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Etymology: how good are you with word-origins?
An interesting/educational site – http://www.etymologic.com/index.cgi
The Myth of Mutual-Exclusivity
The Myth of Mutual-Exclusivity. For one reason or another I have been doing a bit of reading lately. It has been mostly good fun, but has left me a little confused. It has however made me think, which is always a good thing. (Though there are many who would disagree !!) At this point I […]
Parker Palmer: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
(Material found on Amazon.com. This book has been recommended by several perceptive friends. I tend to take notice of such titles when that happens. Rowland). Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review The old Quaker adage, “Let your life speak,” spoke to author Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s. It summoned him to a […]
A Recipe for Dreaming
Bryce Courtenay and illustrations by Anie Williams, A Recipe for Dreaming (Camberwell: Penguin, 2007) Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw “Imagination is more important than knowledge” Einstein announced. Imagination also often comes to us in different ways than knowledge. We might be able to acquire lots of knowledge through reading hundreds of pages, listening to lots of […]
Jean Vanier, Our Life Together
[Note from Rowland: We have a little four-year old grand-daughter who is ‘developmentally delayed’. I told her physiotherapist yesterday I get more smiles from little Bella than from all our four children and six grandchildren combined!]. Jean Vanier, Our Life Together: A Memoir in Letters (564 pages, 2007) Here’s an inspiring ‘must read’ for admirers […]
The Shack – review by Gordon MacDonald
“The Shack” Why certain stories disturb many and comfort so many more. Gordon MacDonald | posted 3/23/2009 Soon after William Paul Young’s The Shack hit the bookstores, a friend handed me a copy and said, “You need to read this; it’s going to be the next best-seller.” I put the book on my “to read” […]
Album Review – No Line on the Horizon – U2
The latest U2 [http://u2.com] album – No Line on the Horizon [http://astore.amazon.com/soulthou-20/detail/B001O5W6C0]- could well go down as one of their best. As they did with their classic Achtung Baby in 1991, this album is a result of a slight re-invention of this fabulous band’s music. I say ‘slight’ because the change from the previous album […]
Pain and Justice
“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” Aeschylus “I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry […]
Movies of 2008
Hi there, Pulpit-pounding priests. Glowering nuns. Martyrdom. Salvation. Love. Fate. Spiritual guides can be found all over the cinematic landscape this Oscar season. From Benjamin Button to Batman, and from a Nazi prison guard to an adorable robot with a fondness for musicals-lessons abound that encourage us all to think about what really matters in […]
Two Resources for Lent
1. Is This the End? Drama and Puppet Plays for the Easter Season by Paul Clark (The Hive, 2008). Making children’s time in church services interesting/funny can be a challenge. (Back in seminary, theologs irreverently called it the ‘Brats’ Chat’). Here we have some very creative ideas to get the Easter message across to young […]
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