Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9
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William E. Keeney
... . 2. Thankful for Criticism. Mother Teresa has received some severe criticism in recent years. It came both in a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens and in The Door, a magazine of a Texas-based religious order. She had received major gifts from Charles Keating, who was convicted for junk bond dealings in a savings and loan scandal. He had contributed over a million dollars to her organization. She also had use of his private jet. Critics also question the sanitation in her clinic and the adequacy of ...
... he would not have finished writing The Lord of the Rings, sections of which he read aloud at weekly meetings with Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield, who would also read from the works they were writing at the time. The very air you breathe ... than anything else in his life." David understood that. He knew how to share the good news of God with great enthusiasm. Keats, in one of his letters uses a vivid expression to describe the literature of Shakespearean England. He speaks of the "indescribable ...
