Stick figures can no longer hold the sheer expressive force of the knights. Behold! The advent of the solid form, on which the St. George shield and crusader helmet can be displayed. On the left of the image is the shield, while the right side of the page (by the skinny leg) is a fat sword.
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Jesus says in Luke 16:17, "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void."
Other translations say, instead of "one dot," things like "one stroke" or, as the KJV has it, "a tittle."
The greek word used here for dot/stroke/tittle is keraia, literally a little horn. Most translations take this to be a mark that actually distin...
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After toiling away in the mines of academe, there's nothing so refreshing as a good wacky book, and one of my favorites is Power of Will by Frank Channing Haddock (I can't verify his lifespan, but possibly 1853 - 1915).
Believe it or not, the whole thing's available online at mulitple locations of a new ageish sort (a good pdf version is here, a subdivided html present...
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Some questions drawn from Torrey thought on Aristotle at this weekends marathon reading of Aristotle with Professor Al Geier of the University of Rochester are now posted on Eidos for the two people in America who care.
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Take a trivial example of law breaking: downloading music off the Internet. Before Itunes, if you wanted obscure music by your favorite group and did not live in a major metro area, the easiest, and often the only way, to get that music was with swapping software. It was illegal, but hard to feel guilty about downloading a blue grass version of "Amazing Grace” from a group th...
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I have been avoiding thinking too heavily on the immigration issue. Mostly due to the fact that I am in the middle of that final grind that comes before the end of the university term. In the last few days I have spent some time reading and listening to people discuss the immigration issue. What amazes me most about the discussions is how vitriolic, polarizing , and incohere...
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CortaSlim Religion: the Dan Brown Scam
You know it is too good to be true, but you want it to be real. Remember when you could not turn on the radio without hearing an ad for CortaSlim? It promised to strip off the pounds and as someone who struggles with weight, and hates his daily trip to the gym, it was very appealing.
It sounded so good that I knew it had to be a sca...
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A couple of months ago the House of Representatives was talking about legislation that would have made it a criminal act to provide humanitarian help to illegal immigrants. More Senatorial heads prevailed, which made charities and churches heave a sigh of relief. The immigration legislation process grinds on, with developments every day but no breakthroughs in sight. Who kno...
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Give George Bush credit. He is behaving in office in exactly the manner people always claim they wish a leader would. He is trying to lead, doing what he thinks is right without regard to those opinion polls. For that he has been labeled stubborn, stupid, and senseless of the damage he is doing to his own Republican Party.
Of course, George Bush is almost surely right about...
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Another G. K. Chesterton poem, and another Freddy illustration.
When we went hunting the Dragon
In the days when we were young,
We tossed the bright world over our shoulder
As bugle and baldrick slung;
Never was world so wild and fair
As what went by on the wind,
Never such fields of paradise
As the fields we left behind:
For this is the best of a rest for men
T...
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A sermon I preached at my home church, Grace Evangelical Free Church of La Mirada , on Sunday May 14, 2006. An mp3 of it will eventually be posted here.
(I started the sermon by taking out a camera and snapping pictures of the congregation left, right, and center, then pointing the camera up at the ceiling and getting a shot of that)
Thanks for bearing with me here. I...
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How can you tell your mother you love her without feeling foolish? I begin to say what my own mother means to me and I sound like a greeting card to myself. The Victorians had a vocabulary for loving mothers and not much ability to make fun of them. We are good at mocking, but very bad at sincere love. Long ago I learned that if I told people how I really feel about them that t...
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My thoughts on Sullivan are tainted by times spent on National Review’s blog “The Corner”. Pundits from Nation Review were often commenting on things that Andrew Sullivan had said, and he was often commenting on what they had said about him. I have noticed that the tone of Sullivan gets rather shrill when he is taking about the “political fundamentalists and social co...
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