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This is how some of my thoughts come together for my blog page.
I started thinking about telling personal stories and just jotted down some initial thoughts. I then discussed the subject with my work colleagues. Then I placed the paper with my thought on a white board while I sit and mull things over.
Where to [...]
Here is a thought that I am told comes from a sign on the door of the Philosophy Department at Oxford University
“Caution when opening the door there may be people on the other side.”
To my friend Jillybean who is having a bad day. I offer the following:
words and music by Eric Idle
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for [...]
After a hardy rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, A young mother watched her two little boys playing in the puddle through her Kitchen window. The older of the two, a five year old lad, grabbed his sibling by the back of his Head and shoved his face into the water [...]
Book Review: MIROSLAV VOLF, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity.
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/ Cambridge, UK, 1998.
ISBN 0-8028-4440-5 (pbk). Pp. xii + 314.
The name of Miroslav Volf is becoming increasingly well known in the theological world. He comes from Eastern Europe (Croatia), has lived and studied in [...]
Prayer of Preparation:
“Healing God
we come before you
broken,yet seeking wholeness,
isolated,yet seeking community,
overwhelmed,yet seeking simplicity,
shamed,yet seeking grace”.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only American president to resign from that office.
Elvis Aaron Presley[1][3] (January 8, 1935–August 16, 1977), middle name sometimes writtenAron)a was an American singer, musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly referred to by his first name, and as the “The King of Rock ‘n’ [...]
Is this a communist plot?
thoughts from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk
“Spheres are the spaces where people actually live. I would like to show that human beings have, till today, been misunderstood, [...]
Hey did you know that the LeFonquester learnt to play the saxophone?
To be honest I wasn’t real good.
However I had a great teacher and the issue with my inability to play was no reflection on him.
The band that I wanted to start was with a trumpeter Steve Smith. We wanted to call the band the [...]
Hitchcock: monster or moralist?
Biographers are divided on how to judge the personality of Alfred Hitchcock
Montgomery Clift stars as Father Michael Logan in I, Confess (1953)
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Bess Twiston Davies
Was Alfred Hitchcock a sexual monster? Or was he, as the French film makers Rohmer and Chabrol once claimed, a moralist whose films are steeped in [...]
Guess there will be hardly a pulpit across the land that will not be thinking,reflecting, praying,confessing, and/or, condemning, the sin and greed of the financial market over the next few weeks! Is it coincidence,fate,luck,or the Lord, which sees Sunday’s readings (Oct 5) on “the wicked husbandmen”,no,not wayward husbands,but land hungry entrepreneurs,the greedy,the poor, ecclesiastic politicians, and the [...]
Anyone who has dropped by this small corner of the internet will know that I have a great interest in the whimsical and the sublime.
I recently discovered this ukele player Jake Shimabukuro, he is the pants. I love it when people make unusual instruments do great things.
So for your appreciation or otherwise.
Let [...]
At this moment in time I have not posted any updates due to the fact that I am attending this years annual synod.
My view of life at synod is that we are “of the world but not in it.” It is a sum (forgive the pun) what surreal atmosphere. The heady discussion, claim and counter [...]
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