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Daniel Dennett: Wrong About God, Wrong About Man Daniel Dennett, the well-known evangelizer for atheism, recently made a prediction which may be the most thoroughly mistaken one I’ve ever encountered. Anybody can be wrong about future events, and most people are. But Dennett is wrong about fundamental facts in the here-and-now. He predicts that religion…
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I once got sick after eating Mexican food, and it was a couple of years before I could even stand the smell of it (happily, that did not last). I was the same way about Philip Glass’s music for a while. I got off to a bad start with him by listening to The Photographer…
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When I dropped this for Lent I wasn’t sure that I would pick it up again, as it had become something of a burden. But I think I’ll give it another try. Part of the burden was that I had, more or less arbitrarily, decided to write and post it along with the Sunday journal.…
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…with whom I hope to spend a lot of time this weekend. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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From Fox News: “Microscopic Peach Fuzz May Be Evidence of Martians.” No link. You would only be disappointed. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Last night we watched this 1996 film version, directed by Trevor Nunn, of one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, and my wife and I both thought it was wonderful (we don’t always agree). It’s very lavishly produced, almost to a fault—one could argue that it’s overdone, but for me the richness of it succeeds very…
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…you should read this review of a new work by John Tavener (via Mere Comments via "Mr. Grano," whom I take to be Rob Grano). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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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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