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談Billy Graham葛理翰牧師 (1918-2018)。英文、華語、台語版《比利. 葛理翰與我》台南:全民台語聖經協會,2022;Billy Graham and Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well. CSS 《心靈雞湯》(英語:Chicken Soup for the Soul)叢書等事業

談Billy Graham葛理翰牧師 (1918-2018)。英文、華語、台語版《比利. 葛理翰與我》台南:全民台語聖經協會,2022;Billy Graham and Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well. CSS  《心靈雞湯》(英語:Chicken Soup for the Soul)叢書等事業   

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Billy Graham and Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well

Paperback – 18 3 月 2013

  • 出版者 ‏ : ‎ Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers (18 3 月 2013)

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Billy Graham and Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well Paperback – March 18, 2013.

《比利. 葛理翰與我》台南:全民台語聖經協會,2022






"I will be a friend to men of both parties, but I would never say that I was, even indicated that I was, for one or the other. I am for God. I don't think there's any hope for the world except in God."





Billy Graham's most notable quotes
Billy Graham was often called upon to sooth the nation in stressful times.


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葛理翰牧師英語:William Franklin Graham 或 Billy Graham,直譯作比利·(富蘭克林)·葛拉罕,1918年11月7日-2018年2月21日),生於美國北卡羅萊那州夏洛特,美國基督教福音派布道家,被按立為美南浸信會牧師,是第二次世界大戰以後福音派教會的代表人物之一。葛理翰從1949年開始在中產階級以及適當保守的新教徒中享有聲譽。他在各地開始舉行大型的戶內和戶外的宗教集會,並且他的講道也在廣播和電視台上播放, 其中有些講道到今天還在重播[2]。在他常達60年的電視布道生涯中,葛理翰主要通過主持每年的「葛理翰布道大會」而被人們知曉。他從1947年開始舉行這種布道大會,直到2005年終止並從電視布道節目退休。與此同時,從1950年到1954,葛理翰也在主持他非常流行的廣播節目抉擇時刻。 葛理翰反對種族隔離政策,並且他在踐行自己的宗教宗旨的同時,也幫助改變了基督教基要派和福音派的觀念,教導他們以一種理解的姿態去看待聖經和當代世俗觀念上的同異。
葛理翰經常擔任多位美國總統的顧問,並且他個人和多位美國總統德懷特·艾森豪以及理察·尼克森[3]關係甚為親密。從1953年開始,葛理翰堅持要把他主持的復興大會和布道大會融合起來。在他1957年在紐約市舉行的復興大會上,他邀請了當時非裔美國人民權運動領袖馬丁·路德·金前來布道。隨後在1960年,當馬丁·路德·金在一次示威集會被逮捕時,葛理翰還幫助他從監獄裡保釋出來。除此之外,葛理翰和另外一位電視布道家羅伯特·舒樂也是一生的至交。當時還是葛理翰說動羅伯特·舒樂開始做他自己的電視布道事工。
據葛理翰的同工表述,有超過三百二十萬人在葛理翰的布道大會上回應他的邀請,並 「接受主耶穌基督作他們生命中的救主」。據估計,到2008年為止,有多達二十二億的人通過廣播和電視節目的渠道聽過葛理翰的布道。葛理翰通過他的布道大會將福音傳給大量的聽眾,這些人的數目比基督教歷史上任何人親身傳授福音的數目都要多。
葛理翰曾多次登上蓋洛普名人列表,並在其20世紀名人列表中排名第7。葛理翰從1955年開始有55次登上該名人列表,超過世界上任何人登上該列表的次數[4]。美國宗教歷史學家Grant Wacker曾評價說截至1960年中,葛理翰已經成為「The Great Legitimator」。


William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelical Christianevangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally after 1949. He has been called one of the most influential preachers of the 20th century.[2] He held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons which were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast into the 21st century.[3] In his six decades of television, Graham hosted annual Billy Graham Crusades, which ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. He also hosted the popular radio show Hour of Decision from 1950 to 1954. He repudiated segregation and, in addition to his religious aims, helped shape the worldview of a huge number of people coming from different backgrounds leading them to find a relationship between the Bible and contemporary secular viewpoints. Graham preached to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings, including BMS World Mission and Global Mission. He also reached hundreds of millions more through television, video, film, and webcasts.[4]
Graham was a spiritual adviser to American presidents and provided spiritual counsel for every president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.[5] He was particularly close to Dwight D. EisenhowerLyndon B. Johnson (one of Graham's closest friends),[6] and Richard Nixon.[7] He insisted on racial integration for his revivals and crusades in 1953 and invited Martin Luther King Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when King was arrested in demonstrations. He was also lifelong friends with another televangelist, the founding pastor of the Crystal CathedralRobert H. Schuller, whom Graham talked into doing his own television ministry.[8]
Graham operated a variety of media and publishing outlets.[9]According to his staff, more than 3.2 million people have responded to the invitation at Billy Graham Crusades to "accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior". As of 2008, Graham's estimated lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion. Because of his crusades, Graham preached the gospel to more people in person than anyone in the history of Christianity.[9]
Graham was repeatedly on Gallup's list of most admired men and women. He appeared on the list 60 times since 1955, more than any other individual in the world.[10] Grant Wacker reports that by the mid-1960s, he had become the "Great Legitimator".[11]
The most important member of a consequential movement* died on February 21st at the age of 99* 指Civil rights movement Civil rights movement



