here we go again

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/aug/28/religion-christianity

http://biblicalproportionsreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/searching-issues-what-is-christian.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_course

http://www.flameout.org/flameout/islam/gumbel_alpha1.html

The Alpha program is too conservative for me, it's too rigid for me. I can live with that. Here I am once again challenged by the stance Gumbel takes on gays.... I'm thinking I might have to contact Alpha itself, before Knox offers it again..... more later.

Heidi Heidi Hei

We never really know the personal lives of others. Oddly, at the Bank, we get longer glimpses than most people. We have to ask; they have to tell us. Unfortunately, they don't alway tell - and when we hear they've left their spouse, gone into rehab, quit their jobs out of frustration, bought a house through private financing... we sigh because we could have better advised them if they'd told us.
Mostly, they want to tell. Sometimes, more than we want to know. More than we can use to assist them with finances. The mental notes that don't make it into the official notes. The coded notes "client prefers not to bring spouse to any appointments".
And our co-workers - how much do we really know about their lives? We know about their pets and their children and what they did on the weekend. But the knowing only goes so far. Why is she tired, really? Why is she working late all the time now? Why is she dressing so nice now? I'm a people person. I am interested, and genuinely concerned. Only sometimes, sometimes, you kind of don't want to know. And sometimes, you don't want to tell.