Tom Hooper’s clever and convincing film of King George VI’s lifelong joust with a stammer, The King’s Speech, chronicles many issues; friendship, commitment, the power of equality in human relationships, the power of unconditional love of a woman for a man, the courage to stand when called upon just to name a few. But one [...]
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On Movements and the King’s Speech
February 24th, 2011 · 81 Comments
Tags: Good Stuff · Leadership · Spiritual Formation
On being a writer
February 24th, 2011 · 66 Comments
I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their papers. I would tell them that the great German novelist Thomas Mann said that a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, [...]
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Martin Luther King and the Sermon on the Mount
January 19th, 2011 · 77 Comments
“Loving Your Enemies” is a 1957 King sermon based on a passages from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:43-48: “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your [...]
Tags: Good Stuff · Quotes · Spiritual Formation
Follow-up from Sunday
August 10th, 2009 · 67 Comments
For those wanting to help with school supplies http://projectbluejayschoolsupplies.blogspot.com/ Interested in JAM see below or www.jamafrica.org
Tags: Good Stuff · South Africa
Korn and Jesus
December 27th, 2008 · 66 Comments
Tags: 7 Journeys · Good Stuff