Monthly Archives: December 2020

She actually said that?

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Podcast – Brightening the sparks

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Brightening the sparks

Related blog post: What great thing can I do?
Related blog post: What great thing, part 2
Related blog post:  For us
Related essay: “Your Heart’s Desire,” by Emmet Fox

Music: Rita Coolidge, “Higher and higher”
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About Heather Cook

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Bishop called 2010 DUI arrest ‘a major wake-up call’

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Heather Cook, an Episcopalian suffragan bishop in Maryland, has been in the news lately.  A few weeks ago, she was involved in a vehicular homicide, and currently faces charges including vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, texting while driving, and leaving the scene of an accident.

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Franklin Graham, Charlie Hebdo and the “heckler’s veto”

The  most recent terrorist threats we’ve seen have come not from Muslims overseas or Muslims in this country, but from Christians in this country.

On January 14, Duke University announced its plan to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the tower of its chapel every Friday.  Franklin Graham posted on Facebook, requesting that donors withhold donations to the university it reversed that decision.  A firestorm of controversy followed.

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Learning curve

Cornel West channels Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize Obama

Friday 2014-12-26

Learning happiness can take you out of your comfort zone.

So, there can be a learning curve as one comes to tolerate and manage greater degrees of happiness and prosperity than one has been accustomed to.

Some time ago, this short, very thin Korean immigrant with shoulder-length gray hair began coming to the shelter. When he first came here, he was in bad shape; he appeared to have no resources at all.

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Podcast – Truth and love

My father’s favorite Bible verse was John 8:32,
“You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Truth and love

Related blog post: Dez Bryant, love and responsibility
Related blog post: Open heart | The Homeless Blogger
Related podcast: Exonerating Meghan
Related article: Army Hits Back Against False Claim that Soldiers Died in CIA Op to Nab Election Servers | Military.com

Music: The Beatles, “All you need is love”