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| 31 December 2003 |
| 1. ACTON COMMENTARY |
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“The Good Samaritan: Model of Effective Compassion”
by Jordan Ballor
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to often our efforts to embody compassion are thwarted by
various complexities and distractions. Jordan Ballor
observes that Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan gives us
an excellent example of how to make charity effective. He
writes that the Good Samaritan “didn’t treat his fellow man
like a problem, but rather as a human being, engaging him as
a person. The Good Samaritan didn’t simply toss the robbery
victim some money and proceed blithely on his way. Instead,
he did the much more ‘uncomfortable’ task of providing for
the person’s needs as if they were his own.” |
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Father Sirico is quoted regarding confiscatory
levels of taxation in the Christian Science Monitor on
Dec. 24 in the story,
“Inequity: Is it a sin?” |
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| 3. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WEB |
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Christian History, Spring 2003
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This entire issue of Christian History
is devoted to the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. The contributors
examine the role of Tolkien's faith against his own secular
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“The Lost Tools
of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers
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Dorothy Sayers, a member of the Inklings (along
with J.R.R. Tolkien), presented this lecture in 1947. In it, she
made a powerful argument for a return to the educational model
of the Trivium from the Middle Ages: grammar, dialectic, and
rhetoric. |
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| 4. THIS WEEK AT THE ACTON BOOK SHOPPE |
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| 5. IN THE LIBERAL TRADITION |
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973)
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“You can make the Ring into an allegory of our
own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that
waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.” |
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