Recently I posted a piece about “beauty” and asked if my readers had some thoughts on the subject. I did receive a few in email and comments, but not a lot. I was…
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We have a tendency—perhaps because we are around only so briefly—to characterize history in “ages”; time Before Christ, or the Dark Ages, the Enlightenment, The Modern Era. There were indeed,…
On the morning of August 17, 1918, Private Vito Vitelli, of the American 21st company of the 151st Depot Brigade was lying in a foxhole in the Argonne Forest when…
Random ruminations on a sort of lunacy I can just see myself, four decades younger, in what I fancy as my Greek God Period (actually I was lying on the…
Again, yesterday it was announced in the news that an American drone predator had killed several Pakistani civilians along with some Al Qaeda insurgents. The ratio is the subject of…
Friends sometimes ask me why I have returned so many times to live in Hong Kong. It’s not the Cantonese food. As I age, it is less and less the…
And soon it won’t do any good to repent. We humans seem to delight in doomsday scenarios, and that’s probably because we always seem to conjure them in a…
Students from science teacher Evangeline Suggs’ class were given the assignment of going out and finding the best examples of the Lord’s “Intelligent Design.” The top three examples were:…
We are still in the Jurassic of brain research, at least compared with what we know about the rest of our physiology, of which there is also a great deal…
Remember when all those missionaries used to go to remote, undeveloped places to win new souls for Christ? In addition to all those shiny beads and other material goodies,…
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