Wednesday, April 06, 2005

"Further In" with the arts

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Thanks to a Bloglines search for C. S. Lewis, I found Jared Wilson's blog, Mysterium Tremendum . That's the good news. The bad ne...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Mutated azalea

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This azalea grows outside a bedroom window. My wife took the picture from inside the house, while I tried to hold a branch out of the way, s...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Mrs. Cain? Inbreeding in the Old Testament

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My friend, April, asked about how a good God would allow early humans to marry close relatives, which is, later in Scripture, prohibited....
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Saturday, April 02, 2005

Sunspots 3

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There are two things about blogs which make groupthink likely. The first is that blogs are partisan; there is no requirement that they shou...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Living wills, advanced directives

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By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. (Hebrews ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Kiln People by David Brin

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David Brin's Kiln People was published by Tom Doherty Associates in 2002. It's a long book, nearly 600 pages. I got it for Christma...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Low In The Grave He Lay

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LOW IN THE GRAVE HE LAY (Public Domain) Words & Music: Robert Lowry, 1874 Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior, Waiting the ...
Monday, March 28, 2005

Temptations in Narnia: Dawn Treader

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Edmund and Lucy, and their insufferable cousin, Eustace Scrubb, are called to Narnia, where they join King Caspian on a voyage (in progress)...
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Sunday, March 27, 2005

Angel at Empty Tomb

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I scanned this picture from an old Bible story book, Half Hours With the Bible: New Testament, Being a Consecutive Arrangement of the Narrat...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

Last Supper Woodcut

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This doesn't exactly coincide with events of Holy Week for this day. Sorry. I scanned this picture from an old Bible story book, Hal...
Friday, March 25, 2005

Colors: Black

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Black is the most common color word in English. According to Wordcount , it is the 356th most common word, between "care" and ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Temptations in Narnia: The Last Battle

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This ends my series on temptations, or moral choices, in the Narnia books, which began with this post . I believe my desire is to go "f...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Blood Sacrifices

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Both the Old and New Testaments, or Covenants, required a blood sacrifice. The author of Hebrews speaks about this: Hebrews 9 :11 But whe...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Temptations in Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

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This book is about a time before the Pevensie children were born. Digory Kirke, who grows up to become the professor, in The Lion, the Witc...
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Monday, March 21, 2005

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

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In honor of Holy Week, and J. S. Bach's birthday, 1685 (Also our younger son-in-law's, quite a few years later). O sacred Hea...
Sunday, March 20, 2005

Triumphal Entry

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I scanned this picture from an old Bible story book, Half Hours With the Bible: New Testament, Being a Consecutive Arrangement of the Narrat...
Saturday, March 19, 2005

Sunspots 2

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John Dekker tells me that "Hapax legomena" (One of the curious blog names I mentioned in Sunspots 1 ) refers to words in a t...
Friday, March 18, 2005

Embryonic stem cells without embryos?

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An essay, "Eggs alone," in the March 10, 2005 issue of Nature states that normal human females begin their reproductive period ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Cal Thomas on Global Warming

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A recent column by Cal Thomas (who is an evangelical, I believe) says: Do evangelicals have time on their hands because they've finis...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Colors: White

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White light isn't exactly colored light. It is a mixture of all the other colors of the rainbow, at least in theory. White surfaces a...