics for you mister. Diverticulitis OR diverticular disease??? […]
POT POURRI: worth pondering…
I’ll probably add a bunch of items-to-think-about regularly (from my reading/devotions etc.) A pot-pourri of items on this week’s pocket-list to ponder: Kierkegaard: Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards Yanis Varoufakis: A radical economist in the ’emperor has no clothes’ category. ‘The real purpose of right-wing politics is to […]
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