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Canadians
Canada is an interesting country. We lived there for two years. A plus: Canada would have the friendliest and fairest police/justice system of any country I’ve visited… A minus: An Australian friend working in Canada said to me recently: ‘Canadians don’t know who they are… but they won’t let you be anything else!’ (See http://jmm.org.au/articles/17347.htm […]
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Russia under communism
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Russia under communism, dies at 89 By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 4, 2008 MOSCOW — Nobel laureate Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of Communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. The soulful writer and spiritual father of Russia’s nationalist patriotic […]
John Lennon and Christ
John Lennon: “I’m one of Christ’s biggest fans” From Telegraph.co.uk, on a 1969 interview with John Lennon: John Lennon famously claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, even predicting that Christianity would “vanish and shrink”. But 28 years after his death, in an interview being broadcast for the first time, he claims that on […]
Tony Blair’s Leap of Faith
Wednesday, May. 28, 2008 By MICHAEL ELLIOTT/BETHLEHEM In 1910, when Bethlehem was a town in a sleepy province of the Ottoman Empire, a local man built a magnificent house on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Made from the region’s limestone—whose shades, from pale honey to dazzling white, give the Holy Land its distinctive […]
Barack Obama’s Facebook Profile (June 1 2008)
Country: United States Currently Running For Office: President Party: Democratic Party Current Office Office: Senate State: Illinois Party: Democratic Party Information Detailed Info Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23… http://www.myspace.com/barackobama http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-O… Gender: Male Relationship Status: Married to Michelle Obama Birthday: August 4, 1961 Religious Views: United Church of Christ Interests: Basketball, writing, loafing w/ kids Favorite Music: Miles Davis, […]
Parents: Too much praise is NOT a good thing
Too much praise is NOT a good thing. Cheryl Critchley Saturday, May 03, 2008 Telling kids mediocre efforts are fabulous has an adverse effect, writes Cheryl Critchley HAVE you ever looked at your child’s truly crappy art work and told them it was FANTASTIC? Or watched them lose a basketball game by 145 points and […]
Religion (Einstein)
Einstein: Bible Is ‘Primitive, Pretty Childish’ LONDON , Associated Press 8 hours ago Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist’s religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein […]
Holocaust Heroine
Incredibly brave ‘mother’ of Warsaw’s Holocaust children May 14, 2008 IRENA SENDLER, SOCIAL WORKER 15-2-1910 — 12-5-2008 IRENA Sendler, who is credited with having saved the lives of about 2500 Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and was tortured by the Gestapo, has died. She was 98. By 1942, the Germans […]
J. I. Packer: an interview
Faith Today Interviews J.I. Packer J.I. Packer has been described as one of the most important evangelical theologians of the late 20th century. In 2005 Time magazine dubbed him the “doctrinal Solomon†of Christian thinkers and named him one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in North America. Dr. Packer is the Board of Governors […]
Mircea Eliade
*Sightings* 5/8/08 The Persistence of Eliade’s Memory — Jeremy Biles Released this week on DVD, Francis Ford Coppola’s film *Youth Without Youth, *based on the novella of the same name by celebrated historian of religions Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), opens with a montage of clocks woozily stretching and bending. These fluctuating clocks, reminiscent of the iconic […]
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