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Solzhenitsyn: Postmodern Moralist
by Robert Inchausti Dr. Inchausti is assistant professor of English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. This article appeared in the Christian Century November 14, 1984, p. 1066. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared […]
Robert Inchausti: Subversive Orthodoxy
Note from Rowland (Feb. 25. 2010): Robert Inchausti, also author of a couple of books about Thomas Merton, also Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation, and The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People… He is professor of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. I only recently discovered this author, and he’s brilliant. I don’t […]
No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) Starring: Ben Stein, Richard Dawkins Director: Nathan Frankowski Product Description Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom … What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth […]
One Person’s Theological Journey
(The story of an online friend’s journey out of one kind of faith to another)… “After theology, it was intellectual theological ‘wet’s’ who influenced me to a bent away from my early faith, from miracle, from resurrection and so from faith and the church… and towards the hubris and edge of rationalism that I now […]
Power of a lyric – Love Rescue Me
‘Love rescue me, come forth and speak to me. Raise me up and don’t let me fall. No man is my enemy, my own hands imprison me. Love rescue me…I’m here without a name, in the palace of my shame…Love rescue me’ – U2, Love Rescue Me Most, if not all, of what we say […]
Psychologist banned after exorcisms
a.. By Kate Sikora c.. February 13, 2010 A PSYCHOLOGIST who helped perform exorcisms on his patients and believed in “satanic abuse” has been banned from practising by the state’s health watchdog. Father-of-six Mark Edward Tynan, of the western Sydney-based Christian group Servants of Jesus, was found to have blurred his spiritual beliefs and professional […]
Movie Review – Up in the Air
Billed as one of George Clooney’s finest cinematic performances, this movie portrays the life of the ultimate corporate jetsetter. Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, whose job it is to travel around the country firing people. His company is hired by other corporations to do their dirty work of informing staff that they no longer have a […]
The Mark of a true hero
DMETRI KAKMI January 25, 2010 IF, AS Thomas Carlyle said, ”the history of the world is but the biography of great men”, then the history of the last century or so must be a record of sports people. I came to this conclusion when a man on a train vociferously declared that Ben Cousins was […]
The Third Choice (Islam)
Promo for an interesting book, which I’m about to read… Rowland. In The Third Choice Mark Durie examines the most crucial challenges of this new century. In clear language, free from political correctness, and backed by an impressive scholarly knowledge, he unfolds step-by-step the basic foundations of Islam and exposes their inner correlations with jihad […]
The 100 Best Books of the Decade
From The Times November 14, 2009 100 The Position by Meg Wolitzer (2005) An hilarious, serious novel about sex and love and family. Paul and Roz Mellow publish Pleasuring (think of The Joy of Sex) in 1975 — it’s a bestseller, but what do you think their four children make of this? 99 The Lost […]
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