Keith Howard

Category: Reflections

  • Redemption

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    Seeing I seem to be on a Johnny Cash theme today I began to reflect upon the power of stories of redemption. The video Cash did with U2 is one story. This comment below the YouTube version spoke again of the power of testimony to encourage and redeem. dude I have watched this vid so…

  • Johnny Cash “Hurt”

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    Just happened across the Youtube video of Johnny Cash singing the Nine Inch Nails tune “Hurt.” Felt very much like a Lenten meditation.

  • Changing to a wide angle lens

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    Even critical, world changing events can feel remote when viewed on the television screen. However, when friends or family may be involved, emotional intensity shifts dramatically. While I have been following, in a general way, the events in Egypt I have noticed a recent increase in my attention. Part of it – and perhaps this…

  • A Cyborg anthropologist and Distracted Driving

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    As often happens, events link. Increased application, by the police, of British Columbia’s Distracted Driving law has drawn media coverage. Even though 32,000 tickets were handed out last year it will now be even tougher to talk, hands-on, on a cell phone, apply makeup, text, game or program the GPS while driving.  According to RCMP…

  • Faith of teenagers is a reflection

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    I found the latest edition of the e-newsletter from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership interesting for a couple of reasons. One was a quote from a Kenda Creasy Dean in Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church (Oxford University Press, 2010). She is describing an alternate faith embraced by many…