Sydney – A church in Australia has banned members from attending tai chi chuan classes, saying the supposedly health-giving Chinese martial art is incompatible with Christianity. ‘Anybody that focuses in on the exercise has the wrong message,’ Wynyard Baptist Church Pastor Viv Morse said Thursday, noting that tai chi had links with Buddhism. ‘We have a right [...]
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May 31st, 2010
“The Karate Kid” 2010–Culture Clash | impostor syndrome
My wife Janet and I attended the premiere of the remake of “The Karate Kid” in Chicago May 26th. As we all know, the original film was set in Southern California with a Japanese maintenance man Mr. Miyagi, immortalized by the late Pat Morita teaching karate to the new kid in town New Jersey transplant [...]
February 17th, 2010
Paul Newman and I | impostor syndrome
In a TV interview I heard Paul Newman say, “I have always had this fear or feeling that one day, someone was going to push through the crowd, grab me by the arm and tell me, ‘It’s over. It was all a mistake. You are coming back to paint houses…’” When he said that, I [...]
