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Borrowing from the back of my copy of Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning:
At the heart of his theory is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful.
It seems absurd to borrow words from a book on surviving Nazi death camps when I’m mostly thinking [...]

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A friend sent in this query some months ago. It took me a bit long to get to it, but finally we’re here. He suggested, for discussion, the topic the equality of sin.
Are all sins equal for the God of Christians?
For a more colourful background narrative…
The Hebrew Bible (aka the Old Testament, as Christians call [...]

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About two weeks ago a friend gave me his copy of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. I had read all about it in 2007, having added the following to my mini-blog / delicious bookmarks (biblical+living):

27 SEP 07
A year of following all the rules in the Bible – Boing Boing
“I did everything [...]

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