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Read about important Swaziland HIV and AIDS work
DISCIPLES TAKE UNFORGETTABLE MISSION TRIP TO SWAZILAND Disciples from Indiana and Kentucky have powerful memories of a mission trip that took them to Swaziland, whose population has the world’s highest infection rate of HIV and AIDS in the world. The 11 Disciples, who were mostly from First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Shelbyville, Ind.,Continue reading “Read about important Swaziland HIV and AIDS work”
I thank God for Anne Rice
Check it out at http://www.shelbynews.com/articles/2010/08/14/news/doc4c64a796ec21c433944293.txt Nathan Day Wilson
Environmental concerns challenge us all
Environmental concerns are not only for scientists, lawyers and policy-makers. They are for all of us, not least since we all have moral responsibility for future generations. Nathan Day Wilson
PEN Award finalists announced
From today’s Washington Post, written by Marissa Newhall: Books by Sherman Alexie, Barbara Kingsolver, Lorraine M. López, Lorrie Moore and Colson Whitehead are finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced Tuesday. Alexie’s short-story collection “War Dances” and Kingsolver’s historical novel “The Lacuna” are in contention for the $15,000 prize alongContinue reading “PEN Award finalists announced”
Wrestle with life, then grow and learn
Wrestle with life, then grow and learnPublished: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:11 AM US/easternBy NATHAN DAY WILSON Wrestling with life, while always difficult and sometimes traumatic, is both unavoidable and, more importantly, necessary because wrestling with life helps us develop vision in life as well as expectations. Wrestling with life gives us insight as wellContinue reading “Wrestle with life, then grow and learn”
Journaling
Feeling emotional? Write it downBy Nathan Day WilsonPublished: Friday, February 5, 2010 9:11 AM US/eastern I love the ability of writing to change lives. My life, your life, our lives as a community — writing has the capacity to change them all, and change them for the better. One of the ways our individual livesContinue reading “Journaling”
Delta’s Customer Disservice
It’s hard to know whether Delta or Northwest has worse customer service. With their merger, I suspect the two employ a scorekeeper to mark which representatives have not helped the most customers. Today my guess is that Delta is in the lead. Nathan Day Wilson
Dónde está el amor?
“Dónde está el amor?” This was the question posed by a priest in mass today outside Chiapas, Mexico. “Where’s the love?” he asked us – when some control so much and manipulate those who have so little; when some limit education to the wealthy only; when some restrict the flow of natural resources, such asContinue reading “Dónde está el amor?”
Now I’ve read some boring books in my life. Of that, there is no doubt. But at least I can say that most, perhaps all, of my boring reads were assigned, not selected. Not so for my neighbor on a flight today. He, by choice, was reading Robert’s Rules of Order: All You Need toContinue reading
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