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Date: 02 September 2003 13:13:04
I've just been chatting with a colleague who attends the church we used to go to. It's been a few weeks since we were in church. I imagine that we'll be going next Sunday. Perhaps we need to approach it differently. Be unperturbed, for instance, if we arrive late.
Another disquieting dream - in the basement of a building, which I knew was going to be flooded with water - but we weren't, as I feared, caught by the inrush.
Listened to the Rattle conducting his new band at the Proms on the radio. They did pretty well ...
I've just started reading a book called "Emotional Intelligence", by Daniel Goleman. Daughter's school were saying that the ideas which this author describes form the basis of some of the new teaching methods which they are bringing in. Having read just the introduction, I am struck that he proposes an approach to character-building which is entirely based upon science, and makes no reference whatever to religion. This being, not surprisingly, in total contrast to what Scripture Union's "Encounter with God" was saying this morning, that the Christian is aware of the depths to which humans can descend, and sees the only hope in redemption through what Jesus did for us on the Cross. Can the scientists map out for us a way to stability and happiness through understanding and education alone?