An Ode to the English Plural We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of…
According the Associated Press out of London, England, fantastic fibbers gathered at a remote pub in northwestern England on a recent Thursday in November to compete for the title of world’s biggest liar. The contest was held at the Bridge Inn in the town of Santon Bridge. Contestants had five minutes to impress the judges with a whopping but convincing…
In 2 Samuel, chpater 7 we read that the Lord gave King David rest from all his surrounding enemies. David thought this would be a perfect opportunity to build a temple for the Lord since, “I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” (v. 2) Nathan the prophet tells David, “What…
All Saints Day Text: “These are the one who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Revelation 7:14 The Feast of All Saints goes back to ancient Rome. The Pantheon had been built in the year 27 BC to honor…
A Better Place Everyone is mighty, and everyone is weak; Everyone is an artist, and everyone’s a bureaucrat; Everyone is a good guy, and everybody is a rat; Everyone is beautiful, and everyone is base; But you made this a better place. Everyone is sacred, and everyone is just a bag of flesh; Everyone is a…
I had the opportunity recently to view a work of art that was based on the fascinating Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Pisa (or Pisano?) who was known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian…
Let me illustrate how I see the importance of Christian doctrine. I have two children. One lives in a city a few hundred miles away and the other lives overseas. It occured to me that when I go to visit the child that lives a few hundred miles away I pack very differently than when I go to visit the child…
Why not start with Martin Luther? In his 1518 Heidelberg Theses Luther points out that God’s love is fundamentally different from human love. God’s love does not find its object but creates its object. Human love finds its object, We love people or things because we find in them something loveable, something attractive. God does…
It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby carriage Was wired to the radio These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The…
People talk about a media bias in terms of the reporting that is done. The bias happens before one word of reporting is done. The bias happens in which stories are selected as being worthy of reporting on. One story noted a doubling of the number of same-sex households in Minnesota. Sounds impressive. It also…
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