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Kari Andersen

Kari Andersen

I am a former middle school teacher of English and Social Studies. Now I am a work at home mom who LOVES to read great fiction and also any empowering books about women and business.

My favorite author is my good friend, Jane Porter. Her books are powerful and dig deep into a woman's soul and yet they are fun and make you laugh until... more »
  • Gresham, OR, USA
  • member since January 25 2008

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  • Pastor David Opio

    Pastor David Opio says

    Hi Kari, do you know any one that would donate used PA/Music Equipment to my church? I don't really mind the size and the number what matters is that it is in working condition and can enhance our worship and outdoor ministry activities.

    We have tried to acquire some on our own but things seem not to be working out well right now. In a country with over 40% living on less than a dollar a day, its just not easy to raise enough funds for this.

    Please in case you know of someone, church or organization that can help us, do let me know. my e-mail address is cdavidopio@yahoo.com

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Pastor David Opio

    Pastor David Opio says

    Hi Kari, do you know any one that would donate used PA/Music Equipment to my church? I don't really mind the size and the number what matters is that it is in working condition and can enhance our worship and outdoor ministry activities.

    We have tried to acquire some on our own but things seem not to be working out well right now. In a country with over 40% living on less than a dollar a day, its just not easy to raise enough funds for this.

    Please in case you know of someone, church or organization that can help us, do let me know. my e-mail address is cdavidopio@yahoo.com

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • A. Michaelson

    A. Michaelson says

    Hi, Kari. I’m the author of The Sandal Maker, a new novel about the public ministry of Jesus from a unique point of view. A story will take you on a fascinating journey in first century Galilee. A “must read” for those on a spiritual quest. You can read reviews at Amazon.com. I’m including here the publisher's notes. Let me know what you think.


    Book Description:
    Caleb, an elderly Jew, leaves the safety of his home in Cana on a mission to find a man he believes is in Jerusalem. Miriam, Caleb’s only remaining child, accompanies him disguised as a boy. In the desolation of the war struck Galilean countryside, father and daughter risk their lives to journey south on the Jordan River trail. As they walk, Caleb intrigues Miriam with a captivating story of his youth that will change her future destiny. A story of a time forty years prior when he became a sandal maker in order to observe a man some called the Miracle Worker. Caleb secretly kept notes of the events he saw and heard as he followed the crowds. With his objective, skeptical point of view, he reveals the fascinating ministry of the one he called the “Master.” Heart pounding perils and the threat of death endanger the two travelers, but nothing could foretell the fate awaiting them in Jerusalem!

    From the Publisher
    A. Michaelson's new novel, The Sandal Maker, takes the reader on a fascinating journey back to the year 70 A.D. in worn torn Palestine. The author creatively weaves two stories together, one in the present, the other in the past. Heartwarming, enlightening and tragic, The Sandal Maker paints a portrait of one man's life and his involvement in how the gospel came to be.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Satya A

    Satya A says

    Namaste Kari,

    I just wanted to let you know that "The Courtesan and the Sadhu" is now available on Kindle at www.amazon.com.
    Satya

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Good Day:

    Kari, what are you reading?

    JASS!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary B

    Mary B says

    Hi Kari. I like your profile and wanted to say thank you for some good reviews. I have added a few of your picks to my must read list. Happy Valentine's Day!

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary B

    Mary B says

    Hi Kari. I like your profile and wanted to say thank you for some good reviews. I have added a few of your picks to my must read list. Happy Valentine's Day!

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Ancient One

    The Ancient One says

    Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
    and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
    Happiness never decreases by being shared.


