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• Quoth Hardy

  

  There are days when the quote from an author is the best thing to happen to me. You probably know those kinds of days—days when there’s nothing really to stay u... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Your Parents’ Bible

  

  As someone always interested in origins, I reflect on how I’ve ended up the way I have. I mean, who plans to end up a Bibles editor? In the grand scheme of a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Saint Lent

  

  Photo credit: Andreas F. Borchert, WikicommonsLent, among the denominations that observe it, is intended as a time of intense reflection. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Culpability Defined

  

  What seems to be lacking in the United States government is any realization that actions have consequences. While in Christchurch, New Zealand at least 49 peopl... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Rules of Waiting

  

  Tom Petty must’ve been a commuter. On a winter’s morning after switching to Daylight Saving Time, waiting is the indeed the hardest part. For a bus, that is.... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• If It Itches

  

  The problem, or rather a problem, of growing up Fundamentalist is taking things literally. I suppose we’re all born naive realists, learning only later that... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Checkmate

  

  March has been designated as Women’s History Month. Since history has been written, well, historically by males, women have frequently been excluded. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Learn and Let Learn

  

  My wife often works weekends. Generally this involves trips to New Jersey, and since my unconventional schedule means we see each other awake only a brief time... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mostly Clear

  

  “Chiasm” is a literary technique based on the name of the Greek letter chi, shaped like a latinate X. The idea is fairly simple and generally resembles a... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Time Saving

  

  As we suffer through another pointless Daylight Saving Time, I’m thinking of rituals that have lost their meaning. Life is full of them. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Long Journey

  

  Although it may be only a venial sin, overwriting is nevertheless an offense. As a professor I read many papers from students who had great difficulty clarifyin... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Price Is Wrong

  

  The costs for academic books can seem criminal. Don’t get me wrong; I work in academic publishing and I know the reasons—or at least the reasons publishers... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lingua Franca

  

  The history of Israel and its neighbors has been appropriated deeply in the mindset of western cultures. Both the British and Americans, for example, have... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sustainability

  

  There comes a time, it seems to me, when each generation realizes it’s made a mess of things. Well, at least the thinking members of a generation do. I mentione... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frankly

  

  Even in the 1960s, if I recall, Dracula and Frankenstein really weren’t that scary. I mean this in the sense of the 1931 Universal movies that began the entire... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Symbolic Delays

  

  Weather affects more than the Psalms, of course. With all the hype of the latest winter storm things were closed or delayed before any accumulation even started. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Strange Ending

  

  Perhaps it’s from growing up as a biblical literalist, but I’ll probably always have problems with post-modernism. You see, when you’re taught as a kid that... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stranger and Stranger

  

  Like many fans of the X-Files and the early years of Sleepy Hollow, I’ve fallen into the Stranger Things orbit. While I don’t have a Netflix account, I have... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How Many, Now?

  

  One thing you can say for the Bible—it’s been interpreted six ways to Sunday. This point was brought home to me in reading Michael Willett Newhart’s “My Name... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christianity Sans Christ

  

  Pieter Breughel the elder“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” (Please pardon the sexist translation, but the King James is in... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY