God created humankind male and female. Each sex has a complementary role to the other and have different voices, a beautiful harmony, while both are fully human in essence. Sadly, evil people use differences to destroy, steal, and kill. When the female and the male voice are not expressed in the fullness of a life or society, then we do not hear the full voice of the Image of God. If a man, it is vital to think as a woman and... Read more
What if we turned from academic theology to “common theology?” Would we find intriguing ideas in the great conversation of a diversity of theology minds? Dr. Eric Holloway thinks so and he wishes us to think with him. Dr. Eric Holloway has a great texts degree, a MSc in Computer Science at the Air Force Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Engineering at Baylor University. Dr. Holloway: What if theology were a knowledge based discipline like philosophy, science... Read more
Thank God for the United States that liberated so many people in the Cold War. We remember those who died for our country in the long Cold War against Soviet tyranny and helped free Eastern Europe, while keeping South Korea, Taiwan and other countries independent. Thank God for those who tried to give the Vietnamese the same chance. Recently I sat with a man whose uncle was sent to a camp and beaten for not having communist views. The uncle... Read more
Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can get almost any result from almost any set of data. There are at least sixty-six books in the Scriptural canon, most Christians think there are more, and in such a broad set of books, if one is determined to find something there, codes for the end times, Free Masonry, egalitarianism in religious roles, then sufficiently clever people can. Advocacy scholarship always wishes to dwell on... Read more
Our dog got a treat, not just a treat, but a treat from Rochester.* Hope, gone to the home of our alma mater, where we met in high school, and met again after college, knew who needed a reward. Nessie, the Wonder Dog, missed Hope. Zweigles, maker of these treats, also makes delicious “hots.” When I first came to Rochester from civilization (West Virginia), I was unsure what a “hot” was, red or white. Zweigles taught me the difference: hotdogs... Read more
I thought the concert would be glorious, but the music was hard work. Let me tell about an experience in learning mostly failed by me, but where a few gleams of joy over time made all worthwhile. This might encourage someone else to try the same: hard music, new to you, played live, and learned through meditation. All this began on never ending daytime in Russia. We walked to the Opera House together, hand in hand, in Saint Petersburg, a... Read more
Two principles regarding treats: A man can live without cake and cannot live on cake alone. We cannot eat the cake and still have cake. This is fortunate for us, since treats are rare for most people in the world just now. In Paradise, where there is a party without end, if cake is your jam, you get cake. Here and now, nobody can be sure that cake is coming. For daily bread, we pray, the necessities of life. Why?... Read more
Music matters. Music matters too much to leave to the professionals. This thought, more Plato than mine, inspired a key leader at our School and College to write. Here is Lauren Turner, director of Fine Arts! Since moving to the Houston area almost five years ago, I have learned that Houston has what is referred to as a “rainy season”. This rainy season takes place somewhere between January and December of any given calendar year and its trademark is... Read more
Do we live in the end of an age? Yesterday, Mom, wise woman, said: “There are many signs of the end the age, not perhaps the End, but an end. And, of course, one end will be the End. Maybe this one will be the End.” If you are not given to Christianity, then eschatology, a discussion of the End of things may make little sense. If like two and one half billions of people, you are a Christian, then... Read more
Sixty years ago when time to go home from the chemical factory, you needed a shower. Dupont and Carbide* did not want the troubles going home, though if you left your car outside regularly, the paint could get harmed from the air. That was a downside of the Kanawha River Valley. The upside were the people. Evidently, back in the day of my grands, as the men would head to the shower someone would get smacked with a rolled up... Read more
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