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Of Hobbits and Wizards
Lessons for World Leaders and Teens from Tolkien¹s Epic Emmett Wiser Terrorism is testing the values of western culture like never before. As civilian populations from Baghdad and Jerusalem to London and New York face indiscriminate bombing from the skies and the streets, the temptation to answer terror with terror is always present. The earth¹s […]
Paradise (Toni Morrison) an excerpt
From Brigid, a friend: To-day (September 14, 2005) is an ancient feast day or memorial day in the Christian Calendar. The excerpt below is from Paradise by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Alfred A Knopf, NY, 1998, pp 145-147: …Misner walked away from the pulpit, to the rear wall of the church. There he stretched, reaching […]
Big Questions In History
Big Questions In History | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough While this is a purely secular book, it impinges on Christian faith in important ways. The Christian faith is, after all, a historical faith. Not only that, but it has distinctive views of history, and has itself both greatly influenced and been influenced by […]
Bible Commentaries
The combination of ‘current scholarship’ and a ‘devotional aspect’ is not always easy to find, but it’s great when you do discover one that meets your requirements (usually it is ‘one’, rather than a whole series, which are often uneven in quality). Nevertheless, I’ve been impressed by the following: The Interpretation series (A Bible Commentary […]
Adam
ADAM’S RETURN: The Five Promises of Male Initiation (Richard Rohr, 2004). Richard Rohr is, by some estimates (including mine), the English-speaking world’s #1 Christian prophet. He describes himself as a non-scholar, a ‘white middle-class American, who is secure, overeducated, ordained, unmarried and male.’ Writing/speaking about men and male spirituality, he is resisting many of the […]
Religious Books
Sightings 8/8/05 Printed Matters — Martin E. Marty Sightings’s publisher, editor, and this writer, along with much of the rest of America, recently left their desks for a couple of weeks, which is the equivalent of our wearing sleep masks and doing no sighting. And like so many others, we packed off with books we’d […]
Philosophy
from http://humanknowledge.net ©Brian Holtz 2004-11-04 ….. Philosophers often divide all phenomena into three kinds: a.. mind (or spirit or soul): that which can think and perceive; b.. ideas (or universals or forms): that which can be thought; and c.. matter (or substance): that which can be perceived. Human theories of mind differ according to how […]
Everything Belongs: the Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Summary of Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: the Gift of Contemplative Prayer (Crossroad 2003).Each decade it seems I read a book I wish I’d written. This is one: a brilliant collection of spiritual wisdom. Here I take the liberty of summarizing the essence of the book, with these few comments as preamble:1. Richard Rohr is probably […]
Da Vinci Code
One poster wrote: Of course he did. Sells more books, doesn’t it? You’d prefer he believed the Churches’ made up version of history? Another: The difference is that the Chruch has historical documents to support it’s “version” Dan Brown, does not. Another: What? The Bible? Dan Brown is writing Fiction, he doesn’t need any. Dan […]
Time
Science and Faith Ockham’s Razor, ABC Sunday 26 June 2005 Summary Bill Pearcy from Canberra used to be a fighter pilot in the RAAF and also studied Physics at The University of Melbourne. He’s now an Honorary Lay Canon of St Saviour’s Cathedral in Goulburn. In this talk he looks at the nature of time […]
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