Friday, November 10, 2006

". . . being dead, yet speaketh." Bible

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My wife saw a quote from a previous post of mine , which said this: "I am constantly struck by the strangeness of reading works that ...
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Brother Lawrence on using the Web

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The Practice of the Presence of God , about Brother Lawrence of the Cross, written in the late 1600's, is a short book, available in se...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Sunspots 81

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Politics: Charles Colson wrote "Our message is not , We ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

"One Night With the King" -- yes, there is a Hathach

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In a previous post, I questioned any telling of the story of Esther without mentioning the role of Hathach, who speaks what many people thin...
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Monday, November 06, 2006

A Model for Christian political blogging: Philiphronos

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Laura, at Pursuing Holiness, posted a challenge to those who blog about political issues, and claim to be Christians. She quotes from I Pet...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Diary of an Old Soul, Nov 5 - 11

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5. "Wake, thou that sleepest; rise up from the dead, And Christ will give thee light.*" I do not know What sleep is, what is death...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

Movie about Esther -- no Hathach?

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I haven't seen "One Night With the King," which is currently showing in some theaters, and is about the story of Esther. We ma...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Why I plan to vote

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Veracity published an interesting post , in which she argues that Christians should not vote, if they are not convinced that one of the cand...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Sunspots 80

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Politics: A Slate article , claiming that the US is now using t...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Boo!

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Garrison Keillor, at the Writer's Almanac, has a couple of paragraphs about today's holiday/celebration/abomination/whatever it is....
Monday, October 30, 2006

Chance and 20th Century physics, 2

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The previous post on this topic is here . In it, I discussed the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and quantum physics in general. Some thin...
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Thanks for 40 years

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We have been married 40 years, as of today, and we thank God for the privilege.
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Diary of an Old Soul, October 29 - November 4

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29. What though things change and pass, nor come again! Thou, the life-heart of all things, changest never. The sun shines on; the fair clou...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Jane Langton: goodness in fantasy

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Jane Langton's The Fledgling was a 1981 Newbery Honor book. It is set in modern Concord, Massachusetts, where Thoreau became famous. Ge...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Prayer: Conversing with God

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Christianity Today recently published a list of " The Top 50 Books that have Shaped Evangelicals. " They say that the list is sti...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Sunspots 79

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Politics: Nothing interesting to someone else, but a LOT of atta...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Diary of an Old Soul, October 22 - 28

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22. Against my fears, my doubts, my ignorance, I trust in thee, O father of my Lord! The world went on in this same broken dance, When, worn...
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Sunspots 78

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Politics: Ken Schenck, a professor of New Testament, on why he d...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Hiatus

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We are traveling, and I probably won't have web access, or time, to post for a couple of weeks, more or less. I may get out a Sunspots, ...
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Diary of an Old Soul, October 15 - 21

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15. In youth, when once again I had set out To find thee, Lord, my life, my liberty, A window now and then, clouds all about, Would open int...