Beware the Titles of "Best of 2007" Top 10 Lists
Something interesting I noticed while perusing some of the mandatory year-end Top 10 lists.
Beware of titles.
For example, Time Magazine's web site posted its Top 10 Religion Stories of 2007. Included in the list were stories such as Mother Teresa's personal letters that may have revealed that she could not sense God for the last half-century, the homosexual controversy in the Episcopal church, and the hot-selling books about atheism.
I don't know, I guess those might be "Religion Stories" per se, but for me, something like Yahoo's Top 10 Inspirational Stories of 2007, which included stories about the One Lap-Top Per Child Project, Ishmael Beah's memoir "A Long Way Gone," the $100 million anonymous donation to Erie, PA, and Everson Walls donating his kidney to former Dallas Cowboys teammate Ron Springs says "Religion" to me a lot more powerfully than the overt stories about "Religion."
I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the "Religion" to which I subscribe.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
Beware of titles.
For example, Time Magazine's web site posted its Top 10 Religion Stories of 2007. Included in the list were stories such as Mother Teresa's personal letters that may have revealed that she could not sense God for the last half-century, the homosexual controversy in the Episcopal church, and the hot-selling books about atheism.
I don't know, I guess those might be "Religion Stories" per se, but for me, something like Yahoo's Top 10 Inspirational Stories of 2007, which included stories about the One Lap-Top Per Child Project, Ishmael Beah's memoir "A Long Way Gone," the $100 million anonymous donation to Erie, PA, and Everson Walls donating his kidney to former Dallas Cowboys teammate Ron Springs says "Religion" to me a lot more powerfully than the overt stories about "Religion."
I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the "Religion" to which I subscribe.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
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