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People-skills: they’re different at work and elsewhere: be careful!
A Surprising Way to Ruin Your Personal Life The right tools for one job can blow up another. Published on April 13, 2014 by The Contemporary Psychoanalysis Group in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action By David Braucher, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. Many of us literally bring our work home with us, as our smartphones and other devices plug us in 24 […]
ACCEPTING DIVERSITY
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse… the Law has nothing to do with faith (Paul). If [faith] is alone and includes no actions, it is dead (James). We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. In the same way, though we are many, […]
LIVING WITH AMBIGUITY (Q&R)
LIVING WITH AMBIGUITY My thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways, declares Yahweh. For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts. We know only imperfectly… When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and […]
FUNDAMENTALISM
Mormon Teachers’ College student: ‘We Mormons believe that God is physical, like a giant male.’ Me: ‘Is that general Mormon teaching?’ ‘I think so. But I also believe we can measure the size of God.’ ‘Really? How?’ ‘Well, one of the Hebrew prophets says God walks on the mountains. Figure out where those mountains […]
GOOD & EVIL
Every culture contains good and bad elements. Every language has different concepts about what is right and wrong.  Consider:   Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. ~~ Elizabeth Elliot The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes […]
QUESTIONS & RESPONSES: RAW MATERIAL FOR A NEW BOOK/BLOG
NOTE: THIS BLOG IS A POT-POURRI OF ARTICLES, NOTES, IDEAS – MANY STILL TO BE FULLY FORMED. I’M DRIBBLING SOME ARTICLES INTO THIS FOLDER ON jmm.org.au WEBSITE FROM TIME TO TIME… DEADLINE FOR FINISHED MSS.: was to have been OCTOBER 2014, but Mosaic Press (with whom I had a contract) has gone into liquidation, so […]
Justice system failing indigenous women
Date August 18, 2014 Perhaps the most lamentable blot on Australia, which boasts an overall standard of living coveted by so many less-fortunate nations, is the gap between the situation of indigenous people and that of the rest of the population. Across a range of fundamental measures, indigenous Australians experience shocking outcomes, to the point […]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: Key resources…
MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources… ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, including this one AA: A fairly thorough overview: Homosexuality & the Bible (6 articles) AAA: Too busy? Here’s just one (Steven Chalke’s) Prof. Gary Bouma (One group wants dignity; the church, power) Conservative approaches: ethicist Margaret […]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: six articles (and more)
[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]
THREE WAYS TO READ THE BIBLE
The three books reviewed here are excellent examples of how one branch of the Christian church reads its sacred book – the Bible – and may be ignorant of  other ways of approaching the Scriptures. The Evangelical/Holiness method is practised during one’s daily ‘Quiet Time’ (in what Catholics have traditionally termed the ‘oratory’) where one […]
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