Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sunspots 258

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: I'm not a fan of The Simpsons, but a lot of other ...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Why face lifts don't work very well

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A recent report from National Public Radio tells us what many, especially some of us who are older, already know, mostly from watching agin...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

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As I have indicated previously, the first three of the Earthsea books, by Ursula K. Le Guin , are among my favorite works of fantastic liter...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

My Song is Love Unknown, by Samuel Crossman

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One of our daughters introduced me to this song: My Song is Love Unknown My song is love unknown, My Savior’s love to me; Love to the l...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Forgiveness and grace from a civil rights disturbance, 50 years later

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National Public Radio reports on a powerful story. In 1960, a group of non-violent civil rights activists attempted to integrate a public f...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Eternity, how long is it?

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blogger i am grateful -- Kerry i am asked for a definition of forever. This is not a definition, and it's not original with me. I don...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Happy Earth Day!

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This was taken from an airplane window, and shows part of a large desert, somewhere between the Salton Sea (which is an interesting examp...

Sunspots 257

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:   Politics: (or science, or humor) National Public Radio repor...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Duriez on the fiction written by Tolkien and Lewis

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My previous post was on Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship , by Colin Duriez (Mahwah, New Jersey: HiddenSpring, an imprint of ...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Tolkien and Lewis, Lewis and Tolkien

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I have recently read Tolkien and Lewis: The Gift of Friendship , by Colin Duriez. (Mahway, NJ:HiddenSpring, a Division of Paulist Press, 200...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

We don't know all the answers!

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Surely the Christian pastor ought to acknowledge that this is a matter upon which Evangelicals can and do hold widely divergent views? And...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Sunspots 256

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: NPR reports that a new species of lizard, over six fee...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Pirate Freedom, by Gene Wolfe

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I recently read Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom . Wolfe is a much-honored writer of fantastic literature. I had been reluctant to begin ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

How to treat aliens

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I have been enjoying the Bible Search on-line tool from the American Bible Society, which allows me to search for a word in nine versions...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Jesus, Socialist?

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The Free Dictionary gives these as the first two definitions of socialism: 1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization...
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Sunspots 255

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (or insanity)  Wired reports that a man has created a mo...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

Are the ideas of the past always wrong? Chronological snobbery

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I was reading a book about C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, and came across a discussion of an idea that was common to these two literary giants. Th...
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Friday, April 02, 2010

Good Friday gap

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The sermon I heard on Sunday used the Palm Sunday story from Luke, and also Philippians 2:5-11 , as its basis. You would, of course, expect ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Patents on human genes may be ruled against the law

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National Public Radio (and others) recently reported that a judge in a US federal court has ruled that patenting particular human DNA sequen...
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Sunspots 254

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired has a photo gallery on how we are geoengineering...