Billy Graham was the most important American evangelical of the past century
Mr Graham held his first integrated religious rally in 1953
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心靈雞湯》(英語:Chicken Soup for the Soul)是由一系列書籍組成的一個書籍組的名稱,通常有具有靈感和激勵性的短篇故事和散文組成,該書的作者是傑克·坎菲爾馬克·漢森

《心靈雞湯》超過200種類別,有許多書籍都是針對特定的人群,如:母親雞湯、囚犯雞湯、祖父雞湯、祖母雞湯、孩子雞湯、父親雞湯。

歷史[編輯]

第一系列《心靈雞湯》印製和出版了數百萬份。[8]目前,全世界54種語言一億份書籍正在印製和出版。《心靈雞湯》少女系列超過14種,專門賣給美國加拿大英國澳大利亞的少女。

《心靈雞湯》還包括一系列的小製品小作品,包括賀卡掛曆禮包寵物食品服裝遊戲碟DVD、《聖經》。[9][10][11][12]

1999年,傑西卡·薩弗拉出版了《愛情心靈雞湯》。

書籍命名為《心靈雞湯》是為了治療家庭病人,培養他們健康的身體和良好的品質。[13]

從1993年到2008年,《心靈雞湯》由創始人傑克·坎菲爾馬克·漢森負責出版和發行。[14]

《心靈雞湯》開設了一個娛樂區,可供人們觀看家庭電影和視頻點播。[15]

而受《心靈雞湯》影響,一些勵志性或者啟發性文章也被成為「雞湯文」[16]


Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) 從難民到國務卿──歐布萊特回憶錄,“有力者和全能者:對美國、上帝和世界事務的思考”(2006 年)

 




The Washington Post published a profile of the new secretary of state reporting that her parents had been Jews who converted to Catholicism and created a fictional past to protect their children from the Nazis.

奧爾布賴特女士在她一生的大部分時間裡都隱藏著一層家庭秘密,她作為一位傑出的世界事務分析師和白宮國家安全顧問獲得了權力和名望。 在比爾克林頓總統的領導下,她成為該國駐聯合國代表(1993-97 年)和國務卿(1997-2001 年),使她成為當時美國政府歷史上最高級別的女性。nyt/google

Besides her 2003 memoir, Ms. Albright wrote “The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs” (2006), “Memo to the President-Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership” (2008), “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box” (2009), and “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948” (2012).
除了她 2003 年的回憶錄,奧爾布賴特女士還寫了“有力者和全能者:對美國、上帝和世界事務的思考”(2006 年)、“給當選總統的備忘錄:我們如何恢復美國的聲譽和領導力”(2008 年)、 “閱讀我的別針:外交官珠寶盒中的故事”(2009 年)和“布拉格冬天:1937-1948 年的紀念與戰爭的個人故事”(2012 年)。

Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018)

Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84

She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton’s policies.



Madeleine Albright sees fascism not as an ideology, but as a strategy for seizing and consolidatingnFuture


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What is fascism?
An interview with Madeleine Albright




  • Madam Secretary (2003) -- Albright's memoir, published after her retirement,


  • 從難民到國務卿──歐布萊特回憶錄
    Madam Secretary: A Memoir
    類別: 史地‧法律‧政治>政治軍事
    叢書系列:歷史與現場
    作者:麥德琳‧歐布萊特
    Madeleine Albright
    譯者:鍾玉玨
    出版社:時報文化
    出版日期:2004年


    「我的好友馬奎斯在《百年孤寂》(One Hundred of Solitude)中,描寫陷入無可逃避的生命循環當中的人。我們不也是如此?
    日升日落,四季輪替,命運之輪年復一年轉動,而軸心磨蝕,無可補救。人生在世,無法選擇要不要參與此一過程。
    然而,這並不意味我們的選擇都沒意義。我始終相信,人應該奮力成就一己所能的事情:運用個人獨具的天賦、全心全意、滿懷歡欣去承受與實踐。
    努力不保證會成功,但是努力本身卻是保持對生命的信念唯一的途徑。當大限來臨,我希望別人會說,歐布萊特盡力運用天賜的一切,努力榮耀家族、報效國家,堅定自由民主的立場,為年長女性揚眉吐氣,也讓年輕女子勇於表達自我。」 ──Madam Secretary  by 歐布萊特Madeleine Albright


