becoming

From my recent quotes and posts, you can tell that I have purchased a few books since August:

On Emotions:

• Feel: A Revolution Of The Heart
• Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotion In The New Testament
• The Consolations Of Theology

On Church & Culture:

• Intelligent Church
• Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith In A Culture Of Displacement
• The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time
• The Living Church
• Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society: Engaging With an Emerging Culture
• How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative
• Watchmen

On NT World & Background:

• In The Shadow Of The Temple: Jewish Influences On Early Christianity
• Arguing With Scripture the Rhetoric of Quotations in the Letters of Paul
• Rome & Jerusalem

The Evolving Church: Amidst the Powers will seek to identify and wrestle with the powers, and forces of oppression in the world. Inspired by Ephesians 6 and Paul’s claim that our battle is not against flesh and blood, we will seek to answer the question: how can the Church exist as a distinct faith community that does not succumb to the powers that surround her, but instead offers a different way of being amidst the oppression?

EFC issued their Election Kit 2008. A pdf version can be downloaded here.

Canadians will go to the polls Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Once again, important issues are at stake in this federal election.

Canada needs strengthened families and secure marriages. Canada needs to protect its most vulnerable: children, the poor, the unborn and the disabled. Canada needs to share its blessings with the world, especially meeting commitments made to foreign relief and development work.

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「有料的人，從不需要告訴別人他怎樣有料；
無料的，再多講，人地只會更肯定你無料。」

這是我從小時候，爸爸言教、身教的一句話。
我，一生受用，

只想記下。

Kelly Abbottis from lifehacker, wrote about how to read well. I am glad that it echoes some of the points I made earlier in here, namely, the “toilet read”.

Conference 回來，心久久未能平復。

我們「想當然」的北美生活，對比他人，從來都自知幸福，卻不能想象是如此幸福。

當然，這樣的會議，一堆又一堆的數字，是必然的衝了又來。

數字不是問題，

問題是，

為何發生在自己的國家就不可以，發生在別人之地卻無慟於衷？

然而

我不內疚，

不內疚不代表不慚愧，

不內疚，

因為我知道內疚只會花光我僅有的氣力，

吸乾我的衝動，

世界不會因為內疚而改變，

The world will change only when the good people do something.

Something.

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links:
International Justice Mission
World Vision
Masai For Africa
Make Poverty History
Absolute Leadership Development

I am heading off to the Why Everything Must Change Conference. Blogging will resume Sunday.

And no, I won’t be blogging during the conference. ;-)

Yeah, talking about meaningless and cruelness of reality… that’s why everything must change.

and did I mention it’s free?

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