    Buddha

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    If you're interested in Montana books, you might know, or like to try

    YONDER: A PLACE IN MONTANA

    For nearly 70 years the 36-acre ranch on the West Boulder River Heminway bought in 1987 was known as the "Bar 20". When he signed the deed, Heminway was handed the Bar 20's voluminous legal history and wondered if there was more to the place than just a name. Only a handful of acres, the ranch for generations has appeared on many topological maps as a formidable feature, "Bar 20 Ranch". YONDER is the story of this improbably named ranch, and documents Heminway's search for the Bar 20's former owners, as critical to Heminway as his own ancestors. In the process he teases apart their reasons for coming, the transience of their dreams, the causes of their leaving, and in the process tells the history of Montana.

    or

    TRAVERS CORNER: CLASSIC STORIES ABOUT FLY-FISHING AND A SMALL MONTANA TOWN

    [A collection of stories that present] "a brilliant image of smalltown life in Montana." -Kirkus Reviews

    ". . . this charming debut collection of stories. Waldie builds his tales around character, creating a small community of homespun folk who are quintessentially American and just a bit eccentric." -Publishers Weekly

    ". . . sheer heaven on a trout stream . . ." -Kirkus Reviews

    Travers Corners, Montana, is not much more than Main Street. There's Ed's Garage and Filling Station; McCracken's General Store-still owned and run by Junior, the worst fisherman who ever lived to fish; the Tin Cup Bar and Cafe; Dolores's Beauty Parlor; and The Carrie Creek Boat Works and Guide Service, Judson C. Clark, proprietor.

    And yet, Travers Corners is also much more than that main street: it's an outpost for all things wild and beautiful-rivers and creeks, wildlife, cattle ranches, glaciated benchlands sweeping into the timbered mountains. Travers is a fly-fishing paradise. And it is peopled with the same cast of "witty homespun characters" (Library Journal) as Waldie's first two books of stories, Travers Corners. In the final volume in the series, Waldie brings joy and tears, love and closure to the lives of the characters we've grown to know and care so much about.

    The simplicity of the rural West beckons from every tale: wisdom, trust, and good deeds, the loyalty of friends, the love of wild places, a respect for all living things-written with a wit that puts it all in perspective. The world would be a better place if we had all spent some time in Travers Corners.

    Then again, maybe you know these already!

    Regard, Michael

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mohammad R

    Mohammad R says

    Lyons: The Crusades are Over;
    The West needs to Engage with the Muslims
    Jonathan Lyons writes in a guest op-ed for IC:



    http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/lyons-crusades-are-over-west-needs-to.html


    With the change of administration in Washington, the time has come to acknowledge the so-called war on terrorism for what it truly is: the latest reminder of the West’s enduring failure to engage in any meaningful way with the world of Islam. For almost 1,000 years, attempts at understanding have been held hostage to a grand Western narrative that shapes what can – and, more importantly, what cannot – be said about Islam and Muslims. This same narrative, an anti-Islam discourse of enduring power, dominates every aspect of the way we think, and write, and speak about Islam. It shapes how we listen to what they say and interpret what it is they do. As such, it exercises a corrosive effect on everything from politics, the history of ideas, and theology to international relations, human rights, and national security policies. This has left the West both intellectually and politically unable to respond to some of the most significant challenges of the early 21st century – the global rise of Islamist political power, the more narrow emergence of terrorism in the name of Islam, tensions between established social values and multi-cultural rights on the part of growing Muslim immigrant populations, and so on.
    Cont'd (click below or on "comments")

    These failings have pushed the theoretical notion of a clash of world civilizations, advanced by Samuel Huntington back in 1993, toward self-fulfilling prophecy. In such an atmosphere it has been all too easy for the neoconservatives to sell the war on terrorism as essential to national security and to lead the West into its greatest confrontation with Islam since the Middle Ages. But the anti-Islam discourse does more than underpin the war on terrorism, the present wave of Islamophobia, or the broader cultural project advanced by proponents of a coming civilizational clash. Indeed, it has silently shaped 1,000 years of shared history – and seems destined to shape the future as well. Its powers explain a whole host of cultural, intellectual, and political attitudes without which the clash of civilizations thesis would be literally unthinkable.

    Central to this narrative is a series of familiar ideas across the political arena, on the Internet, on talk radio, in the mainstream media, and, all too frequently, in academia. Such notions include: Islam is a religion of violence; its tenets are upheld by coercion or outright force; Islam’s prophet, its teachings, and even its God are false; Muslims are “medieval” and fearful of modernity; Muslims are sexually perverse – either lascivious polygamists, repressive misogynists, or both; and, finally, they are caught up in a jealous rage at the West’s failure to value them or their beliefs. Rarely are these core ideas of Islam subjected to any nuanced analysis. Rather, they are often asserted or simply left to operate quietly in the background. In a remark as apt today as when it was first advanced 900 years ago, the Crusades chronicler Guibert de Nogent noted that it was not important to know anything about Islam in order to attack it: “It is safe to speak evil of one whose malignity exceeds whatever ill can be spoken.”

