From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Real love vs. Toxic “love”

by angela on August 27, 2009

This bears repeating and applies to all relationships (spouses, parents, children, relatives, & friends) :
1. Real love is development of self love first. Toxic love is development or obsession with the relationship.
2. Real love wants everyone to grow. It gives love room. Toxic- Security, comfort in sameness; intensity of need seen as proof of love [...]

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Bonfire of the Vanities

by angela on August 20, 2009

What does it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
-Matthew 16: 26

When we watched “Bonfire of the Vanities” last night we noticed that the same problems seem to plague the media today. Especially as [...]

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School Myth

by angela on August 5, 2009

This wound is largely self-inflicted. “Generations have been raised not to question authority” or think critically, says a leading Arab reform advocate, who asked not to be named because of the political sensitivities involved. “This was on the premise that by doing so you raise a docile population—but the results have been just the opposite.”
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