Thoughts worth sharing with the world.
CBS News ran a story in August 2017 about Iceland’s method of making Down syndrome “disappear”. MSN picked it up. How abominably abhorrent is this discussion of Iceland killing almost all its babies with certain genetic disorders? Let us count the Read More …
You see this kind of thing show up in your Facebook feeds from time to time, as I do: If you bother to read the whole thing, you may spend the next 3 seconds digesting it, then scroll to the Read More …
“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) These were the words Jesus cried out in his final minutes on the cross, recorded in Matthew 27 and Mark 15. First-century Jews didn’t have bibles neatly Read More …
This beauty came across my Facebook feed recently. (likely original source: http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/the_exorcist_20150927) I had to comment. Will we ever see a cartoon depicting the pope exorcising a donkey? I doubt it, even though the donkey represents the American political party most Read More …
A Facebook friend shared this post recently. This meme is an image devoid of a reference to an original source, but a simple web search turned up this. Here’s the text in case the page gets lost in the future: Read More …
As I watched the Red Sox edge out the Athletics last night, I noticed, again, the curious necklaces some MLB players wear: The Phiten Titanium Necklaces. Some time ago, I ran across an article about them on Scienceline, which may Read More …
On the subject of the article How Do Christians Become Conservative? by Mike Lux, I had some thoughts I believe the world would do well to read, so I figured I’d make a couple posts about it. The first one Read More …
So, a link to this article was posted by a Facebook friend… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/how-do-christians-become_b_570361.html The title of the article is “How Do Christians Become Conservative?”, and the meta description that Facebook extracted to display is “Jesus may not have been primarily Read More …
Back in 2008, a friend of mine posted on his personal blog a blurb about a Theological Worldview Quiz which piqued my interest somewhat. (Update now years later: neither the blog post nor the quiz seem to exist any longer, Read More …
I got another one yesterday… you know, the e-mail that tells you that if you don’t forward it to everyone you know, God will be disappointed with you. First of all, I’d like you to know that I am a Read More …