July 2008
9 posts
Eleven Preferences and Three Classics
Go ahead and post your answers to the following questions.
Below are 11 preferences and then 3 classic questions:
Preferences:
Briefs or Boxers?
Burger King or McDonalds?
Coke or Pepsi?
Common or Kanye?
Flip Flops or Shoes? Gin & Tonic or Rum & Coke?
Local Coffee Shop or Starbucks?
Mac or PC?
Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Mornings or Night?
Peanut or Plain...
Doo So Pochonoboi Din
When I started this blog I dedicated it to our loving fish, Sebatenga Asa. His name means “Seventh Fish” in Ethiopian. He was, obviously, the seventh fish that Phileena and I tried rearing.
Sadly, while traveling in India last month Sebatenga Asa passed away. He died at our home in Omaha while we were in Calcutta. Thankfully he didn’t die alone, but was cared for from this life into the next by...
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Authority
Okay here’s a question.
All you have to do is choose one of the two options and then post your preference as a comment.
Whichever option gets seven votes first will be considered the authoritative version:
a) the Bible
b) the Holy Bible
“We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but also about...”
– Arundhati Roy, The Shape of the Beast (New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2008) page 67.
Praying in the Face of Suffering
I first visited Calcutta in 1993. I came to volunteer with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
The volunteers get started pretty early. Mass is at 6:30 followed by a breakfast of toast and a banana with a cup of chai. Following breakfast everyone jumps on buses or the subway, making their way to the various homes to begin the first shift for the volunteers which starts at 8:00 AM.
In the...
Making it Work
In our community, Word Made Flesh, we’ve created open spaces for relationships with some of the most vulnerable of the world’s poor.
Because of the intensity of our service environments (slums, favelas, refugee camps and red-light districts), they are not places where people should casually visit. It has taken years and years to build trust in the neighborhoods where our communities locate...
The Cost of Exposure
This week in Calcutta has been hard for me.
Yesterday our friend Kristin took Phileena and me into the red-light district where she has been trying to help women find freedom. After stopping several times to introduce us to dozens of her friends, one of the women invited us to her home for a cup of tea. Following her, we walked down a tiny side alley and into one of the brothels. The building...