Understanding Religions: A Book Club

Here is the upcoming schedule for the Understanding Religions Book Club:

Feb. 28 - I Like Being Catholic: Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories by Michael Leach and Therese Bourchard

Mar. 18 - Rumspringa - To Be Or Not To Be Amish by Tom Shactman

Apr. 17 - First You Shave Your Head by Geri Larkin (Buddhism)

All meetings start at 7:00 PM in the Upper Level of the Library. Please come with your copy of the book and your thoughts, reflections, and questions about the book and the particular religion.

You can join us for one or all of the books. Please reserve your spot by calling 248-706-4211.

WWI - The Blog

When a grandson pairs his grandfather's World War I correspondence with the power of a today's technology (blogging and the Internet), letters home take on a whole new meaning.

http://wwar1.blogspot.com/

Ancient Rome Comes To Life

The Virtual Museum of the Ancient Via Flaminia was recently launched. The website virutally reconstructs people and places that existed along the bustling via Flaminia, a heavily used thoroughfare in ancient Rome.

http://www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it/flaminia/

It's, like, totally pop culture....

Popular culture drives the overall culture of the U.S., for better or for worse. While many middle school and high school age students easily understand it, it is more difficult for foreign students and in the case of OLS, for seminarians to understand pop culture fully.

So whether you are a parent seeking to understand slang, or a student trying to understand why people quote the movie "Office Space", start here:

A Guide to Internet Slang - http://www.safesurfingkids.com/chat_room_internet_acronyms.htm

The Top 100 Movies of All Time (as featured in Time Magazine) - http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html

Billboard 200 - The top 200 music albums this week - http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=The+Billboard+200

National Public Radio Popular Culture Homepage - http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1048

TMZ (Popular Media) - http://www.tmz.com/

Technorati (Imagine blogs, news stories, and pop culture all colliding...you'd have this website) - http://www.technorati.com/

Mashable - Covering the pop culture that drives the World Wide Web - http://mashable.com/

David Crumm - January 10 - 7:00PM

Thursday, January 10 - AN EVENING WITH DAVID CRUMM - 7:00 PM
Lake Level - Adam Cardinal Maida Alumni Library

Join us for a presentation with David Crumm, former Religion Writer for the Detroit Free Press and founder of http://www.readthespirit.com/. How will we communicate with one another about the centrality of faith in our lives in this new millennium? David has created a new multimedia tool to communicate the importance of faith in the daily lives of people around the world. http://www.readthespirit.com/ links writers, filmmakers and spiritual voices around the globe. David will discuss the challenges we all face as well as the good news of this exciting era in which we are called to proclaim the enduring truths of faith.

This event is free and open to the public. Please join us!