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The Best Books I’ve Ever Read
My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/ evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten-plus years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that influenced me at the time. Remember, I’m not back there, stuck where-I-was. I was brought up in a ‘gentle fundamentalist’ church (Open or Plymouth Brethren) and I’m still […]
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [1]
ISLAM: Is there a ‘Christian’ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically? Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us – How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom […]
Book Review: The Vertical Self (Mark Sayers)
Book Review – The Vertical Self, Mark Sayers, 2009 Mark Sayers’ second book, The Vertical Self, further develops the theme of his earlier work, The Trouble with Paris, by emphasising that only a deep and passionate relationship with Jesus can save us from falling prey to the whims and whispers of our culture of consumerism. […]
J D Salinger
J.D. Salinger found the spiritual in his writings THE great J.D. Salinger once flirted with the idea of moving to Tasmania. The famously reclusive author was attracted by its wild beauty and its “ultra-remoteness”. But he soon reverted to type. Except for occasional trips abroad (he was especially fond of England and Scotland), he stayed […]
People Who’ve Changed Their Minds
History Shows That Famous Thinkers Also Get It Wrong. And they admit it Cover Story, Sunday Magazine When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators, at the annual request of the edge.org website, answered the following question: “What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?” […]
What does it take to get people to decide they were wrong?
The curious thing is how few people have changed their minds on Iraq By John Rentoul Sunday, 30 May 2004 What does it take to get people to decide they were wrong? What is remarkable about the invasion and the occupation of Iraq is how few people have changed their mind about the original decision […]
Subversive Spirituality: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, And Other Christians In Disguise
SUBVERSIVE SPIRITUALITY: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and other Christians in Disguise (Robert Inchausti), 2005. What are the ‘wisest of the wise’ actually saying about the false wisdoms of the modern world? Here Robert Inchausti, English Professor and expert on Thomas Merton, selects and compresses the wisdom of Blake, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Chesterton, Berdyaev, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Kerouac, Walker […]
An Essay on one of my favourite sociologists, Robert K Merton
On the Shoulders of Giants Essay by Michael Dirda Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) is chiefly remembered as a prominent American sociologist, author of the magisterial Social Theory and Social Structure and a longtime eminence at Columbia University. In the course of a distinguished career, Merton invented the phrase “self-fulfilling prophecy,” popularized the term “role model,” […]
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Mark’s comment at the end of this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday, February 26, 2010 mark driscoll hates avatar (REALLY HATES IT!) I found this video of Pastor Mark Driscoll at his YouTube.com account. Apparently, Mark HATED Avatar. And he wanted everybody to know how much he hated it, so he posted this little video of him […]
Famous Six-Word Sentences [2]
Note from Rowland: I posted this on Facebook, *** FAMOUS SIX-WORD SENTENCES: “Brevity is the soul of wit”. “The exits were entrances in disguise.” “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” (Hemingway?). Zen observation: “Tried surfing on a calm day.” “Miserable childhood leads to royalties.” (Frank McCourt). Know any more? *** and got these responses: Rowland […]
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