To other readers. One of my “resolutions for 2009 is to complete a book dedicated to my five grandchildren. It’s tentatively titled THE BABO GOSPELS (“Babo” is the sobriquet my…
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I got out my DVD of Meet John Doe after watching the “debate” between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. In the 1941 Frank Capra film a cynical newspaper reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) creates…
Historically, there is probably a good case that that a Jewish baby boy, Yeshua bar Yusef, was born some time in the winter of 4 B.C. [1] He seems to have…
It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one that I haven’t seen tree dozen times,…
I would hazard the guess that the least evoked New Testament passage one is likely to hear these days, especially in those glitzy megachurches with preachers in Armani suits, is…
For all their support of the teaching of creationism or intelligent design in school science curricula the political Right are fiercer Darwinists than the Left. Social Darwinists. To…
Nothing quite triggers memory like aromas. Christmas memories are replete with them: pine wreaths, bayberry candles, a roasting Christmas turkey or goose, incense at midnight mass (or kids throwing up…
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, Christmas,Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and all that. But also Bowl Games. Bowl games, particularly the Rose Bowl, instantly evoke a reverie of lying…
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