Tag: faith
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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November 06, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
Mistakes were Made, but not by me
Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
I first heard about this book on the CBC a few months ago; and I immediately established a hold on the book at my local library . . .
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November 09, 2008 10:32 PM EST --
Okay, this is more a question than anything else. I went to church this evening, and the sermon was on "the image of God": which, of course, is us. Now I've never heard a sermon on this topic . . .
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December 19, 2008 09:21 PM EST --
I do not consider myself a particularly lucky person; at least not specifically. I have thought a lot about luck; one of my favourite characters in all the books I've read is Teela Brown , in Larry . . .
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August 16, 2009 12:08 PM EDT --
I recently published a post about Satan ; it was a post about an experience that I took as quite profound, specifically because sometimes I forget that evil is all around us, hiding out of sight. Genesis . . .
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September 15, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
It's been a busy week and I've not been on top of the election like I had intended. But there was something that happened in Toronto that struck my interest. It's been in all the news; a child . . .
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December 29, 2008 11:59 PM EST --
It's changed over the years and into the decades. When I was young, "religion" had something of a negative association; I was born in the 60s and as I grew up we thought that religion was . . .
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November 09, 2008 02:08 PM EST --
When I was younger, I was used to boycotts called by "Christian" leaders against companies they deemed to be ungodly: Proctor and Gamble was one of the most famous, if not the first (I remember . . .
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August 26, 2008 06:21 PM EDT --
I read an article this morning by Russell M about "Death and Time" (which itself is a reflection from another post). The article itself stirred memories and emotions connected to the deaths . . .
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November 23, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
I've forgotten what I was looking for... but I stumbled across a video on YouTube called: " The Truth About Steroids : a good piece of unbiased info." To begin with, the title struck me . . .
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December 06, 2008 10:39 PM EST --
I read a post recently (well, it was not written recently: the date was August 10, and I'm not even sure I was a member yet). The post was a question about what constituted a lie. I read through the . . .
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December 19, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
I recently read a comment on one of my posts that deserves a longer discussion. It illustrates what I believe is a misunderstanding of the concept of relativity. The comment was:
"The ability . . .
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January 03, 2009 08:34 PM EST --
I have a question, that has been stimulated by some of the comments I got on my latest posts. The general question is: does God have a gender? And does it matter? To Him or to you? My thoughts are . . .
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December 30, 2008 11:37 PM EST --
As many will have noticed by now, I spent part of my life invested in studying the Bible. I know, many of you think it might not have been the best career choice. (My dad certainly did not agree with . . .
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January 18, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
A lot of my posts are stimulated... born... inspired... by other things I read on gather. This was one of them. After several weeks away, trying to get ready to teach a class and doing research . . .
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March 13, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
The Fifth Estate is one of our news programs that explores and presents news from aparticularly Canadian perspective to the world. It is on CBC, but like anything these days it is available . . .
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August 16, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
I do not believe a precise Statement of Faith is necessary for me, if only because the essentials were written many centuries ago. The Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed are two of my favourites, to . . .
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August 21, 2009 09:17 PM EDT --
One way to get the tiniest inkling of what God is like is by understanding that we are the image of God (Genesis 1:26). There is no real consensus on exactly what it is that makes us in this image, . . .
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August 21, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
I am currently reading a book that was published in 2007; it is called “The Shack” , by Wm. Paul Young. For those who haven't heard of it, it is the (fictional) story of a man who gets a . . .
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August 29, 2009 02:44 PM EDT --
A friend of mine on Facebook posted the link below. She actually managed to do a great job of keeping her comments to a minimum. I will admit that I am not quite so... restrained... when it comes to . . .
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