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The Good Book at the Olympic Games

August 14, 2008

Because cultural and academic leaders in China are seeking to understand the influence of the Bible on the worldview and culture of the West, there is a growing interest in Chinese-English bilingual Bibles in mainland China…”What a wonderful thing it would be if thousands of people would learn English?and Chinese!?by reading the Bible in side-by-side bilingual editions.?

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Tagged With: Bible, Translation, Sports, Social Justice, Religion, Olympic Games, Language, Culture, China, Byron Borger, Body
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

August 7, 2008

Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group — not affluenza, but apprenticeship. So I asked our boys, “At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?”

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Tagged With: Boy Scouts, Camp, Roger Bennet, Religion, Paradise Park, Mentors, Jules Shell, Community of Practice, Camp Fire
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On Manifestoes

May 24, 2008

So here are some manifestos of the present day on books, education, faith, and civic life. Though their weight for good or ill, for much or little, is as yet unknown, these are some of the words that will shepherd us into our shared future.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Education|| Reading the Word|| Community & Time|| The Reading Life|| Mind & Society|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Religion, Writing, Sara Lloyd, Richard Harwood, Ralph Ellison, Race, Politics, Michael Pollan, Manifesto, John Taylor Gatto, Homeschooling, History, Faith, Education, Democracy, Danielle Allen, Clay Shirkey, Classics, Civil Rights, Book Publishing, Barack Obama, Aristotle
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Want a Bestseller? Write About God…or Something…

April 30, 2008

Taken with my smudgy phone camera on my way through our local big-chain bookstore. What a menagerie! Pictured: A New Earth Eckhart Tolle’s popular Easternish mystic self-help catechism. The Shack Written by William P. Young and recommended by everyone I know, and their cousin. 😉 No less than Eugene Peterson, for crying out loud, compares […]

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Tagged With: David Oliver Relin, Bookstores, Bibliography, Bestsellers, Elizabeth Gilbert, Writing, William P. Young, Richard Dawkins, Rhonda Byrne, Religion, Julie Andrews, Jodi Picoult, Greg Mortenson, Eugene Peterson
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Arranging a Memorial Service for Dr. King

April 3, 2008

April 7th, 1968: “You can’t have it here,” the man snapped at my father as we walked toward his study at the church on Sunday morning. “This is our church, and you cannot have it here. This ain’t your church, Vernon, this is our church. And I am telling you right now, you ain’t having no Martin Luther King service in our church…You can’t have a church full of niggers in here. This is our church.”

“The last time I checked, it was God’s church,” my father replied…

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Tagged With: Memoir, Timothy Tyson, Religion, Race, Oxford, North Carolina, Martin Luther King, History, Blood Done Sign My Name
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Reading the Foundations of Religious Freedom

December 28, 2007

Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes […]

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Shelved with: Word in the World|| History|| Reading the Word|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Religion, History, Bible
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