Wealth in the Wilderness; Masada, En Gedi, and the Refuge of Kings
Last Friday we visited the Judean desert. For those not familiar with the name, this refers to the desert region in the southern part of Israel (but not the far southern part). This is not the...
View ArticleWhy Tony Bennett gets an F
How Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction has weakened and warped our schools.
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t God Give More Proof?
In his book, Contact, Carl Sagan satirically asks why God doesn’t place a glowing cross in the sky at night to serve as irrefutable proof of Jesus’ resurrection. One could just as well ask why God...
View ArticleThe Day with No Name
The strands of O Sacred Head Now Wounded from yesterday’s Good Friday Service still waft in and out of my memory. The opening notes of tomorrow’s Christ Arose have not yet been played. I live, for a...
View ArticleDoes Pro-choice Philosophy Justify Infanticide?
A discussion of whether the values and beliefs of the pro-choice movement are also able to be used in arguing for infanticide, and the implications of the answer.
View ArticleMade Like Him (by John Oxenham)
We drop a seed into the ground, A tiny, shapeless thing, shriveled and dry, And, in the fullness of its time, is seen A form of peerless beauty, robed and crowned. Beyond the pride of any earthly...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Kings
Today was our first full day in Israel. We actually arrived yesterday afternoon, but it was almost 5:00 by the time we made it to the hotel in Tel Aviv, so all we had time for was a sunset dip in the...
View ArticleAn Ancient Village, Really good Falafels, and a Journey to the End of the World
I time-travelled today. Actually, I time travel all the time, but usually at a rate of one second a second. Today was different. First, we travelled back in time 2000 years to a place called Nazareth...
View ArticleTooling around the Galilee
We spent the last few days in the region once described as Galilee. This is an area around the sea of Galilee where Jesus spent most of his ministry. The sea of Galilee is not a sea, of course. It is...
View ArticleJerusalem Journal
Tuesday was our first full day in Jerusalem. We started out by travelling to the mount of Olives. This is a hill overlooking the city, now filled with houses and buildings. The words “mount’ or...
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