Short stuff
Researchers using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory have concluded that students are addicted to self-love throughout the United States. Programs in primary and secondary schools aimed at boosting self-esteem with the message “I am special” result rather in narcissism.
—Christian Century
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The Hallmark Channel ran an hour-long documentary Nov. 23 on Pax, an Anabaptist-based service program which ran from 1951–1975. The documentary, Pax Service: An Alternative to War, chronicled the 1,200 volunteers who did relief and development work in 40 countries around the world as alternative service to the military draft. For a copy of the video, go to www.mennomedia.org.
—www.mennonitechurch.ca
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Author, scholar, and pastor Eugene Peterson, who published the everyday-language Bible translation The Message, granted his first-ever television interview to Lorna Dueck of Canada’s Listen Up TV. “This interview with Dr. Peterson is about helping secular people read the Bible,” said Dueck, whose weekly half-hour television newsmagazine airs 23 times a week on 8 networks around the world. To view the segment, go to www.listenuptv.com.
—ListenUp release
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The Perelandra Project has issued a call for papers on C.S. Lewis’s book Perelandra, to be presented at a colloquium along with Perelandra the Opera. Written in collaboration with Lewis between 1960–1964, the opera has been under embargo by film rights. This second premiere will be held in Oxford, England, in June.
—lewisinoxford.googlepages.com/theperelandraproject
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The Word Guild’s website posted a books in print catalogue, listing titles by Canadian authors who write from a Christian faith perspective, including several MB authors. The downloadable catalogue, available at www.thewordguild.com, lists distribution information, ISBN, a brief description, and awards won for each book, as well as author information.
—The Word Guild release
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia discovered that while spirituality accounts for 4–5 percent of an adult’s happiness, from 6.5–16.5 percent of children’s happiness can be accounted for by spirituality. Mark Holder and Judi Wallace tested 315 children aged 9–12, measuring spirituality and other factors such as temperament and social relations. They found that gender, money, and public or private school had virtually no impact on happiness.
—UBC Reports
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With a position running contrary to every government dating back to Oliver Cromwell, British immigration minister Phil Woolas is urging the separation of church and state in Britain. The Times of London editorialized that “disestablishment would in a sense allow the Church of England to be more Christian.” Many British Christians agree. Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia, a think-tank for theological ideas in public life, says, “the established status of the church contradicts ideas of equality, fairness, and justice which Christianity is supposed to stand for.”
—Christian Courier
—Christian Century
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The Hallmark Channel ran an hour-long documentary Nov. 23 on Pax, an Anabaptist-based service program which ran from 1951–1975. The documentary, Pax Service: An Alternative to War, chronicled the 1,200 volunteers who did relief and development work in 40 countries around the world as alternative service to the military draft. For a copy of the video, go to www.mennomedia.org.
—www.mennonitechurch.ca
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Author, scholar, and pastor Eugene Peterson, who published the everyday-language Bible translation The Message, granted his first-ever television interview to Lorna Dueck of Canada’s Listen Up TV. “This interview with Dr. Peterson is about helping secular people read the Bible,” said Dueck, whose weekly half-hour television newsmagazine airs 23 times a week on 8 networks around the world. To view the segment, go to www.listenuptv.com.
—ListenUp release
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The Perelandra Project has issued a call for papers on C.S. Lewis’s book Perelandra, to be presented at a colloquium along with Perelandra the Opera. Written in collaboration with Lewis between 1960–1964, the opera has been under embargo by film rights. This second premiere will be held in Oxford, England, in June.
—lewisinoxford.googlepages.com/theperelandraproject
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The Word Guild’s website posted a books in print catalogue, listing titles by Canadian authors who write from a Christian faith perspective, including several MB authors. The downloadable catalogue, available at www.thewordguild.com, lists distribution information, ISBN, a brief description, and awards won for each book, as well as author information.
—The Word Guild release
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia discovered that while spirituality accounts for 4–5 percent of an adult’s happiness, from 6.5–16.5 percent of children’s happiness can be accounted for by spirituality. Mark Holder and Judi Wallace tested 315 children aged 9–12, measuring spirituality and other factors such as temperament and social relations. They found that gender, money, and public or private school had virtually no impact on happiness.
—UBC Reports
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With a position running contrary to every government dating back to Oliver Cromwell, British immigration minister Phil Woolas is urging the separation of church and state in Britain. The Times of London editorialized that “disestablishment would in a sense allow the Church of England to be more Christian.” Many British Christians agree. Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia, a think-tank for theological ideas in public life, says, “the established status of the church contradicts ideas of equality, fairness, and justice which Christianity is supposed to stand for.”
—Christian Courier
