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.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Freedom in Proper Perspective: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Merely freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds a number of new ones. However, in early democra...

Sunday, August 24, 2008

I Am Not Skilled to Understand

I am not skilled to understand What God hath willed, what God hath planned; I only know that at His right hand Is One Who is my Savior! ...

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Sunspots 174

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Sports: Wired on how to cheat in athletic contests and not ge...

Sunday, August 17, 2008

A little about "Grace" in the Bible

Many people know what the first verse in the Bible says. Not nearly so many know what the last one says. I'll give you a hint. It's ...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Hiatus coming

I am going on hiatus, and don't expect to post much, except for some Sunday devotional posts, and perhaps a "Sunspots" once in...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sunspots 173

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired on how networking really works . Wired has an...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Do the Narnia books tell us about the planets?

First Things has a review of a book by Michael Ward, entitled Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis . The the...

Monday, August 11, 2008

Did NASA prove that Joshua's long day happened?

I received an e-mail forward a few days ago, which claimed that NASA had proved the story of the long day, told in the book of Joshua. The B...

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Ordering God around, at Isaiah's command.

This is one of many remarkable statements in the Bible: Isaiah 62:6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all th...

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Good for Becky Hammon!

Becky Hammon is a US women's basketball player, born in South Dakota, currently on the roster of the San Antonio Silver Stars of the W...

Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Outlaws of Sherwood, by Robin McKinley

I recently read The Outlaws of Sherwood , by Robin McKinley (Ace, 1989). This is a re-telling of the legends of Robin Hood , who is best kn...

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Sunspots 172

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (or something) An oil-rich man from Qatar had his Lamborg...

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Warning: This may be addictive!

Wordle is an on-line utility which takes text that you enter (or it will get text from any URL with an RSS feed, such as a blog) and genera...

Monday, August 04, 2008

J. K. Rowling gives a speech.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, gave the commencement address at Harvard University in June of this year. Her title was ...

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Death and roses

It happened this morning as I stood in my garden. Death suddenly jumped out from behind a bush, just when the thought came to me that one d...

Friday, August 01, 2008

What to do (and not do) when a Christian offends

I hope that this is a subject that you have never experienced, or never do experience. Nonetheless, some musings. Jesus had something to say...

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Church music and worldliness

Some aspects of church music are too close to the world. a) Showing off. This, by the way, doesn't have to be done with a guitar or a dr...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Sunspots 171

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: An article in Slate says that there may be a link betw...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Church Music and the body

Certain habits are considered dangerous, by Christians and others, because they put our body at risk. Some Christians might even go so far a...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Church music, some additional thoughts

In a previous post , I presented Biblical evidence that worship may legitimately be quite loud, and that it also may be quite soft. I would ...

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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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