Saturday, November 30, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Values in Knowledge Foundation and Inter Religious Federation for World Peace, Efforts in November, 2013
Jean Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg
Alain Nacache, Chief Rabbi of Luxembourg
Here is a synopsis of the journey
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Monday, September 09, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Anton Chekhov on the 8 Qualities of Cultured People
by Maria Popova
What does it mean to be “cultured”? Is it about being a good reader, or knowing how to talk about books you haven’t read, or having a general disposition of intellectual elegance? That’s precisely the question beloved Russian author Anton Chekhov, born on this day in 1860, considers in a letter to his older brother Nikolai, an artist. The missive, written when Anton was 26 and Nikolai 28 and found in Letters of Anton Chekhov to his Family and Friends (public domain; public library), dispenses a hearty dose of tough love and outlines the eight qualities of cultured people — including honesty, altruism, and good habits:
Read the entire article here
“In order to feel comfortable among educated people, to be at home and happy with them, one must be cultured to a certain extent.”
What does it mean to be “cultured”? Is it about being a good reader, or knowing how to talk about books you haven’t read, or having a general disposition of intellectual elegance? That’s precisely the question beloved Russian author Anton Chekhov, born on this day in 1860, considers in a letter to his older brother Nikolai, an artist. The missive, written when Anton was 26 and Nikolai 28 and found in Letters of Anton Chekhov to his Family and Friends (public domain; public library), dispenses a hearty dose of tough love and outlines the eight qualities of cultured people — including honesty, altruism, and good habits:Thursday, June 20, 2013
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Lectures at D.O.N.E. - May, 2013
D.O.N.E (Development of New environments) is a European based youth leadership program.
Participants train themselves through service, spiritual regimen, seminars and education, and fiscal and life-style responsibility and self-sufficiency.
The program trains participants to forge and develop cross cultural competence and relationships through travel and interpersonal collaboration in all areas of training.
I have been blessed with the opportunity for the past many years to teach during the classroom education component of the program. I teach on self-development, social harmony, environmental sensibility, and self-sufficiency.
This year my son Frone is in the program.
Here are a couple of shots taken at the end of our studies this year:
Just prior to my time teaching, the group toured Israel and Palestine on a peace and service mission.
Here is a lovely video of their travels in the Holy Land
Participants train themselves through service, spiritual regimen, seminars and education, and fiscal and life-style responsibility and self-sufficiency.
The program trains participants to forge and develop cross cultural competence and relationships through travel and interpersonal collaboration in all areas of training.
I have been blessed with the opportunity for the past many years to teach during the classroom education component of the program. I teach on self-development, social harmony, environmental sensibility, and self-sufficiency.
This year my son Frone is in the program.
Here are a couple of shots taken at the end of our studies this year:
Just prior to my time teaching, the group toured Israel and Palestine on a peace and service mission.
Here is a lovely video of their travels in the Holy Land
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The most and least Christian states in America
A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, "2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations; Membership Study (RCMS)" was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county-by-county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups. (The survey differentiates between specific denominations within the same tradition.)
The researchers found Utah to be the most Christian* state with around 78 percent of population identifying as Christian adherents. The researchers found Maine to be the least Christian state with only about 27 percent identifying as Christian adherents.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
A photograph from "The Streets of Dublin" collection by Michaela Alex
A young man playing piano on the street
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Symposium to Honor Pioneering Bible Scholar, Daniel Patte
On April 6 scholars gathered at Vanderbilt University to celebrate the illustrious career of New Testament Scholar, Professor Daniel Patte.
I was one of the presenters on this occasion.
Here are some of the documents for the symposium
I was one of the presenters on this occasion.
Here are some of the documents for the symposium
Here are some images from the weekend.
The first of them are pictures of the Scaritt-Benett campus where the visiting scholars for the symposium was held. Scaritt-Benett was once a United Methodist Seminary, and is now run by the denomination as a conference facility.
A couple of pictures are from a stroll around one evening, and the final ones are from the symposium itself
I published a popular article on the symposium as well
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Pope washes feet of young Muslim woman prisoner in unprecedented twist on Maundy Thursday
Pope Francis continued his gleeful abandonment of tradition by washing the feet of a young Muslim woman prisoner in an unprecedented twist on the Holy Thursday tradition.
Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 inmates aged 14 to 21, among them the two women, the second of whom was an Italian Catholic. Mr Greco said he hoped the ritual would be "a positive sign in their lives".
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Mass for the beginning of the Petrine ministry of the bishop of Rome
Click on the image of the Vatican Website to read the sermon of Pope Francis
In the Gospel we heard that "Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as his wife" (Mt 1:24). These words already point to the mission which God entrusts to Joseph: he is to be the custos, the protector. The protector of whom?
Read the entire, brief sermon here at the Vatican website
Monday, March 18, 2013
Orthodox patriarch to Rome for pope's installation
Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, headed Monday for the Vatican to attend Pope Francis' installation Mass -- the first time a patriarch from the Istanbul-based church is attending a papal investiture since the two branches of Christianity split nearly 1,000 years ago
Friday, March 15, 2013
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