Absolutely fascinating–and beautiful.
Absolutely fascinating–and beautiful.
By Patrick Symmes | NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 19, 2010
From the magazine issue dated Mar 1, 2010
“A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.”
Fascinating. Read article.
From What the Tea Partiers Want Is Already Here
By JOSEPH LAZZARO:
[What the] Tea Partiers think of globalization: Their first plank is free market/limited government. So it’s go, globalization, go!
Further, Te a P
artiers would no doubt be thrilled to see a simultaneous dismantling of the federal social safety net.
Click to read insightful dailyfinance.com article.
From an interview with McLaren by Melvin Bray:
“I [McLaren] think we moved from the pre-modern metaphor of the king’s court to the modern metaphor of the judge’s courtroom. And now, I think we’re growing as restless with the court and constitution metaphor as our ancestors did with the kingly metaphor.
If the earlier one seemed despotic,
the later one seems bureaucratic.
So we’ re on a quest for new metaphors.
My proposal is that we’re moving from courtroom to quest as a primary metaphor.
We’re not trying to once and for all arrange the evidence that demands a final verdict: we’re on an unending quest for truth, for better understanding, for insight that leads to love for God and neighbor.”
Good article. Click to read. Sounds like a good book too.
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 21 February 2010
Rowan Williams writes:
“Human beings begin their lives in a state of dependence.
They need to learn how to speak, to trust, to negotiate a world that isn’t always friendly, and involves unavoidable limitations.
They need an environment secure enough for them to take the necessary risks of learning – where they know there are some relationships that don’ t depend on ge
tting things right, but are unconditional.
The family is the indispensable foundation for all this.”
From an interesting review of a new book:
“The boundary between religious belief and the practice of psychiatry is becoming increasingly porous,” say the editors in the Preface to Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries. “No longer can psychiatrists in a multi-faith, multi-cultural globalized world hide behind the dismissal of religious belief as pathological, or behind a biomedical scientism, as they are more frequently confronted by distressed patients for whom religious belief may determine their choice of symptoms and their compliance with treatment.”
Click to read article.
Everyone I know is very health conscious.
We eat healthy.
We exercise. We try to stay centered and positive, though realistic.
These are the components of better health.
“The church in the past was extraordinarily authoritarian, in some cases one might even say abusively authoritarian, it was actually disrespectful of people’s autonomy in many ways,” Martin
said at a press briefing the week he was installed as co-adjutor of Dublin, a kind of “co-bishop” with right of succession when the incumbent retired.
Cardinal Connell hadn’t held such a meeting with the media in over a decade, and Irish Catholics were amazed at the appearance and Martin’s language. “I think we have to avoid any type of authoritarianism, and also any type of clericalism — which is some kind of closed idea of a priestly grouping that somehow or other seeks privilege rather than being there to serve the mission of the Church.”
Read article in Politics Daily by David Gibson.
The Roman Catholic church needs more people like Bishop Martin.
ALL churches do.
In fact, every organization needs them desperately.
Doctors and environmental scientists are growing more concerned that chemicals found in many household cleaning supplies, such as floor cleaners and glass cleaners, are behind the ongoing increase in breast cancer cases in the U.S.
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.