In the Greener Grass Conspiracy Stephen Altrogge addresses the issue of contentment. Why we don’t have it, and why what we often think will bring it only offers scant relief before we find ourselves discontented and desiring something else as a means of achieving satisfaction for our desires. In this brief and engaging book, Altrogge …
To paraphrase Rob Bell: Bin Laden’s in hell? And you know this for a fact? If I understand the thesis that Bell floats in his book Love Wins, all the wrong doing of Osama Bin Laden was atoned for by the death of Jesus Christ, so God holds nothing against him; the life of privilege …
From: ‘Frost’s Laws and By-Laws of American Society. A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.’ by Sarah Annie Frost, 1869. ETIQUETTE IN CHURCH. IN visiting a church in which you have no pew of your own, wait in …
Paul Levy writes a piece called ‘After The Service Rituals’ at Reformation21 that resonates. Having loaded my head full of information and unloaded it in a hopefully cogent and helpful form I’m pretty much cactus after worship. Generally I float around looking available so anyone who wants to talk to me can, but at the …
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