"Hefner's Playmates—and, in the culture he has done so much to shape, all women—are primarily visual objects, metaphysically truncated to their improbable physical attributes.
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John O'Donohue was an Irish poet and philosopher. His book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend" (paperback, 1998) has been very well received and I too have found it very helpful.
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We are 'wee bits of pipe' (my words) through which flows the Living Water, the Holy Spirit, from the lives of Jesus' followers to touch the lives of those around us.
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The full poem written by Amy Carmichael may be found here.
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God's Kingdom is - well, different from what we often imagine or even want. In God's Kingdom, less may be more.
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A clean, clear and sound inner life
so important to us all
and vital to a life of faith.
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The origin of the word for ‘blessing’ in the ancient Semitic (including Hebrew), was in the root b-r-k.
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In an article in the Toronto Star, Irish author Colm Toibin was interviewed about his new novel, “Nora Roberts.” I was struck by a comment by the author about one of the book's final scenes in whic
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'For God so loved the cosmos . . .' surely means that the whole creation, damaged as it is, will be restored and brought to new creation fulness.
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Raising the Spiritual Temperature
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Those of Jesus' followers who have gone “beyond evangelical” have moved on from the early 20th-century fundamentalism vs. modernism debate that our forefathers passionately fought . . .
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Back to school shopping - sure? Back to church shopping - not so much.
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Emily Dickinson wrote that 'Nature is a haunted house - but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.'
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Limitations of the Linear
I am quite a lateral thinker, though I can at times think, plan and act in a straight line, if that's called for.
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The Modern Age led people to organize and analyze, and in this case to chlorophorm beauty and to pin it on white-board (complete with frame) and give it a Latin name (on the reverse side).
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My son shared with me a book that I found difficult to put down. It’s called Shantaram and I’ve found in it all kinds of ‘wisdom.’ The author is Gregory David Roberts (published by St.
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Loving ourselves at the expense of loving others is contrary to the heart of the Gospel.
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Who would have thought that such quick and steep descent into raw evil could have happened, as it has happned in Kenya just a few years ago during a national election.
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You know the movie: You can't handle the truth! says Jack Nicholson's character. But Jesus said: And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
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The oldest ancestor that I can link to directly was James Barber, born in 1434 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England. My son’s name is ‘James (Arthur Gordon) Barber.
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The oldest relative - ancestor, that I can link to is 'James Barber, ' born in 1434 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England. My son's name is 'James (Arthur Gordon) Barber. My middle name is James.
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I put out the following - not sure that I believe or endorse it, but because I want to consider it awhile; these thoughts and their implications for understanding, truthfulness, clarity, pati
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Leonard Cohen exhorts us to, 'Ring the bells that still can ring.'
I resonate with perfectionists.
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Whether we have a garden or an orchestra, we can appreciate the rich sights and smells or the wonderful sounds of music that emanate through such diversity - in the context of unity - from th
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The Good News or The Gospel or Godspel is what changes folk, what can change the world. It guides, shelters, helps and keeps us.
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Someone has said, Fail often; it's really the only way you learn. That would be true for most of us, remember, when we were learning to walk.
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Our lives are coloured by various events that come, at least to me, like images, both stark and beautiful.
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As we journey, we will encounter all kinds of evill, hate and opposition. Some of it happens to us; some of it, sadly, we may help to create.
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On one occasion Jesus said, 'Don’t cast your pearls before swine less they trample them underfoot and then turn and rend you.'
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