Mercy

Anger and Mercy

September 17, 2012

in Some Things to Think About

Over the weekend here in Sydney there was a small riot in protest of the outrageous amateur film posted on YouTube about the Prophet Mohammed, and a sermon on mercy in the small church I go to. While the priest did not make the connection with the riots, the link between anger and mercy occurred [...]

Tagged as: Empathy, Mercy, Muslims

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Triumph or Catastrophe?

January 28, 2012

in Some Things to Think About

I was driving back from doing the grocery shopping today, and happened to hear the last movement of Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, the Pathetique. What a sad, emotionally draining piece of music, with its evocation of the “dying of the light” at the end. Whenever I hear it, I remember the only time I ever heard [...]

Tagged as: Brokenness, Forgiveness, Mercy

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