Questions to Take Back to School

August 30th, 2008

images1.jpgTo make the most of our educations, whether formal or “continuing”, as they say, we should come with questions needing answers, not just wait for others to pose questions to us. In The Reason for God, Tim Keller gives us a good list with which to begin:

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Humility: The Key to the Kingdom

August 23rd, 2008

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Czech Humor

August 7th, 2008

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 Vaclav Klaus’ provocative new book Blue Planet in Green Shackles. What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.

August 5th, 2008

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Batman, Hancock, and Bishop Sheen

August 3rd, 2008

images.jpgMany years ago Bishop Fulton J. Sheen delivered a television Christmas message entitled “Superman and Christmas” on his Life is Worth Living television program. With the enormous popularity of the movies Hancock and Batman, some of his ideas are worth re-examining.

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