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• Dark Sight

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor is a name about which I wish to learn more. Although Time magazine predictably runs a religious-themed issue around Easter, the year’s cove... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Take a PAAS

  

  Like so much of life, PAAS Easter Egg coloring kits were the result of an accident. To be more specific, a chemical accident in New Jersey, something which is... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pair of Docs

  

  I’m not planning any trips anytime soon, but if I were I’d give Pair of Docs Travel a look. The founders of Pair of Docs are friends of mine who’ve also landed... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ham Awry

  

  Ham, in the movie Noah, is a conflicted figure. I felt a slight chill, I’ll have to admit, when the carnivore Tubal-Cain asked him his name, reminiscent as it i... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Lost Forest

  

  Asherah has, from lack of new material, fallen into a quiet retirement among the gods. For a while there no shortage of new books appeared, including my first,... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Plague

  

  Sitting on the bus next to some guy with a consumptive cough may not be the best place to read Plagues and Peoples. But William H. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Better Watch Out

  

  Among the more intriguing mythologies of Noah, the movie, is the presence of the “Transformer-like” Watchers. The more biblically literate of the film’s... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Roman Undead

  

  Like most monster movie fans, I enjoy a zombie film now and then. I’ve even heard some very sophisticated people commenting positively on Shaun of the Dead. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disconnect the Dots

  

  In the on-going loss of touch between academia and the world outside, we forever hear of the triumphal march of secularism. Academics are often loath to see... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Floaters and Swimmers

  Noah seems to have found a renewed audience these days. Nothing like a major motion picture to make even one of the most famous biblical characters even more... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heaven Can Wait

  

  “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” So the jingle goes. Or went. I’ve only met my upstairs neighbors once. Twice now. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sowing the Wind

  

  On May 31 in 1985, I was working at a church camp outside Uniontown, Pennsylvania when some severe storms rolled through the area. I had trouble sleeping throug... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heavenly Beings

  

  Religious tolerance suggests that it’s less important what you believe than it is that you believe. After all, where you are born—socioeconomically as well as... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paying Goliath

  

  A friend pointed me to the story of David and Goliath. Well, actually, it was the Malcolm Gladwell story of David and Goliath. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clash of the Watchers

  

  I don’t know about you, but I think I got gypped with my Bible. I have just come out of Noah where I saw amazing sights and a seriously troubled Noah to whom Go... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rocket Cats

  

  A few weeks ago the Internet’s attention was captured (if such a thing is possible) by rocket cats. Apparently the brain-child of sixteenth-century artillery... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Making Sense

  

  Science is more than meets the eye. Even since I was a child I’ve tried to follow what I can of science without a real microscope or telescope and a doctorate i... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Inhabit Eden

  

  Nashotah House, although now a name recognized by only a handful of mostly disgruntled Episcopalians, used to have a name in higher education. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• They Call It Civilization

  

  An interesting article about the Assyrians appeared in last week’s Guardian, On Art blog. The piece by Jonathan Jones, describes a piece of ancient Assyrian... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Apocalypse Then

  

  Sometimes everything blows up in your face. Literally. Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa has been on my reading list for years. Boys seem to have a fascination with... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY