Monthly Archives: June 2016
The boy has a stay at home dad. Mom is ill, often absent, sometimes for treatment. The boy’s last name is the same as his dad’s. Mom’s is something different. Father’s Day was a blast, lots of siblings and cousins and a day at the pool. That is, until the boy face-planted on some rocks and needed stitches. One efficient emergency room trip and some stitches later, father and son were back at poolside, relaxing. The son was smiling, even…..
The boy stole something he craved. His mom was livid. “Why?” “Why would you do this when you know it is wrong? You are grounded until you can explain it to me.” He may be grounded a very long time. He rarely if ever had seen the inside of a church. His mom doesn’t find God useful, and considers God’s tastes a bit bloody. The devil is relegated to an entertainment zone, not feared as real. In past generations, the…..
When we stumble on a painting, who’s painter we do not know, do we attribute the work to the paints? To the canvas? No. The painter may be unknown and unknowable but for the work, but we do not doubt the work was created. In fact, the modern painters usually sign their work, and so sometimes can know a name, even if we do not know much else. As a child, I knew this painter. So I can tell you…..
Hopes and dreams don’t matter, only obedience to the rules in the scripture. Not. It’s not even scriptural and don’t fall for it. Why? 1. There’s a lot of rules in scripture and like all rules they require ethical application in light of circumstance. Jesus taught this over and over again to the Pharisees in stories (e.g., Luke 15) and in his actions. A wonderful book on how to apply in the business world is The Taming of the Shrewd…..
One of attributes of human language our writing systems barely reflect is tone. Roger Williams observed there was another layer to the indigenous languages he was attempting to capture in that there was not just sound but pitch involved. He never believed he captured all of it. Much of the intonation level information is thought be lost, extinct or reconstructed. The parts of language that are not written phonetically tend to change rapidly between population groups, and that leads to…..