    As a result, the West’s “conversation” with Islam has always been a one-sided affair, a dialogue with itself. This has meant a fatal decoupling of the Western idea of Islam from its meaning and content as a vital religious, social, and cultural institution in its own right. Incompatible with Western interests or outside its conceptual understanding, the belief system of the Muslims has been set aside in favor of a denatured Islam that better first the established discourse.

    To begin to address this phenomenon, we must peel back the layers of the Western narrative Islam and to uncover the wartime propaganda of the First Crusade that sits at its core. In fact, many of the same themes and images of Islam prevalent in the West today can be found in their original form. Before the 11th century CE, the Muslims were just another barbarian nuisance for much of Western Christendom, like the Vikings or the Magyars. The build-up to the First Crusade, called in 1095, changed all that forever; from then on, Muslims would be endowed with social, political, and religious qualities that were the mirror-opposite of Western ideals and values. Today, such assertions still echo: We love liberty, They hate freedom; We are rational, They are not; We are modern, They are medieval; We are good, They are evil.

    The resultant distortions in public policies are clear to see. Less noticed are the underlying assumptions that serve to valorize these policies in the first place. Among the most potent is the idea that Islam and modernity are antithetical, a view supported by a Western history of science that has literally written the Muslims out of the textbooks. Yet, the arrival in Europe of Arab science and philosophy transmuted the backward West into a technological superpower. Like the elusive “elixir” – from the word al-iksir of the Arab alchemists – for changing base metal into gold, Muslim science altered medieval Christendom beyond recognition. For the first time in centuries, Europe’s eyes opened to the world around it. This encounter with Arab science even restored the art of telling time, lost to the Western Christians of the early Middle Ages. Without accurate control over clock and calendar, the rational organization of society was unthinkable. And so was the development of science, technology, and industry, as well as the liberation of man from the thrall of nature. Muslim science and philosophy helped rescue the Christian world from ignorance and made possible the very idea of the West.

    Yet how many among us today would stop to acknowledge our enormous debt to the Arabs, let alone endeavor to repay it? How many would recognize their invaluable bequest of much of our modern technical lexicon: from azimuth to zenith, from algebra to zero? Or attest to more mundane Muslim influence in everything from foods we eat – apricots, oranges, and artichokes to name a few – to such common nautical terms as admiral, sloop, and monsoon? The names al-Khwarizmi, Avicenna, al-Idrisi, and Averroes – giants of Arab learning and dominant figures in medieval Europe for centuries – today invoke little if any response from the educated lay reader. Most are forgotten, little more than distant memories from a bygone era.

    Yet these were just a few of the players in an extraordinary Arab scientific and philosophical tradition that lies hidden under centuries of Western ignorance and outright anti-Muslim prejudice. A recent public opinion survey found a majority of Americans see “little” or “nothing” to admire in Islam or the Muslim world. But turn back the pages of time and it is impossible to envision Western civilization without the fruits of Arab science: al-Khwarizmi’s art of algebra; the comprehensive medical teachings and philosophy of Avicenna; the lasting geography and cartography of al-Idrisi; or the rigorous rationalism of Averroes. Even more important than any individual work was the Arabs’ overall contribution that lies at the very heart of the contemporary West – the realization that science can grant man power over nature.

    Our willful forgetting of the Arab legacy accelerated with the “Renaissance,” when the West increasingly looked for inspiration to an idealized notion of classical Greece. Eager to claim direct descent from the likes of Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Archimedes, Western thinkers deliberately marginalized the role of Arab learning. “I shall scarcely be persuaded that anything good can come from Arabia,” wrote Petrarch, the most prominent of the early humanists, in the fourteenth century. Western historians of science have largely carried on in this vein; many cast the Arabs as benign but effectively neutral caretakers of Greek knowledge who did little or nothing to advance the work of the Ancients. Such accounts are grounded in the persistent notion of the West’s “recovery” of classical learning, with the clear implication that this knowledge somehow comprised the natural birthright of Christian Europe and was merely misplaced during the Middle Ages. They are also colored profoundly by a Western consensus, often invoked to explain the state of the Muslim world today, that Islam is inherently hostile to innovation.

