Monthly Archives: December 2016
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Steven R. Covey I invite you to come on a journey through the Bible with me — though I do not promise to finish in one year. This study will have less context switching intra-day than the traditional one year plan and many recordings to augment the reading; it will be for hearing as well as reading. – A note about the recordings: We need conservatives to preserve what we have already learned, and…..
My pen pal in Bangladesh, a girl aged fourteen at the time, wrote to me about seeing visions in the shining drops of dew on a cold morning as she went to collect water. She’d found a place, as a new Christian and a single woman following Christ, heaven interlocked with earth. God is gracious with His gifts. – Western tradition can make heaven sound far away, in the sky, or now that we’ve mapped the sky in some other…..
Real peace doesn’t cut off discussion by refusal to listen. Real peace comes from finding the common ground we can, while respecting the differences we cannot ourselves close. Peace implies good will to men and women. – Complaining about and working to prevent fake news is popular just now, and may well be needed. We also need to call out the mainstream news media when it seems to incite polarity. Susan Chira is an editor for one of my favorite…..
The recent dinosaur tail found in Amber gave a whole new perspective to the development and design of feathers. More commonly it is smaller creatures that get consumed in amber and preserved. Amber preservation is incredible in that it gives a crystalline glimpse into the past that includes hard to preserve soft tissues. In human life, relationships — both near and far — operate like like amber. They enable a pure if often small memory that includes the soft tissues of feeling and relationship……
Yes, Roger Williams separated church and state in Rhode Island, but the “wall of separation” that Williams mentioned is not Thomas Jefferson’s! That would be the wrong wall. Williams’s message is more accurately: TEAR DOWN THIS WALL, Mr. Cotton! In short, while Roger Williams did implement a practical separation of church and state he did not call what he built a wall. He called what Mr. Cotton built in Boson a wall of separation and that is not the wall…..