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Apologize for lack of posts lately
As you can probably imagine have been super busy lately. August and September are the busiest months of the year for my work with Church of the Nations. This is when the largest number of international students and scholars and … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Personal
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Why not more Orthodoxy in China? (or) Reflections on journey through China, part VII
The third goal for my journey through China was to understand better the state of the Christian church in China. Part of that goal was to find Orthodox Christians. Kallistos Ware in his book The Orthodox Way provides a list … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Orthodoxy, Personal, Travel
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When you can no longer understand what you wrote (or) the Algernon Effect
From Wikipedia “the fount of all wisdom and knowledge”*: Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Hebrew Bible, Personal
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China’s ticking time bomb (or) Reflections on journey through China, part VI
This will be short. It was moderately big news last week when China overtook Japan to become the number two largest economy in the world. The United States is still number one although it is predicted that within ten years … Continue reading
Cities as place of life and culture or fear and death (or) Reflections on journey through China, part V
Cities. Several times this website has addressed the significant divide between city and country. I am convinced it is right now the single most important dividing line in both American society and Chinese society. Although perhaps for different reasons. In … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity and race, Personal, Society and Culture, Travel
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How theology matters
(How theology matters) Richard M. Wright Evensong at University Baptist Church Sunday August 01 2010 Colossians 1 “Spaceships? Our space fleet is the ships the Settlers came in from Urras nearly two centuries ago. To build just a ship to … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian Practice, New Testament, Personal, Sermons, Theology
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Lord deliver us from politics (or) Trusting God when things fall apart
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; … Continue reading
I write like Stephen King (and a few others)
Thanks to my good friend Chris Brady who is dean of Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University. His recent post “I write like lots of folks (and reflections on biblical scholarship)” in which he runs a few samples of … Continue reading
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Racist humor on “Last Comic Standing”?
Okay – so some of us think that charge of raaaaacism has been abused in order to silence or intimidate political opponents. That does not mean it doesn’t exist. Last night “Last Comic Standing”. I understand the humor is not … Continue reading
Posted in Ethnicity and race, Media, Personal, Television
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What I did not like about China (or) Reflections on journey through China, part II
I have much more to write about what I like and/or admire about China. But in the meantime and out of fairness let me list a few things that I did not like. When one visits another nation with a … Continue reading