The Alphabet of Grace Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/the-alphabet-of-grace/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:13:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Alphabet of Grace Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/category/the-alphabet-of-grace/ 32 32 116298986 The Alphabet of Grace: Z is for Zealot https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-z-is-for-zealot/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-z-is-for-zealot/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:59:05 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30509 Colloquially, there’s a big difference between having zeal and being a zealot. The former is generally considered a good thing, but the latter is not. While a zealous person is considered diligent, uncompromising, and enthusiastic, a zealot is seen as a dangerous fanatic. Technically, though, a zealot is just a person who is unbending in […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-z-is-for-zealot/feed/ 4 30509 The Alphabet of Grace: Y is for Yes https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-y-is-for-yes/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-y-is-for-yes/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:39:59 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30493 In 2005, Danny Wallace, a freelance radio producer for the BBC in London, was recently divorced and bored at work. Then a woman on a bus randomly advised him to “Say yes more” and Danny’s life began to change. If this sounds familiar it might be because you’re thinking of the 2008 Jim Carrey film, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-y-is-for-yes/feed/ 2 30493 The Alphabet of Grace: X is for Xenophilia https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-x-is-for-xenophilia/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-x-is-for-xenophilia/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:18:21 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30484 “Love the foreigner as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” Leviticus 19:34 We’re used to hearing people being referred to as xenophobic. Whether it’s attached to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front in France, or Nigel Farage’s British UKIP party, or Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in Australia, it refers to those who stir up […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-x-is-for-xenophilia/feed/ 3 30484 The Alphabet of Grace: W is for Weirdos https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-w-is-for-weirdos/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-w-is-for-weirdos/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2021 02:32:11 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30470 In 1997, Apple launched its now-iconic “Think Different” advertising campaign, featuring black-and-white footage of groundbreakers like Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and others, and voiced by actor Richard Dreyfus. It is one of the truly great pieces of advertising copy ever written: “Here’s to the crazy ones. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-w-is-for-weirdos/feed/ 7 30470 The Alphabet of Grace: V is for Vaccine https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-v-is-for-vaccine/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-v-is-for-vaccine/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:07:31 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30385 I was listening to a radio report about the rollout of vaccines across America on the same day the COVID-19 death toll hit 499,000 and we all took a collective breath anticipating it clicking over to half a million. Half a million deaths. That’s more that all US military casualties in World War II. Worldwide, […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-v-is-for-vaccine/feed/ 4 30385 The Alphabet of Grace: U is for Underground https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-u-is-for-underground/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-u-is-for-underground/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:23:58 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30366 The Underground Railroad has been called “one of the most revolutionary, quiet, insurrectionary, and subterranean movements in American history.” During the early 1800s, it was a network of people, African American and white, who offered shelter and assistance to escaped enslaved people, guiding them from one safe house to the next, from the South to […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-u-is-for-underground/feed/ 2 30366 The Alphabet of Grace: T is for (Taking your) Time https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-t-is-for-taking-your-time/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-t-is-for-taking-your-time/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:55:02 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30346 Twenty-five years ago, one of my favourite writers, Paul Auster, adapted his short story Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story into the screenplay for Wayne Wang’s beautiful little film, Smoke.  Auster’s central character Auggie Wren, played by Harvey Keitel in the film, runs a tobacconist shop on the corner of Third Street and Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn.  Every […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-t-is-for-taking-your-time/feed/ 3 30346 The Alphabet of Grace: S is for Systemic Racism https://mikefrost.net/s-is-for-systemic-racism/ https://mikefrost.net/s-is-for-systemic-racism/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:04:52 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30328 I am a beneficiary of systemic racism. In fact, if the system wasn’t racist, I would have had a very different one to the life I’ve had. My father grew up during the Great Depression. He was the only child of a single mother, his father having walked out when he was a small child. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/s-is-for-systemic-racism/feed/ 1 30328 The Alphabet of Grace: R is for Reel https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-r-is-for-reel/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-r-is-for-reel/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:04:34 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30312 Everyone I know who has seen Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 film Cinema Paradiso loves it. It’s an unrelentingly sentimental homage to the power and beauty of cinema, and it just melts the hearts of those who watch it, mine included. I like to think I’ve got a pretty strong resistance to syrupy movies, but Cinema Paradiso […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-r-is-for-reel/feed/ 4 30312 The Alphabet of Grace: Q is for Quiet https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-q-is-for-quiet/ https://mikefrost.net/the-alphabet-of-grace-q-is-for-quiet/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:41:46 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=30301 “Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.” ― Susan Cain A counsellor once asked me to recall what were the most common terms my father used to describe me when I was a child. The first word that came to mind was “vague”. He told me I was vague quite a […]

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