Are you looking for humorous stories or anecdotes? Are you fond of witty repartees? What about inspirational or informational articles? They're all here. My Facebook Notes is a collection of posts I made using the Notes feature of Facebook, which has been discontinued. To preserve these posts, they have been compiled here along with a few posts I made on my timeline. I hope you enjoy them.

In May 6, 1944, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 760 kilometers (470 miles) from the Cabo Verde Islands, a duel between a u-boat and a destroyer escort occurred. This story is a retelling of that event, using information from after action reports and other sources. It is a story of brave men fighting each other for their country and for their comrades.

There are times when God's blessings seem so far away that people go into despair. Let me share with you my personal story about how obeying God and having faith brought me and my family His promise of a shower of blessings.

Are you hypertensive? If the answer is yes, here's a medication-free method for bringing your blood pressure down. Just sit down and breathe. That's right, just breathe. In the pages of this book, you'll find a technique that I've been using to control my blood pressure that has worked and has been working for several years. Find out how it works and how to do it right here.

Theology and Power brings together international Catholic scholars for a renewed, practical, and theoretical exploration of power and its (ab)uses. Special attention is given to both the sexual abuse crisis, and religion and politics.

A study of the history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus.Our ongoing fascination with alternative Christianities is on display every time a never-before-seen gospel text is revealed, an archaeological discovery about Jesus makes front-page news, or anew work of fiction challenges the very foundations of the church. Now, in a timely corrective to this trend, renowned church historian Al...

In the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third World but in Canada, as well.Baum argues for a new ecumenism, permitt...

This Very Short Introduction to Christian ethics introduces the topic by examining its sources and historical basis. D. Stephen Long presents a discussion of the relationship between Christian ethics, modern, and postmodern ethics, and explores practical issues including sex, money, and power. Long recognises the inherent difficulties in bringing together 'Christian' and 'ethics' but argues that this is an important task for both the Christian faith and for ethics. Arguing that Ch...

Todays Catholic Church faces a major decline, and a dramatic renewal is needed to facilitate positive change.In Wake Up, Lazarus! author Pierre Hegy documents the most important issues facing modern Catholicism and presents a convincing argument for renewal in the Catholic Church.Wake Up, Lazarus! examines three general factors that contribute to the spiritual decline of all mainline churches and three factors that are special to the Catholic Church. Hegy ...

Joseph Ratzinger rates relativism as the greatest challenge of the Church today. What he describes is not a new phenomenon but his theology highlights its origins and magnitude. Stanley Hauerwas fights the same battle on the Protestant side. This book attempts to discover and streamline their deliberations, showing their meeting points and where they differ, and remedies they offer to combat the crisis. It seeks to argue out the best response to relativism that can most appropriately benef...

· For people whose eyes glaze over when questions of salvation/redemption/atonement come up· Written by a theologian, but with a lay audience in mindEven theologians have had different ideas about the theology of atonement; how are the rest of supposed to understand it? This book is a good place to start. Crysdale, whose background in both psychology and theology gives her a unique perspective, presents an overview of the history of the theology of atonement, addressing cle...

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of all that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what "culture" itself means and what dialogue entails. To that end, cultural anthropologist Father Gerald Arbuckle gives us this im...