A song sang during 5PM worship at West83rd Redeemer on 9/28/2014. It was titled "Walk with Me", spiritual/alt by Jeff White.
I am uncertain if it is the same Jeff White on Redeemer's staff. Not that I would be surprised.
The verses had a lot of "walk with me", "You walked with Moses, won't you walk with me", etc., if it is by Jeff White of Redeemer, then this is a terrible song from a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary.
I supposed the orthodox Jews are struggling with their own liberal problem as well.
When I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving & excusing. ~ C.S. Lewis
[quote from The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis. Lewis delivered this sermon at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, on June 8, 1941. It was originally published in 1942 by G. Bles in London and by Macmilan Co., New York.]
Professor: Lou Marinoff
Basically this class talks about Confucius' Analects and LaoZi's Dao De Jing. The professor apparently regards this class from the viewpoint of Buddhism. I intend to take this class as supplement to my Philosophy minor.
Most supplements and syllabus are on his google drive. As for online I-Ching resource, he recommended this.
I shall record my journey of studying Confucius and Lao Zi here.
Resources:
Confucius
Analects
Good comparison between Chinese original and English translation.
http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html
Prof. Marinoff suggested Arthur Waley's translation, the free version online mistaken as Arthur Waley, but was actually translated by James Legge in 1893, which I found out later doing a quick search). Apparently some of the students in class were using fooled by this error as well. Verses are not marked.
Wikipedia lists notable translations, some of which are available freely online. I cannot find any parallel comparison site online as the one I found for Lao Zi's Tao De Ching. I could start a project website for a translation comparison chart. I also should mirror backup Lao Zi's http://www.mobilewords.pro/Tao/.
Lao Zi
Tao De Ching
Lots of English Translators Comparison (Prof. Marinoff's book is translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (初大告) & Stephen Mitchell). It would appear that Red Pine has very accurate translation.
http://www.mobilewords.pro/Tao/
A good Chinese source, with pinyin, no verse labels but tedious explanation.
http://www.zxuew.cn/daodejing/
Apparently reliable chinese explanation, with Chinese medicinal application.
http://doc.zenw.org/ddj/
Chinese Text with some English Translations Comparison, but translations are a little off sometimes. However, Chinese Characters have pinyin and definitions. The same site has other books such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daodejing.php
Prof. took a day off on 10/14 for a trip to Italy for the Global China Business Meeting hosted by horasis.org (which also hosts India, etc. Business Meeting).
Not long ago, I laughed at the irony of abortionists willing to charge killing pregnant mothers and their unborns as double homicide.
Now, this is another irony of the liberals involving homosexual fallacy.
In his sermon @ 27:30 min: 2014-09-07 - The Great Question (1 of 3) - Are You the One (Matthew 11.1-6), Timothy Keller said:
"You have not come to grips with Jesus Christ unless you have wrestled with His offensiveness. If He is not offensive to you, you've never felt that, if it's never been a struggle for you, then you don't know who He is!"
This is one of the reasons I don't mind when people call Tim Keller or Redeemer NOT reformed. Because that line alone separates fake reformers (those who have lots of reformed knowledge but have no fruit) from those who practices reformed theology (There is no need to keep shouting "we are reformed, reformed, we sponsor reformed preachers, we buy lots of reformed books").
This is the kind of sermon, in spite of fake reformers' approval or disapproval, I would simply conclude: Those who have ears, let them hear.
I have always maintained that to be a good Buddhist you need a graduate degree in philosophy. You cannot understand Buddhism otherwise. - Ravi Zacharias (The New Age, Part 4, September 25 2014 Podcast)
Interesting. Even more interesting is the chief advocate of this hypothesis is Joel Brind whom Janet Mefferd interviewed on 9/24/2014 of CUNY Baruch College in NYC. New York City, one of the most liberal place.
