March 2008
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The Sword Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. —Matthew 10:34 There’s a certain sort of somewhat educated, yet substantially ignorant, person whose condescension toward Christianity and Christians tries my patience more than open hostility. I’m thinking of the person, often describing…
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A few days ago I made a melancholy, if not morbid, remark about time and loss to a young woman. I realized immediately, but of course too late, that it was rather a heavy thing to lay on a young person, and was reminded of this poem by John Crowe Ransom. It was an odd…
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A few follow-ups to the paleo-future post below: The sad and creepy world of Ray Kurzweil, a technological genius who in all likelihood is going to die a very unhappy man. A couple of obituaries, here and here, for Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was probably the last of the great sci-fi writers who was formed…
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It was supposed to be here by now. Where are the domed climate-controlled cities? The self-maintaining houses? The undersea resorts? The satellite hotels? The intelligence pill? And most of all, where is my four-hour work day? I love stuff like this—images of the future as it was imagined in the past. There’s even a name…
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Due to various problems with my lightondarkwater.com email address, I'm switching to gmail. New address is maclin.horton (at) gmail.com. Or click on the "view profile" button and then on the "email me" button. By the way, spammers are a very low form of vermin. Our network administrator tells me that we receive on average 1,200,000…
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Believe It Or Not I think sometimes of a conversation in the mid-1970s that helped push me toward a decision when I was hearing the call to Christian faith, but was still undecided as to what it meant and what I would do about it. My friend was an intelligent and educated Christian (and probably…
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Holy Saturday is an odd time, intermediate and suspended. There's nothing happening liturgically (at least in this diocese) between the afternoon of Good Friday and the Easter Vigil late Saturday. I’m never quite sure what to do with myself. Should I go about my business as if it were any other Saturday? Presumably one should…
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