http://www.jamaicaabare.com/ Copyright 2010 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:08:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It has been a long time since I looked forward to bedtime because I wanted to read. Usually I begin to read because I know it is good for me and then I end up enjoying it. The Help, by... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-iii.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-iii.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:08:02 -0800 Discovered, like most things I now treasure, in high school Steinbeck never ceases to disappoint the desire to be drawn into the personalities of a world wholly unlike one's own. Although the strange charmed painting of brothel life in a... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-ii.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-ii.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:43:51 -0800 Spurred on by the thought of a classic author I'd read in high school, and reassured by a recent NPR endorsement, I began Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury this summer. Unfortunately, the narrative of a 12 year old boy's... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-i.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/08/summer-reading-i.html Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:24:31 -0800 You just can't read The Hole in our Gospel, written by the current World Vision President and respond with the affirmation: yes this was a good reminder of the grinding inequality of our world, I am so glad that we... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/a-response.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/a-response.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:59:30 -0800 Yesterday morning my husband and I's debate began by my asking him what he had done the previous evening (I was hanging out with my girlfriends). He told me that he had watched the film "Glory"- the 1998 civil war... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/regaining-imagination.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/regaining-imagination.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:28:26 -0800 When thinking about other faiths I used to think that the biggest threat to the public's belief in Jesus was the existence of other faiths. Now I think a belief that we are alone in this world, and that all... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/where-faith-will-point.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/where-faith-will-point.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:59:14 -0800 "In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all." --Karl Rahner As usual reading a Brennan Manning book-The Furious Longing of God- allures my spirit towards desiring to... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/being-a-mystic.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2010/01/being-a-mystic.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:32:49 -0800 Although I had read The Jesus I Never Knew in high school, I recently felt compelled to rediscover the man I claim to base my life upon. As I had anticipated I found quite a lot that I admired, but... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/10/what-allures-and-disturbs-me-a.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/10/what-allures-and-disturbs-me-a.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:41:48 -0800 After coming across a reading list that our president had constructed for himself and our staff in time magazine six months ago, I thought it would be very cutting edge of me to begin reading along with the leaders of... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/10/reading-with-the-president.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/10/reading-with-the-president.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:03:36 -0800 One of the books I've read lately which I'm sure has the greatest amount of implications for an assessment of our culture is Niel Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Although originally copyrighted in 1985, its assessment reads like a prophecy... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/entertainment-is-our-demise.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/entertainment-is-our-demise.html Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:52:34 -0800 I went to South Africa, wanting God to reaffirm his existence and I sort of expected to be overwhelmed with the astounding visual beauty of the landscape on our Safari. Instead the landscape was sparse and mostly brown with small... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/gods-existence.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/gods-existence.html Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:34:18 -0800 I have always been a big fan of cause marketing and think that this approach is one way that American's consumeristic tendencies can be put to good use. I am one of the suckers who will find a reason to... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/cause-marketing-overload.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/cause-marketing-overload.html Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:14:56 -0800 In Victor Fankl's popular and compelling work-Man's Search for Meaning he describes how mankind's ultimate search is not for pleasure but meaning. We want a reason to be happy; pleasure, he says, must be a byproduct because it is destroyed... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/searching-for-meaning.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/07/searching-for-meaning.html Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:42:35 -0800 1. Walking to the gym the other day I saw the younger Japanese man owner of the sushi restaurant around the corner bow to the older Japanese owner of a convenience store across the alley. It was very early in... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/06/city-musings.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/06/city-musings.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:20:21 -0800 I was challenged recently by DOOR'sdevelopment director to read a book-Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony that the Dweller's in Miami read during their year in community. Since it was written by an author I have long heard of... http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/06/being-different.html http://www.jamaicaabare.com/2009/06/being-different.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:48:53 -0800