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Creation: Darwin's Tension and Ours
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In the ironically-titled movie Creation we observe the agonizing process of Darwin trying to come to terms with the publication of his book "The Origin of Species."
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Absence of Mind
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Marilynne Robinson is one of the most admired novelists of our time, even though she's only brought out three works of fiction: "Housekeeping," "Gilead" and "Home." The first won the Hemingway/PEN Award and has become a modern classic, the second received the Pulitzer Prize and the third was honored with the Orange Prize. All these novels focus, to a large extent, on depicting the intensely inward, spiritual life -- the interiority -- of their protagonists.
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180° South: Travel, Extreme Sports, Adventure...The Environment
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The beginning of 180° South is deceptive. Conversations of high adventure spliced between footage of rock climbing, surfing and mountaineering may easily trick the viewer into thinking this is a film about extreme sports.
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Two Books, Two Visions and Two Adventist Paradigms
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Two arresting books, both by Adventists and both published in 2009, put into bold relief questions associated with so-called “post-modernism.”
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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In April 1933, during the early months of Nazi rule in Germany, the "Aryan Paragraph," as it came to be called, went into effect.
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Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
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The 14th Psalm begins, “The fool says in his heart, there is no God.” Believing participants in the recent “God debate” have been quick to affix this label to the current crop of infidels.
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Jesus Wars
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In Mark 8:29 Jesus asked his disciples “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.” Simple and clear, right? Well, if so, it certainly proved exceedingly difficult for the church to subsequently work through all of the questions and issues that surrounded and intertwined Peter’s initial declaration.
How do you have both Monotheism and a Triune God? And, is Jesus fully God and fully man? Seemingly intractable paradoxes.
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On Kindness
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On a daily basis, I can’t help but wonder: Do we live in a world where displaying kindness is a weakness? In On Kindness (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009), Adam Phillips, West London psychoanalyst and literary authority, and Barbara Taylor, East London historian, provide an overview of how kindness has been viewed in the western world.
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The Age of the Unthinkable
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"How can the president of the United States declare a war won just when it becomes more violent? How did China, a country with an average daily income of $7 per person, amass nearly $2 trillion in U.S. debt in less than a decade? How is it that the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, a near-billionaire financier himself, can say that the worst of a financial crisis is over in May and then in August find himself furiously battling its destructive global consequences?
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women
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On one page there's a photograph of a woman who's face has been partly erased. It's Naeema Azar, a real estate agent who was burned with acid by her ex-husband. She's pictured with her 12-year-old son, who now leads her everywhere.
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