Month: June 2010

Slugs and suffering

On the eve of Pentecost in gorgeous Northern Californian spring weather, we were in the midst of dinner when my wife noticed a small slug munching silently on a potted succulent outside on our apartment deck. Before we had thought things through, we were encouraging our six-year-old son in the age-old biology experiment involving slugs and salt.

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Resolving conflict

“When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.” And Paul does not say, What? Have I not a right to be believed after so many signs? but he complied for their sakes. . . .

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Jesus with a halo in utero?

In Britain this December, you’ll be able to see the baby Jesus in a simulation of what his own ultrasound would’ve looked like. If, you know, Mary’s OB-GYN in Nazareth had the technology. It even has a halo!

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More noxious mail from England

One hopes, though, that TEC will send her representatives anyway, reminding Williams that he has no authority, nor does the Church of England, to ‘withdraw’ memberships that do not belong to them. This approach would compel Williams’ own Lambeth hierarchy to choose either to act in accord with Williams’ efforts toward a bizarre new paradigm or to respect the true limits of both their own authority and his.

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God meets everyone who walks

There is One Being, who knows Himself and sees Himself.

He is like the sea, in that all creation moves in Him.

As the waters beset the fish in all their movements,

The Creator is clad with everything which is made,

Both great and small.

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