Sunday, March 5, 2017

What Does He Know?

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Isaac Newton Says You Can't Have a Flying Car Personally, I want everything that Jonny Quest had.  Or at least Rick Brant .

Lenten Wave #5

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"To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm"- Roger Scruton
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Things are Just Fine in Universities, I See

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College Protestors Send Professor to the  ER If students (and especially professors, who really ought to know better) want to criticize an...

I Knew a School Chaplain Who Lead a Funeral for a Kindergarten's Hamster, but It was Not Even Close to This

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Schoolchildren in Scotland Gave Their Goldfish a Viking Funeral

Lenten Wave #4

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"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. ...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Been There

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Pastor Prays For Sweet Embrace Of Death As Leadership Meeting Nears Fifth Hour “Take me now, Father God. I am ready,” Wesley whispered a...

Heck, I "Try" It Every Sunday Morning

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Try spontaneous prose at workshop  I know it looks like the sermons I preach are extemporaneous, but there's a lot of work necessary t...

Lenten Wave #3

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"When sacrifice is present and respected, life redeems itself; it becomes an object of contemplation, something that 'bears looki...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

It means everything and nothing at the same time

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'Da Kine,' Hawaii's Fantastically Flexible All-Purpose Noun

My Hometown is Not Known for Criminal Masterminds

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Cleveland carjacking suspect captured because he can't drive stick shift

Lenten Wave #2

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"Hope, detached from faith and untempered by the evidence of history, is a dangerous asset" - Roger Scruton.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Yep, Still Missing Australia

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Australian man pleads guilty to driving motorized cooler while drunk

Lenten Wave #1

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There is a venerable surfing expression: "You learn something from every wave".  Whether the wave is big or small, junky or sub...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

I'm Especially Interested in Those That Remind Me Where I Left My Car Keys

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Maps in the head: How animals navigate their way around provides clues to how the brain forms, stores and retrieves memories

Is It Good? Well, It's Readable.

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Against Readability

Not Just Firehouses

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Firehouses Raise Alarm Over Lack of Young Recruits There is also a conspicuous absence of the young on municipal committees, in fund-raisi...

The Photo is an Example of Neither

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The Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by a murderer who described himself to the FBI as an atheist who believed in science [o...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Once Again, The Coracle is Prescient

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We profiled Eric Hoffer last summer. From the Wall Street Journal: “Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loa...

In Some Cases, There Might Be Nothing Left

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Free Our Churches From the Ugly and Stupid I have seen and heard enough. We must get rid of everything ugly and stupid from our churches, ...

America Go Crazy

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But something important unites them. Both embrace a politics of fear over reason, fueled by a sense of siege. Both cleave to an unfounded b...