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This movie has been out for some time, but I recently saw it and want to recommend it here. I have for some reason been avoiding it, thinking it would be an hurtful experience which good movies often can be. It is powerful, and creates the feelings I am sure the director wanted. This one [...]

Amoz Oz was recently in Gothenburg (where I live) promoting his newest book “Rhyming life and death”. It made me pick up a copy of  Amoz Oz`s “how to cure a fanatic”. If you haven’t read it, it is a must read (and short read) for anyone interested in finding common ground with people you [...]

I saw a documentary about Amos Oz tonight. You can watch it here. He says the following towards the end of the movie; “we live now in a world where people work harder than they should be working in order to make more money than they really need, in order to buy things they don’t [...]

I read threw the gospel of Mathew the other day and again it struck me how odd it is that we have made Judas into this horrible man. If you look carefully Peter and the other disciples betrayed Jesus in even bigger ways than what Judas did. Judas actually regretted what he did and went [...]

“We in Norway have won the Lottery both in the morning and evening. We are born in a country with no epidemics, without hunger, without any crises, with good neighbors and with the fish in the sea. And on top of it all, we found oil.” Jan Egeland critizizing Norwegians who complain about high gas [...]

Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York times writes the following from a recent visit to the holy land. He draws up two contrasts with the bad and ugly on one side; “It is here in the Palestinian territories that you see the worst side of Israel: Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians (almost one-third [...]

I am not happy when people ask, “How is the situation for Christians?” Those who kill don’t kill only Christians. They kill Muslims as well—the situation is the same for both …. The Christian house is next to the Muslim house. Each has his own religion, each defends his own home, each defends his religion. [...]

I was talking to christian friend a few weeks back about the war between libanon and Israel. Should I rather say the war between Israel and Hizbollah. He expressed great distress and anger at this muslim nation that again went to war against Gods people Israel. The sad thing is that all of libanon and [...]