Tim Keller: Can Life Have Meaning Without God

The reading from CS Lewis at the front is worth it alone.
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CS Lewis Doodle: Living in an Atomic Age

http://youtu.be/oxFmkg5dcyk

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Changes in how faith is passed down in families

Alternet

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14 Habits of Highly Miserable People

From Alternet

The “benefits” of misery

  • Being miserable gets you attention
  • Being miserable may make others feel guilty and that puts them in your debt.
  • People who love you will walk on eggshells to make sure you don’t feel worse or make them feel more guilty
  • Being miserable about big issues make make you feel and look sophisticated and philosophical.
  1. Be constantly afraid of economic loss
  2. Practice sustained boredom
  3. Give yourself a negative identity
  4. Pick fights, act injured, play the victim
  5. Attribute Bad Intentions.
  6. Whatever you do, do it only for personal gain
  7. Avoid Gratitude
  8. Always be alert and in a state of anxiety
  9. Blame your parents
  10. Don’t enjoy life’s pleasures
  11. Ruminate
  12. Glorify or vilify the past
  13. Find a romantic partner to reform
  14. Be critical

 

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An Orthodox Yugoslav Priest Prays from the Nazi Death Camp

“Bless My Enemies, O Lord”

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Andy Crouch Interview on his book Playing God

Playing God: An Interview with Andy Crouch [Part 1 of 2]

Playing God: An Interview with Andy Crouch [Part 2 of 2]

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How Globalization has Changed Us

Seeing the Magic Eye in a Globalized World

An interview on NPR between two young women, one religious, the other secular. Can the secular understand how the religious sees the world? Can there be more than condescension and disdain?

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Ann Voskamp on the truth about boring men

Her blog

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An Atheist Pans the New Atheist Mega Church

The Guardian

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Veritas Forum: Bible: Gospel, Guide or Garbage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8H8pPFdlus&feature=share&t=29m13s

with NT Wright.

Unfortunately the video is now marked “private”. There was 20 minutes of sound check, etc. on the one I posted so perhaps after they clean it up a bit they will repost it. It’s well worth watching.

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