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.

Monday, August 31, 2009

St. Paul: Multitasker?

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Wired reports on a study that indicates that habitual multitasking hinders concentration, even when you are only doing one thing. Was Pau...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

What the Kingdom of Heaven is like

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Matthew 13:31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowe...
Friday, August 28, 2009

God's complexity

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Isaiah 55 :8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord . 9 For as the heavens are higher tha...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

How to be saved

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This post was viewed over 300 times, for which I am grateful. However, in March, 2013, I decided to update it. The new post, much like the...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sunspots 225

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: Science: ( And Sports ) A blog post from the BBC on how ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Children and childlikeness in the Bible

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I recently posted on the concept of simplicity. Today, I am musing about a related concept, childlikeness, or just plain being a child, as ...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Simplicity: a decision point

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There is no article on "Simple," by and of itself, in the Wikipedia. Perhaps it's too simple? Dictionary.com, on the contrary,...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

How we, too often, do Biblical study and interpretation

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From an article in First Things on the Green Bible: The Green Bible presents us with a curious kind of natural theology: We start with thi...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Global Warming and natural selection

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Karl Zimmer has written an article for a publication of Yale University, wherein he presents evidence that climate change, within our life...
Friday, August 21, 2009

How many people perished in Noah's flood?

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In the first place, it was God's flood, not Noah's. I was studying for my Sunday School lesson, some time ago, and was amazed to r...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Dialog on the existence of God

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I recently posted on an apparent change in the Discovery Institute's policies. A commenter took the opportunity to fume about the Disco...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Sunspots 224

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: A case study of how the media distort scientific findi...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Spirit Ring, by Lois McMaster Bujold: A Christian Novel?

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The Spirit Ring is a fantasy novel, by Lois McMaster Bujold , set in Italy during the Middle Ages. The book was a Locus Fantasy Award nomin...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

The Spirit Ring, by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Spirit Ring is a fantasy novel, by Lois McMaster Bujold , set in Italy during the Middle Ages. The book was a Locus Fantasy Award nomin...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Stewardship in Ezra

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Ezra 8:24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. 25 And I weighed out to...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Julie & Julia: my take on the movie

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No car chases, no one gets killed (or even dies), no aliens, just French cooking. Julie & Julia was hilarious! (The link is to the revi...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier is a self-proclaimed follower of the druid religion . In spite of that, as I have indicated in previous posts, here and ...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

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I recently read Kathi Appelt's The Underneath , a first novel with cats, snakes, mythological beings, a bad man, and an alligator, all c...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Sunspots 223

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (or something) Jan links to reports that men spend more ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Discovery Institute's Science Education Policy

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I recently discovered that the Discovery Institute (DI), the organization leading the Intelligent Design (ID) movement, published its ...
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I have retired from teaching science at Southern Wesleyan University. That's my wife with me in the picture.
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