    歐布萊特是美國第六十四任國務卿,更是美國歷史上位階最高的女性政治人物,柯林頓政府八年期間,從中東和平會談到北約人道介入科索沃戰爭,無役不與。他是原 籍捷克的猶太人,祖父母死於納粹集中營,為了逃離希特勒與共黨的迫害,於十一歲來到新大陸美國;能說流利的英、法、捷克、塞維亞-斯洛伐克語的她,擺脫難 民身分的困頓,在外交場域中迭有建樹,堪稱現代女性成功的典範。書中除了自剖其曲折坎坷、終至位極人臣的生涯,還生動描繪哈維爾、阿拉法特、夏隆、納堂雅 胡、胡笙國王、普丁、米洛塞維奇、金正日等國際政治首腦其人其事,當然更少不了風雨不斷的柯林頓夫婦。
    The Book


    Madam Secretary
    by Madeleine Albright
    "It was a quarter to ten. I was sipping coffee, but by then my body was manufacturing its own caffeine. I still couldn't allow myself to believe. Finally, at 9:47, the call came. 'I want you to be my Secretary of State.' These are his first words. I finally believed it."
    For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Madeleine Albright was an active participant in the most dramatic events of recent times—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. Now, in an outspoken memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence.
    The story begins with Albright's childhood as a Czechoslovak refugee, whose family first fled Hitler, then the Communists. Arriving in the United States at the age of eleven, she grew up to be a passionate advocate of civil and women's rights and followed a zigzag path to a career that ultimately placed her in the upper stratosphere of diplomacy and policy-making in her adopted country. She became the first woman to serve as America's secretary of state and one of the most admired individuals of our era.
    Refreshingly candid, Madam Secretary brings to life the world leaders Albright dealt with face-to-face in her years of service and the battles she fought to prove her worth in a male-dominated arena. There are intriguing portraits of such leading figures as Vaclav Havel, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, King Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Slobodan Milosevic, and North Korea's mysterious Kim Jong-Il, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Jesse Helms.
    Besides her encounters with the famous and powerful, we get to know Albright the private woman: her life raising three daughters, the painful breakup of her marriage to the scion of one of America's leading newspapers families, and the discovery late in life of her Jewish ancestry and that her grandparents had died in Nazi concentration camps.
    Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record. It is a tapestry both intimate and panoramic, a rich memoir destined to become a twenty-first century classic.


    Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018)



    2022年3月23日 星期三

    Pasha Lee (1988~2022) 33歲



    Pavlo 'Pasha' Romanovych Lee.....


    Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer ...
    https://www.economist.com › ... › Mar 19th 2022 edition


    5 days ago — The star in a bulletproof vest. Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer. He was killed near the bridge at Irpin on March 6th, ...




    When Pasha Lee’s body was found it emerged that he had taken off his bulletproof vest to give it to a child he was carrying. Read his obituary: https://econ.st/3qqX0jh
    可能是 2 個人和顯示的文字是「 Obituary Pasha Lee was killed near Irpin bridge in Ukraine, aged 33 TPe 」的圖像
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    2022年3月19日 星期六

    克里契科(Vitali Klitschko)、澤倫斯基 (陳思平、Wikipedia)

     

    維塔利·克利奇科
    Віта́лій Кличко́
    2014-09-12 - Vitali Klitschko - 9019 (cropped).jpg
    Official portrait, 2014

    維塔利·弗拉基米羅維奇·克利奇科 (烏克蘭語Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́,1971年7月19日),烏克蘭職業拳擊手,政治人物。現為烏克蘭爭取改革民主同盟領導人,烏克蘭最高拉達議員。2014年6月,擔任基輔市長



