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-1 - 04 Apr 2007 20:12 GMT
By His Fruits

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Henri Nouwen and 'Journey of the Heart'

Let it not be said that nothing good ever comes out of public television. Although
Christians have sometimes had reason to criticize PBS and its programming-I
have, anyway-they have also given us a lot to celebrate. Their newest offering
that I can recommend is a documentary that many PBS stations across the country
are airing this Easter season, "Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen."

Nouwen, before his untimely death a few years ago, was one of the most
influential Christian thinkers and writers of recent times. I had the great pleasure to
meet him when he was teaching at Harvard. After I had given my testimony and a
little apologetic message to the students at Harvard Divinity School, we went back
to Nouwen's apartment for coffee. He questioned my use of apologetics, turned
to my wife, Patty, who was with me, and said, "Why don't you just say you love
Jesus the way you love Patty?"

I said, "But they've just met Patty. They know she exists."

He was something of an existentialist, but he was an inspiring man. At the peak of
a brilliant career, he took time out to live at the community of L'Arche Daybreak
in Canada and help care for the physically and mentally disabled-serving the least
of these.

Now, of course, the fear is that when such a figure is profiled on PBS-or any TV
station, for that matter-that his faith will be watered down and his message
diluted into some vague feel-good pap deemed acceptable to the multiculturally
minded. I am happy to report that that is not the case at all in this documentary.
The emphasis is often on Henri's message of God's love for humanity and the fact
that each of us is God's "beloved child"-a message that, tragically, is often
distorted today to make it sound as if God loves us so much that He does not care
what we do.

But Nouwen did not make that mistake, and the film doesn't either. "Journey of
the Heart" emphasizes repeatedly that the source of Nouwen's faith, calling, and
identity was Jesus Christ. And the cost of discipleship in Henri's life-to borrow a
phrase from another great Christian thinker-is also very much on display here.
Many people interviewed for the film discuss his struggles with depression or "self-
rejection." It is made clear that the reason for his emphasis on God's love, and his
ability to identify with the broken and wounded, was precisely that he often felt
unloved and unworthy.

Now, the film acknowledges that Henri Nouwen was no perfect saint. But the way
he lived out Christ's love should be an inspiration to all of us. One of the most
moving parts of the "Journey of the Heart" is when disabled members of the
L'Arche Daybreak community talk about how much Nouwen meant to them and
how much they still love and miss him. What an example of the truth that Christ
spoke when He said, "By their fruits you shall know them."

If "Journey of the Heart" airs in your area this Easter season, why don't you take a
moment to contact your PBS station and thank them? If it's not airing in your area,
contact your station and ask them to air it. You will find a list of stations with their
contact information below. Public response is key here, and PBS needs to know
that the message of Christ's love, as lived out by one of His modern-day
followers, is a message to which many of us gladly and thankfully respond.

By Chuck Colson
4/4/2007

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning, and Truth in Your Life by Charles
Colson with Harold Fickett.

Learn more about Henri Nouwen and find out whether and when "Journey of the
Heart" airs on your local PBS station. Find resources for "Journey of the Heart"
here.

Learn more about L'Arche Daybreak.

Harry Forbes, "'Journey of the Heart,' Film on Henri Nouwen, to Air on PBS,"
Tidings, 30 March 2007.

Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
(Crossroad, tenth anniversary ed., 2002).

Henri Nouwen, Here and Now: Living in the Spirit (Crossroad, 2002).
Kurt Gavin - 04 Apr 2007 21:36 GMT
Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.

Start your healing here:  http://www.evilbible.com/
Condemned and Stricken Flying Rat - 04 Apr 2007 22:56 GMT
> Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
> creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.
>
> Start your healing here:  http://www.evilbible.com/

Chung's favourite website

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ghfmir/main/index.html

Note the list of upcoming funerals they intend to defile. Chung is doing
his bit by howling for the death of his nemesis, Bob Pastorio.

Chung worships Fred Phelps.

FR
Kurt Gavin - 04 Apr 2007 23:08 GMT
>> Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
>> creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.
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>
> FR

Yeh, they are particularly detestable people.

Here's something that to these people, is like holding a vampire out in the
sunlight....

On whether the US was founded as a Christian nation: the treaty with Tripoli
drafted in 1796 under George Washington and signed by John Adams in 1797
reads:
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the
Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the
laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselman; and as the said states never
have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Moslem nation, it
is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions
shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two
countries.
Condemned and Stricken Flying Rat - 04 Apr 2007 23:25 GMT
> >> Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
> >> creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.
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>
> Yeh, they are particularly detestable people.

Chung idolises Phelps. He has frequently said so here.

> Here's something that to these people, is like holding a vampire out in the
> sunlight....
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two
> countries.

The Constitution is secular. Only in the 20th Century was the "under
God" part added to the Pledge of Allegiance, and then no distinction
made between the gods of Islam, Judaism, Christianity or the rest.

If the world was as tightly bound up as these boobs want it to be, Chung
might have been executed as an apostate by now.

Have you noticed he is hiding again? I think I might have overdone his
training recently as he's been wailing and snapping on the leash quite a
bit. He is skulking off during the daytime, pretending he is working,
but keeps popping out from under his rock because he can't resist the
bait.

here Chunky. Time to be beaten like a rented mule again. Isn't that
something else these ultra-religious types like as well?

FR
Father Haskell - 04 Apr 2007 23:28 GMT
On Apr 4, 6:25 pm, Condemned and Stricken Flying Rat
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> In article <QlVQh.18323$PL.4...@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> bugger...@s.com says...
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>
> FR

Here, kitty, kitty.  Here, Chung.  Time for din-din!
Kurt Gavin - 04 Apr 2007 23:50 GMT
> On Apr 4, 6:25 pm, Condemned and Stricken Flying Rat
> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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>
> Here, kitty, kitty.  Here, Chung.  Time for din-din!

It would be interesting to know what goes on in his f.cked up mind.

Most of these god ranters are just stupid and ignorant, and there really
ISN'T anything going on in their minds aside from what they have been
brainwashed with.

But Chung was an educated man. My guess is a type of brain injury that he
references as having occured when he was "murdered" by the police in 1997.
New Toy - 05 Apr 2007 05:25 GMT
It would be interesting to know what goes on in his f.cked up mind.

Most of these god ranters are just stupid and ignorant, and there really
ISN'T anything going on in their minds aside from what they have been
brainwashed with.

But Chung was an educated man. My guess is a type of brain injury that he
references as having occured when he was "murdered" by the police in 1997.

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Kurt Gavin - 04 Apr 2007 23:50 GMT
>> >> Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic
>> >> fantasy
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
> Chung idolises Phelps. He has frequently said so here.

Ted Haggard used to rale on about god hating the queers, too.

I think homosexuality is biologically bizarre, and a symptom of sick
conditions or sick conditioning - like caging monkeys, or caging rats or
brainwashing humans with strange self-conflicting mythologies, and having
women try to drum male instincts out of boys.
Pastor Kutchie, Earthquack's nemesis - 05 Apr 2007 09:29 GMT
> Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
> creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.
>
> Start your healing here:  http://www.evilbible.com/

No, those are His Nuts.
Condemned and Stricken Flying Rat - 05 Apr 2007 10:17 GMT
> > Yes, unquestionably, debilitation of the human mind with mythic fantasy
> > creates many of "His Fruits", Tedi Haggard being a good example.
> >
> > Start your healing here:  http://www.evilbible.com/
>
> No, those are His Nuts.

Chunky can give "all praise to God" that he is collecting his welfoare
in the uSA and not the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6528425.stm
 
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