Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Christianity and high art

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Warning! This is longer than a Twitter tweet! My Sunday School quarterly for next Sunday includes the following questions: "Why do yo...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

James 1 chart

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This chart is based on one used by Kenneth Foutz, who, like me, has retired from teaching at Southern Wesleyan University. He gave me perm...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: Gideon prays for guidance

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One of the best known examples of looking for God's guidance, in the Bible, is the story of Gideon. Here's part of it: Judges 6:36 ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Sunspots 315

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: A video of a cat and an owl , who are apparently good fri...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Biblical truths in "Thor," the movie?

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A question that readers of fantastic literature should often ask themselves is "does reading about non-Christian religions, the occult,...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: John prays for Christ's return

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The most important parts of a book, story, essay, and the like are often the beginning and the end. I'm not sure that that's quite t...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Immanence

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I have some idea of what immanence means. Perhaps you do, too. I recently read a fine article on the subject , as it relates to God's...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sunspots 314

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: Wired reports on a professor's attempt to classify ...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Stephen Hawking and God, again

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Stephen Hawking , famous scientist, and best-selling author, has said, in an interview , that 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy stor...
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: A delayed answer in the war against Benjamin

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Judges 20 tells a remarkable story. The Israelites were attacking one of their own tribes, that of Benjamin, and for a good reason. The Ben...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Disagreeing about origins can be done courteously!

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In a recent post , Steve Matheson, of Quintessence of Dust , points out some serious flaws in one of the very few attempts to demonstrate In...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Sunspots 313

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired reports on the discovery, in the lab, of a new p...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: Hagar

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This is part of a series on prayers in the Bible. For the previous entry, see here . This being Mother's Day in the U. S., I decided t...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

Influencing Twitter through Twitter robots

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In the recent Atlantic , Andy Isaacson reports on an experiment to create Twitter bots, and the results. As the report says: " Can one...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Sunspots 312

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (but quite serious) The housing price index , for the las...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Death of bin Laden: musings

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Osama bin Laden was an evil man. He was dedicated to the destruction of the U. S. Indirectly, he caused the deaths of three or four thousand...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

You can't imagine your future without a functional memory

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Carl Zimmer is one of today's best science writers. In a recent column in Discover , he reports on research that indicates that some p...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: A prayer that Gideon didn't pray

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Judges 7:9 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 Bu...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Soul Surfer, the movie

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My wife and I recently saw the movie, Soul Surfer . It's not the greatest movie ever made, but it was good. Much of the photography, inv...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip

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Ombria in Shadow (New York: Ace Books, 2003) by Patricia A. McKillip, is a good book. As the Wikipedia article on the book says, it won th...