What is spiritual growth? We had a great class discussion, and here is a summary of that time. Spiritual growth is a lifelong battle filled with amazing blessings and various challenges. To grow, the…

In 2 Peter 3:15–17, Peter warns his readers against those who twist Paul’s letters, and he associates their misinterpretations with “the error of lawless people.” In this article, I examine both the…

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«You must remember, there’s always something cleverer than yourself.» Merlin The original brothers Grimm version, using the translation by Margaret Hunt as basis, had the [...]

What if instead of burying the dead, we made statues out of them? In 1890, a St. Louis silver plater named Samuel Downing claimed to have found an unusual and creative new way to embalm the dead:…

Is it too much to say that World War II “changed everything?” In The Fear and the Freedom, author Keith Lowe makes a strong case to justify the claim. As many as 80 million people died of…

Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between the four faculties and the four principles.…

ADEIMANTOS: ( we are awoken by-from-under sleep ) o its alright, ma. hineni, hinen — ϊ , , , Ι , , , ? ( or ) ? , , , . , , , ϊ we try to pick your brain ( from yawning )- ( by )-( to pink alert ) we…

An obituary for the man who gave America a $158 million fraud, a Christian Disneyland, an air-conditioned doghouse, miracle silver and buckets of apocalyptic macaroni. Over the years I’ve…

The best-known scene in the literature of management opens with a question: “Schmidt, are you a high-priced man?” A labourer at the Bethlehem steel works in Pennsylvania, paid $1.15 a day…

AP English and damn near a minor in English during my undergraduate degree means that my box of literary tools and techniques was filled during my earlier educational endeavours. However, I believe I…

The first video on the Pure Hokum channel

Between 1949 and 1950, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the future President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. During this period, he lived at 1800 Allston Way with several…

What does it mean for God to be holy? And while we’re on the topic, what does it mean for us—or anything, for that matter—to be holy?

I’m very pleased to have this review published today in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, a publication I’ve long admired. The review is of Timothy Billings’s wonderful Twenty-Nine…

from Maslow's 1970 preface to the second edition of Motivation and Personality: In Chapter 11 on self-actualization I have removed one source of confusion by confining the concept very definitely to…

Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On October 13, 1864, the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad steamed into Marion, marking the start of a relationship that would redefine the community. Over the next century, Marion…

“Tarrou agreed he’d predicted a disaster, but reminded him that the event predicted by him was an earthquake. To which the old fellow replied: “Ah, if only it had been an earthquake! A good bad…

Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On October 13, 1890, Samuel Freeman Miller, Iowa’s first appointee to the United States Supreme Court, passed away. One of only two Iowans to ever serve on America’s highest…

Benedictions or banes?

In the late nineteenth century, J. P. Morgan, already one of the most powerful bankers in New York, wanted electric light before anyone else had it. So Thomas Edison’s people put a steam engine and…

NOTE: This is an old article. I have to reupload it again because Google refuses to index my original blog post. While not as prominent as the formidable Fu Chuan (福船) and Guang Chuan (廣船) , warships…

One of the fascinating things about new technologies or scientific discoveries is how they expose the cracks in our understanding of the world. New distinctions present themselves as evidence emerges…

Last Friday we started a group at The Spark of Hudson on “How to Live a Good Life.” Despite announcing it only a couple of days earlier there was terrific turnout with almost twenty people attending.…

Bereishit / Genesis 1:4 … and God separated the light from the darkness. וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ׃ God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, that…

In everyone, the trace of everyone

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Mysticism, Miracles, and Mystery How are these three categories related? Are they connected in any way? I shall say not. Mysticism is the idea centrally that there is a way of knowing about the world…

My daughter often jokes that between her genealogist mother and geocaching father, she practically grew up in cemeteries. It's no secret that I love cemeteries - both the art of the stones and…

Like most urban-educated people, I had always assumed that mermaids were a Disney invention, and not deserving of serious inquiry. But that perspective changed when I came across the global tradition…

A Litany (Exodus 33:12-23) There be deserts we must face and cross. But only if you go with us. There be wilderness we must walk to the end. But only if you go with us. There be self-doubt and…

“Difficile est longum subitō dēpōnere amōrem. Difficile est, vērum hoc quā lubet efficiās. It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must...

My wife and I recently travelled back to Buckinghamshire for our wedding anniversary. I was born in the county, so returning always feels a little strange. Familiar places have a way of stirring…

Today, October 13, I have the privilege of presenting a workshop at the Bridge Fellowship 's annual conference. The workshop is titled "Why Churches Don't Make Disciples." On September 13, Pastor…

Look around this shot and you're standing at Carrowmore, near Gleneely on the Inishowen peninsula not far from Culdaff, where two lone crosses are about all that's left standing of Both Chonais - a…