    Unraveling the anti-Islam discourse allows us to identify an alternative narrative of relations between Islam and the West. This would take their undoubted rivalries and opposing interests out of the accepted framework of East versus West and place them within a common cultural arena. The prevailing discourse, however, is so powerful and authoritative that such an appeal has failed to make any serious inroads into Western thought. The result is an unnatural, and clearly unhelpful, separation of two rich and powerful cultural traditions that share far more than we are generally prepared to accept. This, in turn, perverts Western understanding of the Muslim world and its culture and all but guarantees that any attempt at east-West communication will result in what the Turks call “a dialogue of the deaf.”

    Still, I would like to conclude by proposing just such an alternate reading, one that shifts the problem from the traditional view of inter-cultural rivalry to one of intra-cultural contest. Rather than delimit a boundary between East and West, it would then be possible to assign one large “interactive” cultural space, from the Indian sub-continent in the East to the Canary Islands, the traditional westernmost point of the medieval world. In effect, this would mark a return to the view of the world captured in one of the most remarkable landmarks in the history of ideas: the atlas produced by the Muslim scholar al-Idrisi in the mid-12th century by commission of the Christian king of Sicily which was then multi-faith – Muslim, Christian, and Orthodox.

    We are then faced with a compelling, new history of Islam and the West – one of continuous interaction between two cultures locked in relations for 1,000 years – in which it is hard to say where one stops and the other begins. Might this not require a radical rephrasing of the West’s favorite polemical question – “What’s wrong with Islam?” – to a less comfortable query, “What’s wrong with us?”

    Jonathan Lyons is author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization, just released by Bloomsbury Press. A former Reuters correspondent and editor, he is completing his PhD in sociology of religion at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, and teaching at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va. Details of the book, including an image gallery and notes on the leading figures, can be found here.



    http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/lyons-crusades-are-over-west-needs-to.html

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • shfu

    shfu says

    hello what is twilight all about? i am hearing the name a lot recently

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rick Metrick

    Rick Metrick says

    I read This Present Darkness while being a guest speaker at a youth camp. My cabin have only candlelight and I freeked out. Never stopped reading the entire night for fear of demonic presence in the room. We are in an eternal demonic struggle, it simple reminded me on a different level. That's my story. What did you think of the book?

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jeff Reid

    Jeff Reid says

    Malena Lott's "Dating daVinci" is now on Storycasting (www.storycasting.com), and Malena is soon going to come on and post a "cast" for it. We think Storycasting can be a great resource for lit instructors - inject movie fun into books by using a "casting exercise". Come join the fun!

    - Jeff

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Melody

    Melody says

    Thank you so much for the book! I received it yesterday in the mail & I am looking foward to reading it tomorrow after the kids go to bed! Thanks again,
    Melody

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Satya A

    Satya A says

    Hi Kari, If you are interested in receiving a free copy of "The Courtesan and the Sadhu," please send an email to publisher@dharmavision.com. Satya

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Adil a

    Adil a says

    hi how ru

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Cindy H

    Cindy H says

    This is so cool!! Thanks for the info!!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Folu I

    Folu I says

    Hi Kari, it has been a while. Hope yo are fine. Check on Connecting with the Creator and join our interesting topics. We'd love to read your thoughts, Cheers.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Mike Farris

    Mike Farris says

    Hey, long time no talk. Well I started my college classes again so i probably wont have a lot of time to read for the next four months, except textbooks that is. Anyways, God bless you and your family and I wish you happy life and reading.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Hi There Mrs. Andersen,

    how are you doing? Fine, I pray. I am sorry that I haven't communicated much, but I do keep you and your family in my prayers daily. As I pray you do me. So, just a note to a very busy, and beautiful mom. to let you know, that you are
    loved and appreciated....for the grand and lovely little things that you do!

    PEACE!

    JASS!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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