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Book Review – Fearless, Max Lucado
Book Review – Fearless, Max Lucado, 2009 To be honest, I wasn’t all that keen on this book when I first saw it. I imagined that it would be like just another self-help book when we need books about how we can give and show God’s love to the world. However, knowing of Max Lucado’s […]
I Love Huckabees
Note from Rowland (September 2009) I’ve just watched the video of I Love Huckabees, and the following helped me to make sense of it (if that’s possible :-): Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off-the-wall ‘I ? Huckabees’, a deep […]
Power of a Lyric – The Great American Novel
This is the second in my ‘Power of a lyric’ series of posts, where I take a line of a song that has influenced me in my life and expand on its meaning and relevance for today. This lyric is from the late Larry Norman’s The Great American Novel. ‘Do you really think the only […]
Biblical Psychology
*Sightings* 7/23/09 Ten Commandments for a Biblical Psychology — Kalman J. Kaplan Fifty years ago, Dr. Erich Wellisch wrote, “The very word ‘psyche’ is Greek. The central psychoanalytic concept of the formation of character and neurosis is shaped after the Greek Oedipus myth…There is need for a Biblical psychology.†Recently, housed within the University of […]
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Way of Being
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Way of Being, Brian Draper, Lion, 2009. We know about rational intelligence (remember those IQ tests at school?). And emotional intelligence (you’ve read Daniel Goleman’s best-seller Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ). So if our cognitive and affective behaviors can be measured in terms of performance, someone had […]
Little Miss Sunshine
The difference between comedy and tragedy is not all that great. We tend to laugh at the misfortunes of others – provided they are minor – as a way of relieving social tension. There was the example of a woman laughing as a case fell off the top of the tourist bus, bursting open with […]
Michael Mayne: This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey (1995, 2008)
First a confession. I’d never heard of Michael Mayne until I read this wonderful book. When I Googled his name I discovered a couple of obituaries and learned enough about this erudite scholar-priest to rebuke my ignorance. [1] The Very Rev. Michael Mayne was an English Anglican priest (he died in 2006) who served with […]
Seeking the sacred in Australian Art and Literature
14 July 2009 ________________________________________ Authors of a new book launched at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas this weekend readily acknowledge that the ideas of Sacredness and Australia do not sit comfortably beside each other. Indeed, in many areas of Australian commentary, these two concepts would remain oxymoronic. In Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian […]
National Curmudgeon Day
Harry T. Cook 7/02/09 If you are reading this essay, it’s because my editor stopped rolling her eyes and shaking her head from side to side long enough to format and schedule it for posting. That editor does not want her best non-paying customer to become like the prototypical old man sitting sullenly on his […]
By Their Leaves Ye Shall Know Them
Harry T. Cook 5/15/09 The need to vacate a church office I had occupied for nearly 22 years was cause for much book sorting and moving. My working library — books and other publications pertinent to my area of research — had been about evenly divided between church and home. Largely at the latter over […]
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