Here’s the powerpoint presentation I used for the STM talk. (according to my tech-guru kiffer … it is advisable to right click and save!)
Month: March 2004
Simplistic answers
___________________ In some countries, religious extremism has stepped into the power vacuums left by fall of dictatorships and the end of the Cold War, Tutu said. “That is when fundamentalisms arise, because people then are deeply distressed by complexity,” he said. “They look for simplistic answers.” ~ Desmond Tutu Warns Against Fundamentalism _______________________
Qoheleth and Job
Found this article entitled Qoheleth and Job: Diverse Responses to the Enigma of Evil. I think it’s good follow up on my newly ignited interest on these books. I’ve always found them fascinating!
Things Leaders Do
I borrowed two books on “change” & “management” from STM especially in relation to church. I’ve never felt close to the word “management” but I felt I needed to put my bias aside and look beyond the surface (will post up some goodies soon). For now, on another area of interest I felt Fast Company…
Wisdom from a Farmer
Thanks to McLaren for drawing my attention to Wendell Berry. After prof. Seow’s interesting lecture on Proverbs I thought if the “editor” of Proverbs somehow weaved al those sayings within the rramework of “the fear of the Lord” sometimes my own reading of so called “non-religous” or strictly Christians writing helps me in the same…
Extra Wisdom for today
well … I’m back. I enjoyed the sleep in STM, it’s easy to fall asleep when the whole environment is so quiet. That’s after feeding numerous mosquitos in the last post. 🙂 Prof. Seow “re-enacted” beautifully two chapters of JOB so we could get the theological cues to interpret the whole book. I found his…
Feeding Mosquitos after being fed
well, wi-fi is good right now as I’m sitting outside the STM office trying to key in these words while defending myself from Kamikaze insects! Prof. Seow is a passionate scholar, I can see he puts heart in his sharing. The Wisdom literature intro sparked me probably to read Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiates again with…
Wisdom from OT
It’s nice to have a chance to just sit and be”lectured” to 🙂 especially in under someone like Professor Seow. The insights and info are just fabulous. In our seminar this morning he highlighted the uniqueness of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. I need sometime to process this a bit before I put up more comments….
Wi-Fi Delight
Gareth just loves water and he’s just delighted when he can play in the pool. I guess, I feel a little bit like a kid when I could have Wi-Fi access here in the seminary in Seremban. Cool …. my first blog entry on using Wi-Fi … splash .. splash!
Random Thoughts after Election Results
I was amused with the conversation I had with a malay-muslim uncle who drove the taxi I sat in this morning. He was clearly supportive of the government who would bring development and opportunity and yet he was very happy that Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh our two opposition party heavyweights through the years…