    轉貼: 目前烏克蘭戰事依舊難解難分,為了避免夜長夢多,俄軍已經集結,快要進入最後總攻,今天來聊一下比較少人提到的事。
    關於澤倫斯基,這位原本沒人看好的烏克蘭總統,在關鍵時刻臨危不亂挺身而出,團結起全境內反抗勢力,話雖不多但鏗鏘有力,表情冷靜時發號施令,情緒激昂時鼓舞人心,落寞哀傷時求取同情,在這場危機之中,發揮了扭轉戰情並定錨的功效,也是至今烏克蘭並沒有迅速潰敗,並能引發西方世界不斷援助的主因,關於他,我想就不用再多介紹,今天我想聊聊另一個人,因為值得台灣人深思並借鏡。
    這個重要人物,其實並不亞於澤倫斯基這位總統,他~就是首都基輔市長,也是前世界重量級拳王-克里契科(Vitali Klitschko)。
    這位現年50歲,外號「鐵拳博士」,父親可是前蘇聯的少將,從小接受完整的教育,並精通多國語言,能在鏡頭前流利對談,過去曾是兩屆WBC重量級拳王,並獲頒世界拳擊理事會(WBC)的「2011年度最佳拳手」,2006年到2015年期間,他與弟弟完全主宰了重量級賽場,這段時間也是被拳迷津津樂道的「Klitschko時代」,2014年克里米亞戰爭後,他放下拳套退役,出來競選並當選首都基輔市長。
    以下,我們就來看看一國之首都市長,在國之大難時,面對敵人入侵,是怎麼做的,時間先回到開戰前。
    在開戰前,正好是北京冬奧時候,當時普丁已經藉由與白俄羅斯共同演習為由,陳重兵於邊境,美國總統拜登與國安顧問蘇利文不斷警告普丁很有可能在冬奧期間入侵烏克蘭,這位曾與澤倫斯基一起競爭總統的首都市長,在戰爭尚未爆發前,並沒有上電視指責澤倫斯基「把國家搞成這樣」、「不負責任」,或是拿不出證據就批評總統「身旁的都貪污」,又或者撥冷水說「肯定守不住」,或不斷要總統「保證」普丁不會入侵。
    身為市長的他,不是吹牛說「讓我來指揮也不會太差」,或是搔著頭,兩手一攤說「計畫做不下去」,或是發明一堆民眾看不懂的什麼「冷區熱區殲滅圍堵」,又或者神隱推給姍姍來遲的副市長。
    這一位也曾競選總統的首都市長,不只沒有落井下石,不只沒有大喊「烏俄一家親」,然後私下宴請俄羅斯高層訪問團,他也沒有讓惜命命的妻子,不斷計較幾個月前,因為不滿典禮出場時間安排,讓丈夫在冷風站了超過十分鐘。
    相反的~他反而積極上電視不斷呼籲民眾,要正視基輔此刻受到俄羅斯嚴重威脅,請開始提前儲備物資與藥物。
    他在面臨大難來臨前,並沒有手忙腳亂,而是踏踏實實的拿出準備已久的撤離部分人口計畫,並開始動起來,清查基輔市內從前蘇聯時期留下的防空洞,把這4500個能做為市民保護的雙層結構設施的防空洞,透過市政府系統公布給市民知道,讓民眾知道面對危難時,該往哪裡去。
    接著,他開始指揮轄下的警力加強與軍隊之間的協調與合作,並著手納入民眾力量,加固關鍵的基礎設施,包括電力、天然氣以及水源,記者訪問他時,他冷靜的在鏡頭前說:「想要和平,就得做好戰爭的準備」 而不是說「拳頭沒普丁大,所以不要跟他大小聲。」
    而在開戰初期後,面對戰事不順,邊境城市被轟炸,人民流離失所喪失性命,他並沒有怒嗆指揮官「死800人跟普丁沒有關係,但跟你澤倫斯基有關。」,又或者說「再搞我的話, 撤退百姓我就給你慢兩天。」
    相反的~他在鏡頭前很平靜地說:「民眾都已經做好要作為士兵保家衛國的準備,而我做為一名曾服役的軍人與士官,已準備好拿起武器保衛國家抵禦俄軍入侵,我與弟弟早已加入烏克蘭後備軍,隨時做好準備要為烏克蘭而戰。」
    他說:「我沒有其他選擇,我必須這麼做。我相信烏克蘭,我相信我的國家,我相信我的人民,我們會奮戰到底。」,而他也真的這麼做,讓幾波想進城暗殺總統的俄國特務栽跟斗,一波波被消滅殆盡,讓戰時指揮官能全心全意的領導全國人民。
    各位看倌們,開戰已經17日,烏克蘭已經打破了普丁三日亡烏的計畫,甚至將普丁拖入泥淖的深淵,世人都看見了這位首都市長在這段時間的表現,也正是因為他沉著不帶情緒,不帶私人恩怨的大器,猶如駐紮十萬大軍似的,穩定住基輔這近三百萬人心,上下一心攢成一條粗麻繩,穩穩地拽住一國之首都安危,而首都為國之重心,在這逆風中揚起這面大旗,而他就是這位旗手。
    烏克蘭基輔的遭遇,其實也值得身處戰爭威脅的台灣人深思,台灣的首都,是不是也需要一位這樣百折不撓的硬漢,尤其在對岸搓手熱眼時刻,台北市需要什麼樣的市長,是選一個凡事媽寶拱手開門相讓的軟骨頭,還是選出一個經歷過大風大浪人格成熟的硬漢,2022年答案就揭曉。
    出處:粘迪舜




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