February 2012
26 posts
January Resolution Update
Rather than start the new year with a bunch of resolutions that could all crumble and fall by the wayside halfway through the first month because of having too many irons in the fire, I’ve elected to stagger them, and introduce new habits in stages. And so I’m pleased to report on the first batch:
1. Flossing the teeth daily. Aside from one night when I unexpectedly ran out of floss,...
January 2012
66 posts
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“With man, love means that you like being with them, are glad when you do what...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life.
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Review: The Tiger
The story goes that when I was less than two years old, I had a circus poster of a tiger jumping through a hoop in my bedroom. I have absolutely no memory of this, but apparently it made quite an impression on me. By all accounts, I used to stare at the tiger with a mixture of fear and awe. When my mother was in the hospital having just had my younger brother, the story is that one evening Dad...
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“Those who have given their lives for the Kingdom of God have never felt that...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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Review: Something Fierce
All of us get screwed up by our parents, and in return, we are all destined to screw up our own children. It’s a combination of the way we try to pass on our values, to raise our kids the way we were raised, or to raise them any way but the way we were raised. And that’s all fine and well if you were raised in a typical North American suburb, but what if your upbringing was a bit less...
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“The variety of ethical codes in different parts of the world presupposes...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life.
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“In nature we find God; we do not only infer from Nature what God must be like,...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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“Freedom is not absence of determination; it is spiritual determination, as...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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“One suggestion which has been made, and which I most heartily endorse, is that...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Resources and Influences of English Literature.
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“It is always in dealing with persons as persons that personality most truly...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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“Objectively regarded, Heaven and Hell may well be identical. Each is the...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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“Can there be a Paradise for any while there is Hell, conceived as unending...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Nature, Man, and God.
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“Reformers sometimes demand that industry should become co-operation for public...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Preacher’s Theme To-Day
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Fixed that for ya: Punctuated equilibrium →
Thoughts from Megan on the impact of a colon. See what I just did there?
fixedthatforya:
Today’s episode of Little Miss Know-It-All: The colon.
Colons are not capital periods. I know they look like they could be, so bear with me through this part. This can be particularly confusing, because when correctly used, colons often follow a complete sentence and can even come just before…
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“When we look at the industrial system that we have allowed to grow up it is...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Preacher’s Theme To-Day.
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This afternoon at a birthday party, one of the parents told me that the work I’ve been doing with Occupy Newfoundland, and my public involvement, are ‘the closest thing anyone in a mainline church has come to doing something cool.’
Faint praise, but I’ll take it, because I think I understand what he meant. And better for people to think that the Church is just starting to...
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“It is clear that, in the natural order of things, God’s order, the object...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Hope of a New World.
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“The only way to escape the authority of the State is to own no property at all;...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Citizen and Churchman.
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“It can hardly be said that the Church ought to denounce the State every time the...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Citizen and Churchman.
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“When you listen to beautiful music, where is the beauty? You do not create it:...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life.
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“For public worship the language should be the most beautiful we can find for the...”
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Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life.
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“The heart of moral improvement, the heart of moral progress, therefore also of...”
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Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Preacher’s Theme To-Day.
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“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind...”
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Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Hope of a New World.
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“When [Christ’s] visible Presence was withdrawn from men’s sight,...”
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Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life.
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My Mother-in-Law's Sense of Humour
The In-Laws are not the type of people to easily forget. They may still tease me for silly things I had done when I first met them about fifteen years ago. It’s all in good fun, mind, and I am known to give just as easily as I receive, but I still have to keep on my toes not to give them any more material than absolutely necessary.
Unfortunately, the other summer, I was reading about how...
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“Pain is in fact evil only in a secondary sense; it is something which, other...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Readings in St. John’s Gospel (Second Series).
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Note To Self:
Today we are commemorating St. Hilary of Poitiers
not St. Sidney of Poitier.
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“Our business mechanism and our financial mechanism are become so elaborate that...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Church Looks Forward.
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“If a psychologist assures me that I believe in God because of the way in which...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Preacher’s Theme To-Day.
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The Sea-Monkeys are Dead
You might not have known this, but Sea-Monkeys need to have the water in their tank aerated regularly. You can do this by buying the Sea-Monkey brand aerator, which is essentially a tiny turkey baster to blow bubbles in the water. Or, you can pour the water back and forth from the tank into a mason jar.
I knew that you had to do this. I FORGOT to keep doing this. Sadly, the Sea-Monkeys never...
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“To shed responsibility is always to incur spiritual danger.”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). A Challenge to the Church.
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“The proper outline of a Christian prayer is not “Please do for me what I...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). Christian Faith and Life
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“The religious life can make all the difference to morality, because to the...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Kingdom of God.
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“Convention is not to be despised; it is the deposit of the experience of the...”
– Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944). The Church Looks Forward.
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“You may say that to know the right course ought to lead to following it; and if...”
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Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944), The Kingdom of God.
