Strippers for the Dead

Posted on October 12, 2012 by PaulVK

Again on Huffpo. Interesting story on culture and on how Christianity separated sex from religion, something far less common in traditional religions.

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Sad story of a bullied girl who finally ended her life

Posted on October 12, 2012 by PaulVK

Huff Po

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God and Gardening

Posted on October 12, 2012 by PaulVK

By Cathy Smith. “Love is made visible in work.”

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“Is meaning a first world problem” from the Harvard Business Review

Posted on October 12, 2012 by PaulVK

Link, also a link to Maslow’s pyramid on wikipedia

Comment:

Interesting piece. I’m struck again by how generic in the face of religious pluralism the author wishes to keep his language. Define meaning, grace, purpose, or human without a story. It’s like only eating the cream on the Starbucks coffee because you’ve got moral concerns about where the coffee bean comes from.

Secularism really has no answer for the age of decay. pvk

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Leadership and Salesmanship are Intertwined

Posted on October 11, 2012 by PaulVK

That’s a pretty potent observation. One very fitting to the presidential campaign and Obama’s debate performance.  It would be interesting to ponder how Jesus might relate to it.

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Counting the cost of the Underserved

Posted on October 11, 2012 by PaulVK

Nice blog post by Mark Hilbelink.

Here was my comment:

I think the dynamic you recognize here is a result of promoting the work of the church as an avenue of facile fulfillment. Serving the needy is part of the Biblical category of turning the other cheek, complete with the obvious risk of simply getting hit twice. In my experience there are one of three motivations:

1. Seeking fulfillment through a romantic confusion regarding service (what you wrote about)
2. An unhealthy messiah complex or co-dependent personality issue (very common in ministry)
3. The excess love of God (the HC uses gratitude) spilling out around us.

We never experience any of the three purely, and most of us have some of each, but only type 3 is healthy and ultimately enduring. pvk

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Church has Luke Skywalker embracing his Heavenly Father

Posted on October 11, 2012 by PaulVK

Hysterical. 🙂

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Female Imams in China

Posted on October 11, 2012 by PaulVK

NY Times piece. 

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Decline of Protestant Americans

Posted on October 11, 2012 by PaulVK

Link to the NY Times writeup. 

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Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled

Posted on October 8, 2012 by PaulVK

http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sikh-woman-get-righteously-schooled Got this from Rachel Held Evan’s Sunday Superlatives which are almost always excellent.

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