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On Mahatma Ghandi’s Birthday – A Challenge to Pray to a Personal God
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Mark Herringshaw
Today is Mahatma Ghandi’s birthday. Ghandi, the spiritual and national father of post-British India is renowned for his none-violent strategies of revolution that led his nation into independence. In my new book, The Karma of Jesus I tell a story of Ghandi recounted by the Christian writer E. Stanley Jones. Here’s that excerpt. When the…
Reactions to David Letterman and Roman Polanski: The New Normal?
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Mark Herringshaw
I’m perplexed – though not terribly surprised – by the base, tribal audience reactions to the revelation last night that David Letterman has been blackmailed by a woman – among several – with whom he had a sexual affair. No surprise there, I suppose. But what disturbed me was the audience reaction – a rowdy,…
Building a Healthy Spiritual Immune System
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Mark Herringshaw
He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love (Ephesians 4:14-16). The H1N1 pandemic – Swine flu – has gone global. Most cases are not critical, but some…
Praying with Our Hearts
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nsymmonds
I was reading an introduction from William Cleary’s book, “We Side with the Morning: Daily Prayers to the God of Hope” when I came across this beautiful passage about prayer, the difficulties some have with it, and what prayer can be compared to. “Some people tell me they have given up on prayer. Why? It doesn’t work, and…
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