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Some people think it foolish to ask God for little things, but I do not think it matters at all what one asks for, so long as in asking for anything one recognizes one's own dependence on God…. Sometimes a tiny childish thing brings home to us more than a big thing the intense love which can…
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Weekend Music Yes, this is the song I had originally intended to post last week. I had a strange experience with it a couple of weekends ago. It was Sunday morning, and I had an online "radio" program playing. This song came on, and although I had heard it before and liked it, for…
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A bumper sticker (well, actually, a rear-window sticker) that I saw today: "Oh no! Not another learning experience!
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Via Image magazine on Facebook, here are two articles by the same person, Lillian Daniels, a liberal Protestant (United Church of Christ) minister: You Can't Make This Up and Spiritual But Not Religious? Stop Boring Me. Surprisingly, the second one is at the Huffington Post. It's just a few paragraphs; the first is more substantial. She's amusing in places:…
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The obsessive hatred of many on the left for Sarah Palin is sick. I'm referring to a soon-to-be-published book of gossip, of which many salacious details have already been revealed. You've probably heard of it. If not, you can easily find out. It gives me a tiny bit of satisfaction not to identify it or…
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It's leaning because the ground was eroded under it by storms last winter. I didn't think it was going to survive the summer, but its roots must be deeper than I thought.
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I suspect that most of us are either (1) the sort of person who is willing to drive somewhat out of his way to save 5 or 10 cents per gallon on gas or (2) the sort of person who suggests that the amount saved may not cover the cost of getting there, or in…
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Sunday Night Journal — September 11, 2011 It often seems to me that no one of genuinely conservative temperament and instincts is ever entirely at ease in the mental atmosphere of the United States. As has been pointed out many times, the whole spirit of the place is fundamentally progressive, and a major component of…
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Halfway between the September 11, 2001, and today–in September of 2006–I posted this assessment of the event and its consequences. It still represents my view pretty accurately. I can't quite put my finger on the reasons, but I keep thinking–no, I should say I keep feeling–that there is something a bit unseemly in the ceremonies and rememberances…
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See item #7 on this list of formerly popular dead-or-dying web sites: TypePad and Blogger. TypePad is where this blog is hosted. It does seem pretty obvious that Twitter and Facebook have grown at the expense of blogging. However, there is something amiss with the picture painted by this article. It says that "the streamlined blogging…
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