One Thousand & One Nights

• Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 7:30pm
• UC Ballroom
• UMBC ID = Free
• General Admission = $10.00
• On ticket #: 11 of 420

Martial Arts Exhibition

• Wednesday, November 2, 2011 @ 7:00pm
• UC Ballroom
• UMBC ID = FREE
• General Admission = $5.00
• On ticket #: 7 of 250

Philly Bus Trip

• Saturday, November 5, 2011 @ 8:45am
• Bus leaves from the Commons Loop
• SOLD OUT!

Diwali Dhamakha

• Saturday, November 5, 2011 @ 6:00pm
• UC Ballroom
• All Guests = $15.00
• On ticket #: 1 of 250

Showcase: Broadway Backwards

• Thursday, November 10th - on ticket #: 1 of 125
• Friday, November 11th - on ticket #: 1 of 125
• Saturday, November 12th - on ticket #: 1 of 125
• All Showings @ 8:00pm
• The Sports Zone
• UMBC ID = FREE
• General Admission = $5.00
  

Luke 6:32-36 (NIV)

³² “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. ³⁵ But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Reflection:

Earlier this week, we looked at the parable of the shrewd manager and in it, we saw how he shrewdly used the means he had to gain friends.  However, in Jesus’ teaching above, we are taught how we are to give to others in contrast to the shrewd manager.  We are to “love our enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back… to be merciful, just as your Father is merciful… because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” with the promise that as we do so our “reward will be great, and we will be children of the Most High”.

Response:

Let’s spend some time thanking our Father for being kind and merciful to us; that while we were still sinners, He gave His one and only son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins.  Full of thankfulness, let’s pray that He would help us to give to others in the way that He has called us to as His children, in view of His great reward that is ours as we do so.

The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Robert Hirsch, research hydrologist, U.S. Geological Service, who will present “Streamflow, Floods and Climate Change.” The lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 2, at noon, in Sondheim Hall, Room 001.

For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2095.

“Art and Psyche,” a book by Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, has been translated into Serbian.

Through the book, Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance.

The book was originally published by Yale university Press, and has previously been translated to Italian.