Monthly Archives: August 2008

Questions to Take Back to School

To make the most of our educations, whether formal or “continuing”, as they say, we should come with questions needing answers, not just wait for others to pose questions to us. In The Reason for God, Tim Keller gives us a good list with which to begin:

August 30, 2008 – 11:36 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on Questions to Take Back to School

Humility: The Key to the Kingdom

A few weeks ago, listening to a radio interview, I heard  the guest refer to the Bible as “the greatest self-help book ever written.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

August 23, 2008 – 1:44 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on Humility: The Key to the Kingdom

Czech Humor

 Vaclav Klaus’ provocative new book Blue Planet in Green Shackles. What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom.

August 7, 2008 – 4:14 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, History, World Affairs | Comments Off on Czech Humor

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.

August 5, 2008 – 11:26 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in History, Men and Women, Quotations, Theater, World Affairs | Comments Off on Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.

Batman, Hancock, and Bishop Sheen

Many years ago Bishop Fulton J. Sheen delivered a television Christmas message entitled “Superman and Christmas” on his Life is Worth Living television program. With the enormous popularity of the movies Hancock and Batman, some of his ideas are worth re-examining.

August 3, 2008 – 12:52 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Movies, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on Batman, Hancock, and Bishop Sheen