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Who Buys What in Christian Bookstores?
From a friend: Victor V Bryditzki “The $elling Of Je$u$: The Confessions of a Christian Bookstore Owner”(Chick Publications:1985) At $1 (AU) this book was way overpriced but I decided to buy it for the following quote ……….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Who Comes In And What Do They Buy? Surveys indicate that less than 10% of active church […]
Beliefnet’s Film Awards for 2008
Beliefnet just announced the winners for the fourth annual Beliefnet Film Awards. Please find the winners for Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance, and Best Spiritual Documentary, as well as links to the film galleries below. Best, Rebecca February 2009 Best Spiritual Film * “Wall-E” – Winner of the Judges’ Award * “Gran Torino” – […]
John Updike, 1932-2009: a glance at his theology
Ben Myers http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/ reckons Updike “is the most /theological/ novelist you’ll ever come across”… Wednesday, 28 January 2009 I was very sad to hear that one of my favourite contemporary novelists, John Updike, has died. Updike was deeply influenced by Kierkegaard and Karl Barth; he is the most theological novelist you’ll ever come across. In […]
Updike’s Motions of Grace
*Sightings* 2/5/09 — M. Cooper Harriss * * John Updike, who died last week at 76, has found valediction in the interim as a literary giant—a novelist and short story writer, a poet, and a critic. *Chicago Tribune *culture writer Julia Keller places him in a foursome with Norman Mailer, Phillip Roth, and Saul Bellow […]
Showers of Blood: The Cosmology of Charles Fort
*Sightings* 1/29/09 — P. Genesius Durica In December 2008 scientists working in France announced the discovery of sugar molecules in the far reaches of the Milky Way. Soon to be published in *Astrophysical Journal Letters*, these findings increase the odds that life exists on other planets. Someone who’d not have been surprised by sugar in […]
Our deepest fear… (Nelson Mandela)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There […]
A New Professional: The Aims of Education Revisited
Parker J. Palmer From Change November/December 2007 I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty To know what occurs but not recognize the fact. —William Stafford I was born in 1939, so my first few years on earth intersected with the Holocaust. And yet, as I was growing up on the North […]
Book Review: A Different World
Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough. I previously reviewed, on this website, Don Fleming’s book “Across the Bridge”. While I gave that book a mixed review, this is not the case with “A Different World” (an older book), which Fleming most recently sent me. While Fleming’s book “Across the Bridge” seemed to me to be too much […]
An Inner Life with New Meaning
*Sightings * 1/22/09 — Krista Tippett As the indicators by which we’ve measured our collective well-being in recent years continue to plummet, I found a conversation with Parker Palmer echoing in my head. He and I spoke years ago on the radio program *Speaking of Faith* about his mid-life experience of clinical depression, about which […]
Movie Review – The Day the Earth Stood Still
This remake of the 1951 classic of the same name reminds you of Abraham pleading with God to save the city of Sodom in Genesis 18. Just as in that dark episode of humanity’s history, this movie encapsulates a pleading with the powers that be for mercy on the people of the earth. When a […]
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