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Men in our culture
Men, in our culture, have carried a special burden of unconsciousness, of ignorance of the self. The unexamined life has been worth quite a lot in economic terms. It has enabled us to increase the gross national product yearly. It may not be necessary to be a compulsive extrovert to be financially successful, but it […]
Melancholy
In Praise of Melancholy American culture’s overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life Poem: Ode on Melancholy Excerpt: Born To The Blues By ERIC G. WILSON Ours are ominous times. We are on the verge of eroding away our ozone layer. Within decades we could face major oceanic flooding. We are […]
Who Moved My Cheese?
By Spencer Johnson Putnam; 95 pages When this slim volume made its first appearance 10 years ago, it was vying for attention with Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton scandal. Monica won. But Cheese slowly began to gain traction in corporate circles, even though critics dissed it as an overly broad parable that could be understood […]
Quotes about ultimate matters
Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to find a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to discover the mystery of forgiveness, we will soon be disappointed. ~ Jean Vanier, Community and Growth When we […]
The Shack: more notes
First, visit http://jmm.org.au/articles/21957.htm for my review of The Shack. Here are some jottings which didn’t make it there: * ‘Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? — George Bernard Shaw. A good quote for those ‘Reformed’ rationalistic types who decry God’s gift of imagination – which […]
The Shack
THE SHACK: Review by Rowland Croucher Part I: A Preamble Religious books become best-sellers when they connect with our deep questions and tragic/meaningful experiences. Some become classics, others may be left behind with the detritus of literary or theological history. Wm. Paul Young’s The Shack (2007) is a best-seller (over 1 million copies by June […]
The Shack
THE SHACK: Part I: A Preamble Books become best-sellers when they connect with our deep questions and tragic/meaningful experiences. Some become classics, others may be left behind with the detritus of literary or theological history. Wm. Paul Young’s The Shack (2007) is a best-seller (it’s knocked Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven books off a few perches) but […]
Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope
A Review of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope by Mike Crowl, Sep 21, 2008 Wright has several things he wants to put across in this book, but there are two particular ones that stand out for me. Firstly he wants to encourage the church to change its view of what happens to us after death, […]
F W Boreham: A Packet of Surprises
F W Boreham: A Packet of Surprises, John Broadbanks Publishing, 2008 I’ve been a Boreham collector for 50 years, and have often reflected on why he’s still so popular. Yes, he’s an outstanding wordsmith (how often have you alluded to ‘rich clusters of tawny filberts’ in passing?); yes, he’s widely read (at least a book […]
Eugene Peterson: The Jesus Way: A Conversation in Following Jesus (2007)
Presbyterian scholar-pastor Eugene Peterson – one of the half-dozen most-read Evangelical writers in the English-speaking world today – has probably never had an ‘unpublished thought’. He brings to his craft an unusual combination of gifts and experience: some unique (for American conservatives) insights into pastor-as-spiritual director, rather than pastor as CEO; a thorough knowledge of […]
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