Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
The Anatomy of Patriotism – Flags and Anatomy Head Model
Posted in Art Thief, Politics, tagged american flags, anatomical models, anatomy, flags, libraries, library, photography, photos on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
arabian sea – Haiku / Poetry on the Death and Burial of Osama Bin Laden
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Pakistan, Poetry, Politics, Senryu, tagged 911, al qaeda, arabian sea, conflict, death, forgiveness, ground zero, guilt, Haiku, islam, James Martin, john brown, john brown's body, lady macbeth, osama bin laden, pakistan, poems, Poetry, sea of forgetfulness, terrorism, united states, war, war on terror on Monday, May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
in murky depths a body lies a mouldering; arabian sea arabian sea, all the perfumes of the land cannot clean stained hands arabian sea, it cannot yet be that sea, of forgetfulness __________________________ Also, though I am not a Catholic and so do not know exactly what to make of this author’s mention of the [...]
Helping Your Neighbor, Loving Your Enemies – Pakistan Flood Relief
Posted in Blogness, Church Life and Theology, Culture, Politics, World Affairs, tagged charity, Christianity, disaster relief, disasters, flood relief, flooding, floods, haiti, hillary clinton, indus river, islam, junoon, libguides, news, pakistan, pakistan floods, pakistani flooding, Politics, religion, salman ahmad, st. louis community college, unhcr, united states on Friday, August 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When the Haiti earthquake occurred, the response in our country was immediate and overwhelming, and with good reason, as so many people lost their lives. The needs continue to be great and help should continue to flow. The response to the Pakistani flooding, though, in both dollars and attention, seems to be muted in comparison. [...]
Helping the Displaced in Pakistan
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Politics, tagged charity, conations, displaced persons, mercy corps, pakistan, refugees, swat, swat valley, taleban on Monday, May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
-Image from the BBC The picture above is from this story which describes some stories of people who have been displaced by the fighting between the Pakistani Army and Taleban insurgents in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. If you read some of these stories, particularly one about the teacher, you get a sense of how [...]
Pixels to Start Your Mind, Break Your Heart, Move Your Feet: A Worldmapper Discussion
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Church Life and Theology, Culture, Library Stuff, Personal Growth or Lack Thereof, Politics, tagged africa, america, china, drought, earth at night, earth lights, exports, geography, imports, malaria, toys, university of sheffield, world, worldmapper on Monday, March 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In my work as a librarian I came across this amazing site, which is thought provoking and alternately heartbreaking or amusing, though much too much more the former. The way it works is a bit like a semi inflated balloon in ones hands. If you compress one part of the balloon another part of the balloon [...]
Back Home From the Pub
Posted in Haiku, Politics, Senryu, tagged electric kettle, Haiku, kettle, pub, Senryu, tea on Friday, February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back home from the pub. The red kettle chortles. My Nightcap is steeping.
The Dassler Effect, A Retrospective
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Blogness, Catapult Magazine, Church Life and Theology, Culture, God's Grandeur, Guest Blogger, Haiku, Influences, Library Stuff, Literature and Language, Movies and Television, Music, Personal Growth or Lack Thereof, Poetry, Politics, Sonnets, tagged blog, c. s. lewis, Culture, dassler effect, film, literature, movies, Music, photography, Poetry, Politics, tolkien on Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, this new version of The Dassler Effect has had a more promising start than I could have imagined. And yet its previous incarnation was no slouch either (it still shows up first on Google). Because it was around for longer, it has far more more photos on it than the current blog and there [...]
Francis Schaeffer Lecture Series, Fall 2008, On Politics
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Politics on Friday, September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like this will be an interesting and timely series. It is free, but registration is required. With 18 months of unprecedented media coverage, a barrage of TV advertisements, and a couple of surprise decisions…the upcoming Presidential election has been the most talked about Presidential process in American History. Yet, as questions emerge about the [...]