Making Up Our Minds
A while back, I had a conversation with a young couple considering marriage who had differing perspectives on the role religion would play in the raising of future children. One […]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Rules of Life
Usain Bolt was recently disqualified from the Men’s 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea. His crime? One false start. Previously, athletes had been allowed a single […]
Gore-Tex Curriculum Resists the Good Book
When the first fleet landed in Australia in 1788, chaplain Richard Johnson characteristically turned to his King James Bible for wisdom. At this first Christian Service, drawing on Psalm 116, […]
Joyful Contentment
Levir Rodrigues dos Santos is one of the men I came to admire the most. He was my wife’s dad, my father-in-law. I met him when I was only ten […]
A Clash of Worlds… and of Worldviews
Have you ever watched the James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar? If you have not seen it, well, get a life! The movie is a very fine piece of art. Besides personal […]
Connection for Real People
James Joyce’s only play The Exiles is little performed because, well, it isn’t really very good. If it hadn’t been written by Joyce (who begged Ezra Pound to help him […]
Nascar Prayer
On July 23 this year in Nashville, Tennessee, pastor Joe Nelms gave a prayer for a Nascar race. Since then, that prayer has been watched on Youtube over 2 million […]
Wondering Fair 