Rowland Croucher
What is time?
(From my scientist-friend Chris): 1. What is time? In standard physics it is the 4th dimension. If that is true, why can’t we move along it totally freely, as we can with our 3 known space dimensions? If we do, you come up with the paradox that you could kill your father, and hence cease […]
The Public Meaning of the Gospels (N T Wright)
*Sightings* 6/16/08 Returning to the Gospels — Martin E. Marty “Public religion,” *Sightings’ *constant theme, includes “public theology.” This week *The Christian Century* (June 12: see full article below) offers a challenge on that theme from the Anglican Bishop of Durham, N. T. Wright, as noted a New Testament scholar as is being read and […]
Welcoming homosexuals
Then there was a church which had a problem: Every Sunday people in wheelchairs from a local hospice came to church en-masse. The wheelchairs were untidy, they blocked up the isles, the wheelchair users took ages to get into position, stopping others getting to their seats quickly, then took ages to get out again at […]
Funeral and the Dog
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary man walking a pit bull on […]
Another Laughing Baby
http://www.googlyfoogly.com/videos/Cute-Baby-Laugh.html (YouTube has several more…)
Freedom (Richard Rohr)
Jesus has a different understanding of personal freedom. Freedom is not the capacity to be what you are not, but the capacity to be fully who you already are, to develop your inherent self as much as God allows. Spiritual and true freedom is wanting to do what you have to do to become who […]
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr “Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, […]
Stupefied by the info superhighway
Andrew Sullivan | June 16, 2008 THERE’S something I didn’t know: Friedrich Nietzsche used a typewriter. Many of those terse aphorisms and impenetrable reveries were banged out on an 1882 Malling-Hansen Writing Ball. And a friend of his at the time noticed a change in the German philosopher’s style as soon as he moved from […]
Obama Discusses Duties of Fatherhood
Monday, June 16, 2008; Page A07 SENATOR’S SERMON Calling himself “an imperfect father,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) spoke of the need for more African American men to live up to their responsibilities in a Father’s Day sermon yesterday. Obama said that too many black fathers are “missing from too many lives and too many homes,” […]
Shower Curtains ‘Toxic’?
That ‘new shower curtain smell’ gives off toxic chemicals, study finds An environmental organization finds high concentrations of dangerous chemicals in shower curtains sold at major stores. By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 13, 2008 Vinyl shower curtains sold at major retailers across the country emit toxic chemicals that have been linked […]
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