Sep 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
COV&R PRESENTATION, May 31-June 4, 2006, Ottawa, ON Canada by Wayne Northey Introduction “The king asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, ‘The same as yours, in infesting the...
Sep 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
Excerpts from an open letter written by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam to Abbot Antony Bergen (addressing Emperor Maxmillian), 1514. Cited in Erasmus and our Struggle for Peace, by Jose Chapiro (Boston: Beacon Press, 1950). I see great movements arising. . . . May...
Aug 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Society is geared to respond to sound. To pick up cues for their entry into conversation, often layering personal comments over those of a companion. Interrupting one another and oneself. Call waiting, the modern brother of a kid tugging at his mom’s sleeve while she...
Jul 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Recovery of Love: Four Contemporary Mystics Address our Contemporary Crisis of Intimacyby Jeff Imbach (Fresh Wind Press, 2005). from page 82-83 It was common in the Christian circles in which I grew up to reduce love to a discussion of the distinctions between the...
Jul 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
"[I]n every work of God there is mercy and justice, so, as they presuppose one another. And as in his created Elements, so in these there is a condensing and rarifying, by which they become and grow into one another. For often that action which was principally...
Jul 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
A while ago, I started getting frustrated with some of the things that I was hearing people saying about people with disabilities. I didn’t like hearing people in my community referred to as “residents” or “the disabled”. These are my friends. These...
