Day: May 25, 2009

Remembering the fallen

This Memorial Day will be marked in many different ways across America, some traditional, some brand new. In addition to local parades, memorial services and civic observances, there are a growing number of specialized websites that are creating a virtual memorial to the men and women who have lost their lives in the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Good historians

Bede seems to have two major purposes in writing his History. . . . First of all, he is desirous of writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People just as his title indicates, and this involves such concerns as chronological development, comprehensive treatment, fairness, accuracy, and attention to sources and to details that have usually been the objective goals and characteristics of good historians, but always under the subjective influence of his own perspectives and within the limitations under which he worked.

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Christian vocation and The Cowboy Junkies

As I look back now some twenty years from the time when I began to really consider “my future,” as one so often does in college, I can recall a number of these moments when God slipped into my thoughts. One of them involved a band who I heard play in Raleigh on the campus of N.C. State.

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