Mary is the woman of Advent and Christmas.A creche without Mary is missing the main supporting character. It is unthinkable.Mary was the mother of God and the temptation is to stop there. It doesn’t get much greater than that does it?It does and Jesus says so in Luke 11:27As he said these . . . . Continue Reading »
This is unbelievable. Apparently the big deal in the “hide the decline” infamous email had to do with what tree ring shows about climate change. The Daily Mail checked the graphs produced by the UN’s IPPC, and it shows they did just that: When the tree rings (in green) showed . . . . Continue Reading »
The entire Obamacare saga has been the most dishonest, reckless, and foolish bit of legislating I think I have ever witnessed. It is a mess, and it seems quite obvious that our leaders don’t care that it is a mess. The problem—and particularly, Harry Reid’ s part . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not a huge fan of Thomas Sowell, It isn’t that I dislike him particularly, it’s just that he doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies. Sowell apparently has a new book out, however, that raises some issues worth pondering. Sowell believes that intellectuals are hurting . . . . Continue Reading »
Saint Chad’s Progressive Episcopal ChurchOffice of the Canon: the Right Reverend Dr. Dale OwensFontana By the SeaSermon for the Third Sunday of AdventOur text for today is from Frosty the Snowman. I must warn you that what follow is shocking, Glenn-Beck-head-exploding shocking.Global warming . . . . Continue Reading »
Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but I last night listened with barely-perceptible unease to the last “Marriage of Figaro” at the Metropolitan this season; this morning I had to play through half of the piano score to get ‘it out of my ears. And yet there was nothing really . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s an informative and interesting discussion over at the Front Porch Republic between Drs. Wilson and Scott on matters of economics and foreign policy that is worthy of our attention. . . . . Continue Reading »
01 Track 1Here is a play I wrote for Christmas . . . and I thought you might enjoy hearing the start of it . . . obviously this is more than a bit tongue in cheek. In the end the play will involve Brownies, who do what angels cannot or will not, and a time traveling Scotsman.Yikes!Here is the . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting study has found that the children of deaf parents who can hear oppose the right of deaf people to select embryos for deafness. From the abstract.This study...is the first of its kind examining the views of hearing children of deaf adults towards preimplantation genetic diagnosis and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his current Evangel bio, Frank Turk lists one of his pastimes as “internet mayhem.” As evidenced by the current offense taken to him by Mark Olsen and various commenters at Evangel, he obviously hasn’t lost his spiritual gift in that matter. However, as he read through . . . . Continue Reading »
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