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A La Carte (9/21)

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Friday September 21, 2007

Blog Appraisals
Timmy Brister has a good (if subjective) word to say about appraising blogs.


The Qur’an
The Pulpit blog considers the Qur’an and its source.


The Soaring Loonie
Just five years ago a Canadian dollar was worth only 60% of a US dollar. Today they are at par. Is Canada’s dollar climbing…or is the American dollar falling?


Books in Prison
Doug Groothuis mentions a Prison Fellowship article about religious books being banned from prisons.


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    At times we all live burdened lives, weighed down by the cares and concerns, the trials and traumas that inevitably accompany life in this world. And while we sometimes feel crushed by life’s heaviest burdens—the death of a loved one, the rebellion of a child, the onset of a chronic illness—we can also sometimes stagger…

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    Understanding Trauma

    I don’t remember encountering the world “trauma” very often in my younger years, yet recently I seem to hear it all the time. What was once deemed a rare experience or one rarely talked about, has become a common experience and one talked about both openly and often. Where perhaps it was once defined so…

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  • A La Carte Thursday 1

    A La Carte (March 13)

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