When I talk to Christian friends about interfaith work, sometimes they complain that moderate Muslims are not speaking out enough against Islamic militancy. I’m not sure how they would know, since few have Muslim friends. And it bothers me that few of the Christian complainers speak out very loudly against extremists who have hijacked their [...]
I noticed in my hometown paper that I have been part of a recent consumer trend: increasing demand for outdated equipment, like wind-up watches, and film cameras. I’m trendy, all right, guilty on both counts! If you happen to be fond of excellently made but technologically obsolete cameras you may be interested in the following [...]
If you research the word, “interfaith”, on the Internet you will discover that since Nine Eleven citizens from many nations have organized to promote interreligious understanding and peace. The Faith Club, published by Free Press, is one example of this groundswell of a peacemaking activity. Ranya Idlibyl, a Muslim, Suzanne Oliver, an Episcopalian Christian, and [...]
In this post I begin a CyberKen long term project of providing communities of faith a place to share with the world what they cherish about their particular way of worshiping and serving God. I have begun very close to home, with a church where I was privileged to serve as pastor, Hanover Street Presbyterian [...]
Having joined the Interfaith Youth Core leadership social network, Bridge-Builders, and having read the initial chapter of the IFYC’s Interfaith Leader’s Toolkit (a workbook), I’ve decided to share here my story of how I came to be committed to religious pluralism. Religious pluralism–I quote here from the workbook– "describes a community where different individuals or [...]
Thanks to a CyberKen follower’s comment I was made aware that readers with color blindness may have difficulty with at least some of the posts here. An article in About.com entitled, “Are Your Web Pages Color Sensitive?” explains that most of the problems regarding color blindness relate to distinguishing red from green. The article gives [...]
A neighbor gave me a good old Minolta manual focus camera a while ago (an SRT 101), so I decided to put a couple of rolls through it, and was pleased with the outcome. Then, since I already had a collection of good Nikon lenses, I decided to buy a Nikon F3, which was produced [...]
Beginning digital photographers are likely to start with “point and shoot” cameras which do everything for you: focus automatically, expose automatically. Some of these cameras have rather low resolution capabilities. My first was a 2 megapixel Fuji. Nevertheless, even with simple and inexpensive cameras like that you can take some terrific photos if you are [...]
EXIF stands for “Exchageable Image File Format”. EXIF information is embedded in the code of photos taken by most digital cameras. If a Flickr member has allowed “More Properties” to show in his/her photo stream, then viewers can see EXIF information by clicking on “More Properties” under “Additional Information”, to the right of each photo. [...]
When you find a blog that you like a lot you might want to set up an RSS (really simple syndication) feed from that blog to your internet browser (for instance, Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox). Once you have an RSS feed set up, whenever a new post is made to that blog, you will [...]
