Oh yeah, that reminds me this question is for Dave mainly...are you aware of a lot of religious/Judeo-Christian faiths that encourage it’s churchgoers to keep journals? I have heard from my grandparents (who are Seventh Day Adventists) that they are encouraged to do this, so I’m wondering if this is true for other faiths?
That also reminds me, I need to FReepmail you back at some point.
I don’t know any Seventh-day Adventists who are encouraged to keep journals. Never heard of such a thing.
And...I just broke off a long term relationship and I’m sooo not ready for Christmas. sniff
Alot of Missionary Baptist do it. :)
I always find it strange that so many companies including mine feel that you have to send cards saying Seasons Greetings instead of Christmas and then I will an email from Egypt, Indonesia or even Iran from agents who are obviously Muslim wishing us a Merry Christmas. I suppose though is OK for them to wish us it but form dictates that unless we know they or some of their employees celebrate Christmas we should not.
One thing I found interesting over the years is to find out though not Christian countries but many countries nowadays celebrate a secular form of Christmas with Father Christmas, snow men etc purely of course for commercial reasons. China is one of them I am told that Shanghai at this time of year will be full of Christmas themes, DVDs, CDs etc and decorations everywhere. I am also told that the Chinese themselves that can afford are also celebrating it with giving gifts and having a special meal for friends and family and many companies with western connections give their employees time off work.
I know our joint venture company in China often expects to have the English religious holidays as well as their traditional Chinese ones.
When I was in college, I was a member of several evangelical churches, and some of them encouraged people to make journals of their devotional times. The idea was that if we just read the Bible without writing anything, we'd be more likely to read without thinking a great deal. If we took the time to make notes about the passages that we read and how those passages impacted us, we'd be more likely to learn and absorb the meanings. I have mixed feelings about whether the whole idea was all that effective, but I took some notes sometimes. I think I still have some of those notes packed in a box somewhere.
Bill