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"I Have Two Dollies"

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When I was a boy in Sabbath School, I remember the leaders teaching all of us little tykes a ditty that has hung around in the back room of my mind ever since—did you learn it, too? I have two dollies and I am glad; you have no dolly and that’s too bad. I’ll share my dolly, for I love you; And now you have a nice dolly, too. Ostensibly this little chorus was to impress upon our young minds the credo that sharing is the right way, the happy way, the Jesus’ way. (I don’t recall a verse for us boys about sharing—perhaps at that age we all played with dolls!)

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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.

How to Heal the Pain When You Can’t Feel the Pain

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How can you heal someone’s pain, when you can’t feel someone’s pain? There is pain deep within our faith community and our university campus. And the truth is most of us can’t feel it

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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.

Mikhail Gorbachev, C. S. Lewis & Jesus

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In the latest issue of TIME magazine, the leader of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, writes an op-ed piece that begins: “The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policy makers seem to be confused and at a loss. . . .

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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.

The Confession of Julian Barnes

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A friend of mine put me onto the Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith (Calvin College) and his book, How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor . Smith’s book, as it turns out, is “an idiot’s guide” (my words) to the massive tome (900 pages) of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, Secular Age —a work recognized as a definitive analysis of our secular age. Smith describes Taylor’s work as “a genealogy of the secular and an archaeology of our angst” (ix) and sets out to make Taylor’s provocative conclusions accessible to the rest of us mortals

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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.

The Common Swift’s Uncommon Lesson

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I listened to a fascinating report by Charles Osgood on his “The Osgood File” this week. Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have been studying the flight patterns of the common swift, that black ubiquitous bird (about the size of a barn swallow) found across Europe and the United Kingdom.

Read more at the source: The Common Swift’s Uncommon Lesson

Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from The Fourth Watch.

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