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Logos was in Bangladesh
Those were the days! This photo just landed in our Inbox. It was 1972, MV Logos was in Bangladesh & Dr Harawatiki (white hair) the ship's doctor was visiting remote villages, hosting medical clinics. Kertstin Littlejohn, in the blue dress, was the...
Unlimited Guest List
Seated around a table, enjoying friendship and food, pausing and noticing the other guests. Unlimited Guest List Oil Painting by Hyatt Moore
Claude Landmann Revealed the Holocaust Through the Memories…
Claude Lanzmann died a few days ago, July 5, 2018. His epic movie, “Shoah”, released in 1985, revealed the Holocaust through the memories of survivors, victims and perpetrators. While writing A Garland for Ashes, seeking elusive facts about my parents’...
The Zeal of Thy House
Dorothy L Sayers, author, born 1893, continues to inspire writers today. In her 1937 play, “The Zeal of Thy House” she wrote, “…Humans manifest the ‘Image of God’ through creativity… Any creative work has three distinct components: the Creative Idea, the...
One Voice
A year ago, June 2017, we were in the Circus Maximus, Rome, a place of martyrdom for early Christians. Led by Raniero Cantalamessa we cried out with one voice, "Jesus is Lord". We were together for the 50th Anniversary of the Charismatic Renewal in the RC...
Let Us Be Tenfold Careful…
..."If God has given any insight into the reality of His Being, and our relation to Him… let us be tenfold careful about our fellow man, that we do him no wrong." George MacDonald in a sermon preached more than 100 years ago in Westminster Chapel, London…...
Totalitarianism
Refugees...Suffering...How do I respond to the daily diet of words and pictures from, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Russia and the Americas? Hannah Arendt, Philosopher, a refugee herself, wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. "How could...
Costly Grace
Church & Politics: Just downloaded the Kindle version of Costly Grace, by Rob Schenck, who played a pivotal role in forging the alliance between evangelicals & the Republican party. He "is now a voice for ethical reform in evangelicalism...
Stolperstein Verlegung in Koblenz: May 8, 2018
My heart-felt thanks to all of you who have come to witness the laying of Stolpersteine for my three aunts. Perhaps the year was 1937. I would have been five years old when I walked through the front door of the grand house that stood here at Markenbildchenweg 30. I...
A Danger and a Threat to Society in Any Era
Josef Pieper, a German philosopher, 1904-1997, wrote this essay in 1974. His life spanned WW1, the turbulent 1920's and the Nazi years. Abuse of Language - Abuse of Power begins with antiquity and the Sophists, experts in the art of twisting words. He writes of their...