Monday, September 12, 2005

Milestone (I think)

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According to Blogger , my free host (and my fallible arithmetic) this is the 200th existing post to this blog. Thank God! (I also thank Blog...
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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Teaching was important in the early church

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Teaching was an important part of the work of the early church, perhaps the most important part. Being a good teacher was part of the qualif...
Saturday, September 10, 2005

Travel West, 2

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There's another feature of traveling west, namely the people. The Southwest, of course, has lots of Hispanics, but it was a pleasant eye...
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Travel West

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We flew to Southern California by way of Chicago. Two impressions from the flight: 1) The mid-West (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio) is pretty...
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Thursday, September 08, 2005

A Few Young Adult Books

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Over the past few months, I have read a few young adult books, most of them for the first time. Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth w...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Sunspots 21

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Things I have recently spotted, over the last month, that may be of interest to someone else: * * * * * The Wikiped...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Travel hiatus over

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Thank God, we have returned home, although we enjoyed our trip immensely. (You can see some of the photographic highlights here .) Two thoug...
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Friday, August 05, 2005

Travel hiatus coming

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Our daughters (and their husbands) are staking us to most of a retirement trip to various parts of Western North America. We expect to be go...
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Sunspots 20

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Anyone interested in Christian fiction, by and about African-Am...
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Thursday, August 04, 2005

E=mc squared by David Bodanis

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I'd like to thank one of our daughters, who urged me to purchase a used copy of this book at one of the bookstores in Stratford, ON . I...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Sunspots 19

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: If you use G-Mail , it may not be as private as you think it...
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What must be Christian about a Christian Novel?

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There are, I am sure, many others who have written on this topic. I am aware of a few of them. Over a year ago, Jared wrote " Drawing ...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

When Did I Begin?

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Catez, at AllThings2All, posted one of her usual thoughtful posts, on whether birth control pills are abortifacient . There have been severa...
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Monday, August 01, 2005

Angela Hunt on Christian Novels

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Angela Hunt, the author of quite a few books , (as Angela Elwell Hunt--she blogs as Angela Hunt) wrote a post entitled "What Makes a N...
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Sunday, July 31, 2005

Things I'm thankful for, 3

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Taxes. (I'm not wanting to be thankful for more of them, but being taxed proves that someone thinks I have resources, and tax money prov...
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Saturday, July 30, 2005

Sunspots 18

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: An article in the July 30, 2005 Kansas City Star states tha...

Emergent Properties & Animal Behavior

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In a recent post , I wrote about Heinrich's The Thermal Warriors, which is about the difficulty of coping with being cold-blooded, and t...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Emergent Properties & Computer Consciousness

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Emergent properties come about when lower-level structures create higher-level structures with properties additional to those of the lower-l...
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Thursday, July 28, 2005

The War of the Worlds

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My wife and I went to see the new film version of The War of the Worlds yesterday. It was a gripping experience. The rating was PG-13, but...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Sunspots 17

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: There are hints of a possible connection between obesity and b...
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