~ via Boing boing
Health care chaos
Deserted by Doctors, India’s Poor Turn to Quacks is a report that deserves attention and in some ways i couldn’t help but even see it as an analogy for other areas from education to religion.
Two Journals
I’ve been keeping a spiritual journal since I was 17. Yesterday, i got introduced to the idea of a “management” journal from this book I borrowed from the seminary “Managing the Congregation: Building effective systems to serve people“. I still don’t feel attracted to the word “management” (even though the book is redeeming the word…
Stations of the Cross
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!)
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…