... movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In this Peter Weir adaptation of one of Patrick O'Brian's twenty best-selling Captain Jack Aubrey novels, a mast collapses during a storm and a seaman is thrown overboard. Captain Aubrey, played impeccably by Russell Crowe, has to make a split-second decision. Either he must try to save the castaway who is clinging to the mast that is dragging the entire ship under water, or he must chop the rope that is causing the entire ship to sink, with every hack ...
... the old African-American farmer. He had lived his life in the poverty of hard-scrabble farming, the injustice of the Jim Crow era, the struggles for food and dignity, but every Sunday he dressed up in the old suit he owned and carried his ... , you will remember some old hymns which are not in the current hymnal. One of those is the stirring hymn from the pen of James Russell Lowell. Scholar, lawyer, statesman, he served as ambassador to Spain and England in the 1800's. He wrote it in 1845 as a protest against ...
... instead of dreaming up a way to feed every hungry child? Why did we nightmare up apartheid and slavery and Jim Crow instead of dreaming up societies of justice and equality? One member of the "buster generation" (those born between 1964 and 1983 ... are not necessarily happier than non-Christians, at least as the world defines happiness. But we are more joyful. But we risk more dreaming. Columnist Russell Baker once wrote in the New York Times that "The truth is I don't feel good most of the time and don't want ...
... distorters of orthodox Christianity. When sincere, but misled, cult members knock on your door, shove a tract in your face, and crow foolish things like, "Jesus is brother to the devil," "Jesus was married and has children in heaven," or "Jesus was a ... We first experience God as creator. Most every morning I hike the forest near my log house. Daisy and Rascal, my two white Jack Russell terriers, happily accompany me. As we hike along the logging trail I repeat the phrase from Genesis 1, "It is good." "It is ...
