Below please find information from Lynn Hasley concerning Hurricane Katrina. She and Jeff and the rest of the staff have been working hard on plans for our...
Jack Harnish
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Sep 2, 2005 9:16 pm
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"A YEAR OF DEADLY WATERS" When we are "up north" we become "Presbyterians-for-a-day". We usually worship at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Beulah which...
Jack Harnish
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Sep 5, 2005 12:23 pm
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American Public MediaI am taking the liberty of forwarding information on this week's broadcast of "Speaking of Faith". Given the ongoing discussion about...
Jack Harnish
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Sep 9, 2005 11:59 am
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THE TIME TO BUILD THE ARK Calling it a "blame game" and saying we shouldn't play is hardly fair. There is a simple matter of responsibility and as history has...
Jack Harnish
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Sep 12, 2005 12:55 pm
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I love to tell the story of the first time a group of United Methodists from America made their way through the Baltics following the fall of the Soviet Union....
Jack Harnish
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Sep 20, 2005 2:56 am
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My friend Jim Jackson is pastor of Chapelwood United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. I haven't been in touch with Jim in the past week but I've been...
Jack Harnish
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Sep 26, 2005 11:38 am
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Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat" is a must for anyone who wants a glimpse of the world as it is today. In every way, the world is getting flatter...
Jack Harnish
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Oct 4, 2005 9:13 am
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I love autumn. It is my favorite time of year. Something about the crisp fall air and the first day it falls to 50 degrees (as it did this week); waking up...
Jack Harnish
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Oct 10, 2005 12:34 am
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Arbon Dennis must have been an incredible person. At the age of 100 he was still keeping up with everyone who had been in his Sunday School Classes over the...
Jack Harnish
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Oct 17, 2005 10:44 am
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God in the Hurricane It would be silly to try to explore a topic like that in a brief Monday memo...just about as silly as some of the things I hear people...
Jack Harnish
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Oct 24, 2005 11:50 am
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It must be hard for our suburban kids to comprehend. I mean, who rides a bus anyway? Only pre-drivers' license kids when their moms aren't there to ferry...
Jack Harnish
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Nov 1, 2005 2:26 am
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Maybe you've seen the ads on television. The ads tell the world who we are, or at least who we desire to be. Produced by United Methodist Communications, the...
Jack Harnish
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Nov 14, 2005 12:13 pm
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Garrison Keillor wakes me up at 2:02am every morning. Well, not exactly. Every morning when I click into my e-mail I find a 2:00am memo from Keillor's "The...
Jack Harnish
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Nov 21, 2005 11:44 am
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American Public MediaI am taking the liberty of forwarding this memo about this week's edition of "Speaking of Faith". It features Don Saliers, United...
Jack Harnish
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Nov 24, 2005 4:19 pm
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"Half Past Nineteen Hundred" That's the title of a chapter in a book of Elton Trueblood, written in 1950, and entitled "Signs of Hope in a Century of Despair"....
Jack Harnish
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Nov 28, 2005 2:51 am
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"Mysterium Tremendum" ...that's what they call it in Latin--the "tremendous mystery". Theologians call it "The Idea of the Holy". You can call it wonder,...
Jack Harnish
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Dec 5, 2005 1:02 pm
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I am taking the liberty of passing on information on a special program. United Methodist Committee on Relief participates with Church World Service in our...
Jack Harnish
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Dec 9, 2005 9:13 pm
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With the opening of "Narnia" there is a flurry of reflection about the life and work of C.S. Lewis. I have little to add, only the voice of one who fell in...
Jack Harnish
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Dec 12, 2005 2:31 pm
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One of my friends from our Nashville days, Al Tompkins, writes an e-mail column for journalists from the Poynter Institute. His wife Sidney is a United...
Jack Harnish
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Dec 19, 2005 1:27 pm
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My successor at First Church Ann Arbor, Doug Paterson, reports on Fred Whan, a man in Kingston, Ontario, who, after burning his fish stick dinner, found the...
Jack Harnish
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Dec 26, 2005 2:20 pm
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It's been in the news, but New Year's Eve came and went and I hardly noticed, except for one little slip-up on Fox TV. It seems that on New Year's Eve...
Jack Harnish
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Jan 2, 2006 2:23 pm
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Over 30 years ago Bishop Hazen Warner wrote a book called "No Saints Suddenly". Interesting title, and of course, it's true...there are no short-cuts to true...
Jack Harnish
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Jan 9, 2006 1:21 pm
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... From: Jack Harnish To: fumcbirmingham-MondayMemo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:57 AM Subject: So What Would It Be Like? First, a...
Jack Harnish
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Jan 16, 2006 8:53 pm
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I grew up in the mountains north of Pittsburgh and the only teams I ever knew anything about were the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Steelers! Well, there is no...
Jack Harnish
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Jan 23, 2006 6:42 pm
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This week the world comes to Woodward Avenue. Here come the Steelers and the Seahawks and all their towel-waving fans. Here comes the media hoopla, the TV...
Jack Harnish
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Jan 30, 2006 1:37 pm
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On Friday night, Dave and Sue Chrostek took this picture of the statue "Spirit of Detroit" decked out in his Super Bowl apparel. As they took the picture they...
Jack Harnish
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Feb 6, 2006 12:47 pm
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You've seen those zippy motivational posters available in every book store and airplane advertising magazine--all those great sayings which are meant to...
Jack Harnish
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Feb 13, 2006 1:21 am
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September 18, 1929 Zion's Herald The Methodist-related magazine "Zion's Herald" runs a column called "...Now & Then". It includes quotations from previous...
Jack Harnish
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Feb 20, 2006 1:02 pm
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One of my favorite writers is the late Henri Nouwen. His book "With Open Hands" is my favorite book on prayer,, which makes me think I will reread it this...
Jack Harnish
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Feb 27, 2006 12:31 pm
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There is always more to say, I suppose, on any given subject and it's certainly true of yesterday's sermon. I have a file full of materials collected from...
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