Archive for October, 2006

A Great Generation

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

During his speech in London’s Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, Nelson Mandela remarked, “Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation” (2005). Whether as a young child, a teenager, or a mature adult, I think we have all hoped [...]

Worship as Art and The Art of Worship

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

In reading a recent Newsweek article on 9/11 they took a look back at how people responded to this great tragedy. What they noted was this, “Nothing to do about our collective response to that day has been simple, or neat. Forging art out of tragedy is a primal human response…people respond to [...]

Does God Like Bananas?

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Recently Time Magazine printed an article detailing the uncanny likeness of the behaviors and DNA structure of chimpanzees and humans. I want to spend a little time highlighting some of the research “findings” to set the stage for our own ponderings and musings. The purpose of this article was to present to the [...]