Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

a friend wrote : Five walls enclosing A night's just imposing She struggles upon her knees Worlds in transition A profound new position Who'll hear her quiet pleas? Her kingdom was consuming But like a moth to flame She kept burning wings of freedom Unfocused by the pain How could she be so wrong in Bringing meaning to her name? His presence was assurance She'd forgotten why He came His love so astounding His touch all resounding She bends in His majesty He whispers "Beloved" "It's you that I covet" Alone, she's all that He sees And prostrate on the floor her Tears are mingled with belief No slave is more adored tonight through this Master's kind relief "Don't laugh back tears Or hold the crowd You're my Beloved And I'm still proud To cradle you Throughout this fight Which I've long won And made Love right."

John Henry Newman sets out to defend the idea of Liberal (when I say "liberal" it is in the sense of a Liberal Arts degree)University for the training of young men. (His book is aimed at men and for the purpose of men... I don't know if the education of women at that time was still frowned upon). Within a series of nine discourses (which he initially delivered at the inaugural year of the University in Ireland)he sets out to defend his picture of what a University education should look like. Newman's arguments are logical and well defended with the arguments building, like a tower is built, upon one another. Each discourse takes up a specific thesis and is defended in the following pages. He first demonstrates that Truth is One, that is composed of one overarching, interrelated matrix. There are many systems of thought that are at play, but nonetheless, all Truth is delicately intertwined so that if you neglect one aspect of the Truth in essence you are unraveling the...

John Henry Newman sets out to defend the idea of Liberal (when I say "liberal" it is in the sense of a Liberal Arts degree)University for the training of young men. (His book is aimed at men and for the purpose of men... I dont know if the education of women at that time was still frowned upon). Within a series of nine discourses (which he initially delivered at the inaugural year of the University in Ireland)he sets out to defend his picture of what a University education should look like. Newman's arguments are logical and well defended with the arguments building, like a tower is built, upon one another. Each discourse takes up a specific thesis and is defended in the following pages. He first demonstrates that Truth is One, that is composed of one overarching, interrelated matrix. There are many systems of thought that are a play, but nonetheless, all Truth is delicately intertwined so that if you neglect one aspect of the Truth in essence you are unraveling the binds...

Who "Owns" the Scriptures? A Brief Consideration from a Roman Catholic Perspective: ** Was the Church justified and repressing the translation of the Ancient Scriptures into the Vulgar Tongues of the common people? "This is always a difficult subject—mostly because students of history have to wrap their heads around one very important consideration (before launching off into the analysis mode of “persecution and power”). That consideration is the issue of “ownership of texts” before copyright law. If one once understands that, it makes things a little easier to put in proper perspective. A few hundred years from now, when studying history, I wonder how students will view the draconian copyright laws of the 21st century. Perhaps they will, in that later age, view it as “persecution” that men and women were fined huge sums (or even put in jail) for pirating copies of films, musical pieces, etc., and for selling them on their own, etc. Perhaps they will look at copyrigh...

These are lines from Goethe's Faust : (A young moldable student approached Dr. Faust to learn to speak well) Wagner: Forgive me, But I thought you were declaiming. Been reciting some Greek tragedy, no doubt; I wish to improve myself in this same art; 'Tis a most useful one. I've heard it said, An actor might give lessons to a priest. Faust: Yes! when your priest's an actor, as may happen. Wagner: Oh! if a man shuts himself up forever in his dull study; if one sees the world never, unless on some chance holyday, looks at it from a distance, through a telescope, how can we learn to sway the minds of men by eloquence? to rule them, or persuade? Faust: If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive, If from the soul the language does not come, but its own impulse, to impel the hearts of hearers, with communicated power, in vain you strive -- in vain you study earnestly. Toil on forever; piece together fragments; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, and blow, with ...

I picked up this book upon a recommendation from a friend, once I started I couldnt stop. The life presented in this book is mine in another mans body. Knowing that another soul has gone through such a similar experience breathed life into my soul and I will be forever greatful to Dr. Balmer. Upon finishing the book I was so astonished I had to write Dr. Balmer and thank him. Dr. Balmer has also produce a telling video documentation called " Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory " which every thinking Christian should watch and understand.

A Short Review of Quentin J. Schultz's. Televangelism and American Culture: The Business of Popular Religion. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003. The frightful backdrop of American cultural values gleams through in Televangelism and American Culture as the essay portrays a quintessential description of the purely American phenomenon of televangelism and similar media-based contraptions. Quentin Schultze brilliantly dissects the under girding values of televangelism and compares them to the American cultural values of entertainment, materialism, spirituality, consumerism, narcissism, personality cultism, etc. Schultze has become a student to popular American culture and as a result he is wittingly able to describe the ironically unfortunate situation; his astuteness is vivid and cunning as is demonstrated by the fact that he perceptively adds the subtitle to the book “business of popular religion.” In reviewing Schultze’s work I will attempt to answer two questions: How d...