February 2011
47 posts
New Gene Test For Parents Screens For Nearly 500... →
I’m taking an ethics class this quarter (Issues & Values for you SPUers) discussing many of the issues in the biology field. I know where I stand on many of the issues or at least have a general idea. I’m still not sure what I think of genetic testing…I need to ponder it more, but this article is very interesting.
January 2011
31 posts
“My strength in life is I am Yours;
My soul delights ‘cause I am Yours.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Quotations from “Self-Reliance” shared with me by the lovely Jennah Harper.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
The Rock and the Tide
See a mountain, see an ocean, see the years that bring rock and tide close together. Settle down I said to myself, things that come with time will always be better. Everyone gets what they want too fast, these days no one knows the way to make things last.
Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death -... →
News stories like this break my heart. You can’t entirely blame this man’s death on the Evangelical Christians because the individuals who beat this man to death made their own decisions. But they are still part of a problem. There are times when I don’t like to tell people that I am a Christian and this in no way is because I am ashamed of Jesus. I think Jesus is great, the...
WatchWhat a beautiful mess we are.
WatchBrilliant. This is why I respect Jon Stewart so much.
Selected Remarks of the President in Tucson.
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations – to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.
At a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do – it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are...
Haiti One Year Later.
January 12, 2010.
“The Haitians are amazing and inspiring people. I had a conversation with somebody and I said, ‘I am amazed at the resilience of the people here, how life goes on for them. They continue to bounce back.’ and he said, ‘Yes, sometimes the Haitian people are too resilient. They accept what they get regardless of the fact that they have the right to ask for...
WatchTerrible Tragedy. Wise Words.
Health.
“We need to work on what the societal determinants of health are, we know that the evidence is in that health inequities reflect the embodiment of social inequality. We know that people who are subjected to economic deprivation, to discrimination, to noxious jobs, and environmental hazards have worse health. This is not a mystery. When it becomes a social and political priority to reduce...
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it attached to everything...”
– John Muir
“None of us can put the clock back; we can only speak from where we are, even if...”
– Introduction by Maria Boulding to Augustine’s Confessions
“All human beings have advantages and disadvantages inherent in their particular...”
– The Christian Faith by Colin Gunton
The Orthodox Way Reading One
“Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it is a path along which we journey - in the deepest and richest sense, the way of life.”
“Christ did not say, ‘I am custom’; he said, ‘I am the Life.”
…I think I’m going to like this book…
Words a Cell Can’t Hold
I had imagined being there beneath sunlight
with the procession of martyrs
using just the one thin bone
to uphold a true conviction
And yet, the heavenly void
will not plate the sacrificed in gold
A pack of wolves well-fed full of corpses
celebrate in the warm noon air
aflood with joy
Faraway place
I’ve exiled my life to
this place without sun
to flee the era of Christ’s birth
I cannot face the...
Watch“Because if this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”
Most convicting sermon ever.
“He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we haven’t been told, we’ve all heard...”
“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”
– Unknown (via dorothyhuynh)
