Archive for May, 2010
Is this a Christian creed?
We believe in the Eternal, Sacred, and Mystical God, the Creator of all, who is powerful and all-knowing, who listens, loves, and forgives, and remains willing to be merciful and giving…
The chocolate bond market
British high-end chocolate maker and retailer Hotel Chocolat, which currently operates over 40 stores in the UK, the Middle East and the US, wants to expand even further. But rather than turning to banks or big investors for money, they’re inviting customer to buy bonds. Bonds that will pay chocolate returns.
New Martyr Yevgeny Rodionov
The Muslim executioner told his mother, “Your son had a choice to stay alive. He could have converted to Islam, but he did not agree to take his cross off.”
Are you an asker or a guesser?
In Ask culture, people grow up believing they can ask for anything – a favour, a pay rise – fully realising the answer may be no. In Guess culture, by contrast, you avoid putting a request into words unless you’re pretty sure the answer will be yes…
Do not be afraid
If it teaches even one ignorant child, then it will have been worth getting eaten alive by all these different animals to find out what’s inside.
Kinder, gentler
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives…
Cult of personality
Today at dailydevotions.org:
We could take a cue from Orthodoxy, whose priests stand with their backs to their congregation, leading a liturgy that is neither clever nor impassioned, but simply beautiful, like stone smoothed by centuries of rhythmic tides. It’s an austere ritual, in the sense of — there’s nothing new here; it’s sublime, [...]
Video: Mission in Sierra Leone
Documentary on Fr. Themi, a Greek Orthodox priest currently working as a missionary in Sierra Leone.
Part 1
Part 2
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