Sun and Shield

Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff).
God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
The Wikipedia is usually a pretty good reference. I mostly use the World English Bible (WEB), because it is public domain. I am grateful.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Sunspots 992

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  Gizmodo reports on a woman who married an artificially intelligent entity that she created in cyberspace. Really. Gizmodo also reports th...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Sunspots 991

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  Ken Schenck has been writing an up-to-date version of C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters . Here is the 23rd chapter. A Conversation writ...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Grumbling about food is about as bad as idolatry

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1 Corinthians 10:1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Sunspots 990

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  Things I have spotted that may be of interest to others. Graphic from NASA. Bible Scholar Ken Schenck on the different interpretations of ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Erika Kirk: forgiveness in the New Testament

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Charlie Kirk was assassinated. At his funeral, his widow, Erika, the mother of their two small children, said that she forgave the assassin....
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Sunspots 989

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  Things that I have spotted that may be of interest to others: Gizmodo reports that spending too much time reading or scrolling while defec...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Sunspots 988

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A Zdnet article tells us that most attempts to use Artificial Intelligence in businesses do not really help those businesses . National Pub...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

New Testament teaching on care of the environment

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  New Testament teaching on care of the environment Most of the usual teaching on what the Bible says about care of the environment is from ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Sunspots 987

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  Quanta magazine on the 100 birthday of quantum mechanics . Gizmodo analyzes the results of DOGE's activity. There wasn't much mon...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

The "Begats"

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Some of you may be familiar with the King James Version of the Bible, which occasionally uses language that is not quite right for the 2020...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Sunspots 986

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Gizmodo reports that potatoes are descended from tomatoes . Newsweek , and other outlets, report a lightning event that was over 500 miles l...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Sunspots 985

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  Gizmodo reports that lightning kills more trees than we thought . CBS News, and other sources, reports that corn plants release water vapo...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Sunspots 984

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  Gizmodo reports that ICE is adding the DNA of immigrants , including of children as young as four, to a government database. LiveScience ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Trump vs. Musk, or the other way around, in light of Matthew 18

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Matthew 18:15 “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained bac...
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Martin LaBar
I have retired from teaching science at Southern Wesleyan University. That's my wife with me in the picture.
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