ONE BENEFIT OF GEEZER-HOOD (and AARP officially welcomed me into that fellowship nearly 15 years ago) is that you’ve lived long enough to develop some perspective. You can fit current events into a few decades of observation and draw comparisons.
As I write today, a bail-out vote failed to pass in Congress, and the stock market [...]
Archive for September, 2008
29 Sep
Armageddon, Chicken Little, and “Crying Wolf”
29 Sep
Christ in You ♦ You in Christ
WHETHER YOU CALL IT “The Plan of Salvation” or “Righteousness by Faith,” the topic of how God saves us from sin sometimes seems impossibly complicated.
Sometimes you read the hair-splitting and pretentious pontificating of theologians, and you’re left with the impression that unless you have a doctorate or two and live in an ivory tower, you’re [...]
27 Sep
At Long Last—a Fresh “Blog Potluck”
YOU LEAVE A GARDEN untended for a few months, and it turns into a total weed-patch. Same thing happens to a blog! Busy year for me, and I haven’t updated my blogroll or posted a new Blog Potluck (until today) since January! (See the “Blog Potluck” tab above.)
Meanwhile, the blog-weeds nearly took the place [...]
26 Sep
Makeover Time
YOU KNOW HOW IT IS: After living with the couch over there and the chair in this other corner for a while, you get tired of the arrangement and feel the need to move everything around. You don’t? Well, then you’re from a different tribe of Israel than I am—since I’m something of a “change” [...]
8 Sep
Color Me Skeptical
“A TEAM OF BIOLOGISTS AND CHEMISTS,” the news item promises, “is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.”
Ohhhhhh-kaaayyyy?
“A lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School,” it continues, “is building simple cell models that can almost be called life.”
Almost. I see. But let’s read on a little more…
“Szostak’s protocells are [...]
4 Sep
Thoughts on the Election
IF YOU THINK WHEN THE ELECTION is over, we’ll have relief from politics for a while, think again.
November 5, 2008, is the first day of the NEXT election cycle, and the talking heads and pundits and chattering media will begin the endless blather all over again.
If it sometimes seems as if the Most Important Thing [...]
