The Big Lie: How the truth changes us

September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Category: 2009 September - Life Changes 

by Peter Clothier

I had just lost my job, the third in a multi-year succession of academic positions with increasing status and responsibility from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. To be utterly honest, I had been kicked out, as I had been from my two previous jobs. I had refused to conform to academic standards and expectations.

My chief sin was that I had published poetry rather than scholarly articles.

Music review: ‘Translucent’ – Solo instrumental piano CD by Roth Herrlinger

June 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Category: Men and Mission, Reviews 

by Wayne Lee

Translucent by Roth Herrlinger“When I sit at the piano, I open up to what will come through, and let inspiration lead as I lose myself in the music.” So says Roth Herrlinger, who has just released his first solo instrumental piano CD, “Translucent.”

The sincerity of his statement speaks volumes on the simplicity, authenticity and penetrating connectedness of Herrlinger’s music.