THOUGHTS ON LIFE:
CHRISTMAS WASTE ANOTHER REFLECTION OF OUR CONSUMERIST LIFESTYLE
In Australia this Christmas, we spent $1 billion on unwanted presents. This further illustrates our society’s addiction to buying presents just for the heck of it at Christmas. As usual, the Murdoch press encourages people to have a whinge by prompting readers to tell them all about any shocker Christmas gifts they received. Thankfully only a couple of people have responded at the time of writing this post, and one of those was thankful for what they received.
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BEEN THINKING: I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS
I’ve been thinking about Christmas a lot… As you do at Christmas!!
I’ve been thinking about sacred spaces. You know, the memory places and iconic activities knitted into times such as Christmas, Easter, birthdays etc.
I am very protective of those places inside. Each year I try to create some space for those activities and thoughts to influence me spiritually. Do you?
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STRANGESIGHTS:
OF KITSCHMAS AND LAST MINUTE GIFT IDEAS...
It’s Kitschmas again at the UK-based Ship of Fools website where this year’s ‘12 Days of Kitschmas’ list includes miniature archbishops to hang on your tree and a nativity scene in which all the characters are rubber ducks (good for the bathtub perhaps?)
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Pakistani Christian communities confronted with the presence of the Taliban and Al-Qaida serve their Muslim neighbors in an unfriendly environment. Christians in the North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan find themselves in the midst of a complex conflict involving regional and global powers. With Pakistani government security forces fighting Taliban from within the country and Al-Qaida militants from beyond it, the border to Afghanistan is not much more than a demarcation line on the map. In the mountainous landscape extremists can roam freely. Add in cross border strikes from US military based in Afghanistan and it is hard to know who is who in the very tense situation. 