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August 18, 2019
Seymour’s Cone: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Seymour’s Cone: Weapon of Mass Destruction “Because of the area of surgery, he needs the cone for the entire fourteen days.” Closing my eyes with inaudible,OH NO!, I said, “Can you imagine him with this thing?” My husband John had started asking just how long we would need to keep this cone on him the […]
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August 11, 2019
It Is Good For Us To Be Here
It is good for us to be here: Transfiguration The three men-ordinary fishermen- are invited by Christ up to the peak of the mountain to pray, we are told in Luke. The Transfiguration is the last miracle performed by Christ marking the beginning of the end of his days on earth. For many days,perhaps weeks, […]
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August 4, 2019
Tears of Rain: Blade Runner
Tears of Rain: Blade Runner I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. There was a time I had memorized those […]
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July 28, 2019
CS Lewis and Karl Rahner
CS Lewis and Karl Rahner Most likely they never met. But the atheist turned Anglican Christian CS Lewis and the Roman Catholic Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner perceived their God in radically similar ways. Both men served as apologists for their faith causing more than a little consternation in the minds of more rule bound colleagues. […]
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July 21, 2019
Mary Called Magdalene: A Portrait
Mary Called Magdalene is a woman alternately thought to be prostitute, mystic, secret lover of Jesus, and the apostle who reached higher levels than did any of the male apostles. Throughout the ages, Mary beckons both believers and non. Her relationship with Jesus is a curious one, implying an intimacy that our age can conceive […]
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July 14, 2019
Environmental Activist and Oxymoron
Environmental Activist and Oxymoron There was a time, many years ago, when I was more of a radical environmental activist than most people I knew. And would not have conceived of a phrase like environmental activist and oxymoron in a single phrase. No more. The first part of the phrase carries the heft of religion. […]
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July 7, 2019
Defining Freedom: The Old/New Lure of Socialism
Defining freedom: The old/new lure of socialism On this Independence Day weekend, taking a few moments to consider defining freedom – for ourselves, our lives and our choices-seems fitting. I find this old/new lure of socialism antithetical to what we stand for in this country founded under God. But this is clearly not so for […]
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June 30, 2019
Forbidden Fruit and Its Consequences
Forbidden fruit and its consequences This painting, Sarah Leading Abraham to Hagar by seventeenth century painter Matthias Stom is displayed in the Gimaldegalerie in Berlin. Even a quick look at the figures portrayed by the artist even briefly, conveys something unseemly, even odious. All too evident is the purpose of the intrusion of the elderly […]
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June 23, 2019
The Cover: Does It Matter?
The Cover: Does It Matter? The short answer is yes, book covers hugely influence our decision to buy or pass. In fact, a whopping eighty percent of readers and bloggers say their decision to buy a book is determined by the cover. For best selling authors like Lee Child, Dean Koontz, Harlen Coben, David Baldacci, […]
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June 16, 2019
Procrastination Revisited: Or Justification, Which Is It?
Procrastination Revisited: Or Justification, which is it? Well I am past the first 10,000 words of My Name is Saul, but just barely. And June is halfway gone. By now, I am usually at the halfway point of my newest book and with Saul I am not even close. Why is that? There are a […]
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