China Roars, but at what cost

Below is an excellent article by the New York Times on the problem of pollution in China.

As train of "progress" continues to chug on, one must ask the question "but at what price". Let's hope it is not at the expense of our future generations.

Perhaps the following quote superbly articulated by Tolkien, through the mouth of Gandalf can instruct us in the manner of living with regards to our environmental responsibility:

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."

Book Stocktake

Realized that my bookshelf is burdgeoning and the number of books that I've YET to read is ever-increasing. A quick stock-take of the books that I have NOT read or have only partially read are as follows:

NOT READ
- Complete Works of HR Rookmaaker (6 Volumes)
- Defense of the Faith (Cornelius Van Til)
- The One, The Three, The Many (Colin Gunton)
- The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- Crimes and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- From the Shadows (Robert Gates)
- To Change China (Jonathan Spence)
- Paradise Lost (John Milton)
- The Next Christendom (Philip Jenkins) - still in shrink-wrapped condition after three months!
- Conscientious Objections (Neil Postman)

Partially read
- God, Revelation and Authority (Carl FH Henry) - 6 volumes
- Christianity and Western Thought (Colin Brown) - 2 volumes
- The Victory of Reason (Rodney Stark)
- Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing (Soren Kierkegaard)
- The Technological Society, Propaganda, Reason for Being, The Humiliation of the Word, The Technological Bluff (all by Jacques Ellul)
- Art in Action (Nicholas Wolterstorff)
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
- Decline of the West (Oswald Spengler)
- The Story of Philosophy (Will Durant)
- Death of Death in the Death of Christ (John Owen)
- L'abri (Edith Schaeffer)
- Wild Swans (Jung Chan)

South Koreans hostage crisis (update)

Brings tears to my eyes just hearing the news that one of the woman, Lee Jee-Young, gave up her opportunity to be freed so as to allow another woman to go. This is Christian self-sacrificial love at its best. May God move the hearts of their captors to see this.

Story of Francis and Edith Schaeffer

A beautiful love story that chronicles some of the early lives of Francis and Edith Schaeffer... do check out Fran's first words to Edith when the couple first met at church group=)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7468763482658772507