Weirdly (or whatever), my thoughts often turn to death while I am running — but in a good way. When things become crushingly difficult, one of my internal mantras goes something like “I am running for those who can’t,” and frequently I have in mind my mother and grandmother, who are dead, not just out of shape, injured, ill, or lazy
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Running and Death (Or Whatever)
To follow up on Paul Harvey’s earlier post about Thomas Kidd’s God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution , this weekend BookTV is airing a lecture Kidd delivered recently at Indiana Wesleyan University. (Incidentally, as Paul also posted , Indiana Wesleyan is hosting a conference organized by religion scholar Rusty Hawkins , Divided by Faith: A Decade Retrospective , next week.) Find additional information and show times of Kidd’s lecture here
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God of Liberty: BookTV
Randall Stephens I just attended a wonderful session at the 2010 Conference on Faith and History here at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR. This year’s program contains a wide range of panels and plenary sessions. See it here
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Mormonism and Historical Thought at the CFH
Over 700 applicants ignored the boycott call given by the Danga Peerat Welfare Association and turned up at the Guru Nanak Bhawan on Thursday to get their documents verified. A camp was organised by Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tiwari to check the documents pertaining to the allotment of flats to the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Riot victims ignore boycott call, attend camp
About 10 minutes’ drive from the centre of Norwich a group of men and women are putting the finishing touches to what will be Norfolk’s first Sikh gurdwara or temple. Some of them are levelling out the gravel at the side entrance to the flat-roofed shoebox-shaped building.
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Local Sikhs fulfil their temple dream for Norwich
Wellington, Oct 8 (ANI): An Indian origin man, Daljit Singh, who is a Labour candidate running for the Papatoetoe local boards, has been named as one of two men charged over an alleged voting scam in New Zealand. Singh, a real estate agent and chairman of the Supreme Sikh Council of New Zealand, has been charged with forgery to influence the Auckland super-city council election.
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Kiwi-Indian candidate implicated in alleged Auckland city council voting scam
First Church of Christ, located in Bolivar, PA is seeking a full-time evangelist who is committed to proclaiming the Gospel message and the growth of God’s kingdom. We are a conservative, instrumental congregation located in a rural setting in southwestern PA (about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, PA)
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Full Time Evangelist at First Church of Christ
While we are teaching our children to study, research, and write, we need to remember that they are establishing and perfecting tools that they will one day use to God’s glory, depending on their unique, individual talents. Homeschoolers sometimes get so wrapped up in academics they forget the one needful thing. Remember the story of Mary and Martha Martha was very busy with preparations as Mary sat at the feet of Christ.
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One Needful Thing
It’s the thing that no one likes to talk about, the dirty little secret that plagues a good number of us homeschoolers. We don’t dare say it out loud to the “You’re Not Qualified to Teach” crowd, in fact you’ve been avoiding those people for some time now. I am talking about getting behind. I’m talking about that time in your life that finds you having to pick up and move, or maybe you’ve been through a divorce, a death, or illness, overcommitments, too many activities outside the home, a new baby, financial woes, or just simply good old fashion depression. Slowly but surely you’re taking off days weeks or months longer than you ever planned. It happens. Maybe not to all of us, but it does happen. You scramble to catch up, finish that textbook, skipping lessons or even subjects that aren’t as important, schooling year round to “catch up.” Structure and discipline are important, but don’t forget to allow imperfections and life interrupted. Before I go any further, I should say that I live in a home school friendly state , meaning we are considered a private school, there are no tests we have to submit, no forms to turn in. We are pretty much left alone, free to teach our children at home
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Keepin’ It Real: Falling Behind
I am embarrassed on behalf of the neighbor who keeps this unspeakably hideous wall lamp tacked precariously beside his garage door, out in the wide open where people are at risk of seeing it when passing by. Even if he bothered to clear away the dirt and cob webs, it would only more vividly reveal the compact fluorescent light bulb, which, whatever its qualities, was never intended to be seen. Past the bulb and the filth, look at the shape of the thing
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Come, Let Us Plumb the Shallows