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  What will you do When your race is through And you’re nowhere near the finish line?   What will you do When it doesn’t come true And you leave your dreams behind?   What will you do When folk look at you As if you were an antique?   What will you do When…

I have, for as long as I can remember, been an enormous fan of Robert Duvall. Even in his first cameo role as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, he was something special.  I have loved his various cowboy and cop roles, especially loved him in The Apostle, and couldn’t get enough of his…

Here is an article in Christianity Today about the recent kerfuffle about whether believing scholars should participate in the guild— the Society of Biblical Literature. This was all prompted by an article by Ron Hendel in BAR earlier this year.  You will find my view in the article itself…. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/september/4.16.html The picture is of two…

Jeff MacDonald, a good journalist has written an article for the Religious News Service which has now appeared in the Huffington Post about the impact of the Jesus Seminar 25 years later, and what they are up to now.  Here is the link to the article….. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/31/jesus-seminar-celebrates-_n_701396.html You will discover that my friend Richard Hays…

BRAIN FOOD   I’ve got a genuine replica brain, It’s a collectible rendition, I grant it’s not the latest model, But it’s in good condition.   It still processes data pretty well Though there are some memory lapses It distinguishes between good and evil, Even between knaves and apses.   There’s minimal start up time…

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a Dream’ speech, somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 people showed up for a rally at the Lincoln Memorial featuring speeches by Glenn Beck (a Mormon) and Sarah Palin (some sort of conservative Protestant).  Here is the link to the NY times article on the matter…

Leighton Ford is an old Charlotte friend of mine, and was formerly Billy Graham’s right hand man in the Billy Graham Association.  I find what he says in this post both sensible, sane, and well worth reflection.  BW3 Jesus and the Mosque On a shelf at home I have a copy of Pilgrims of Christ…

  There is no unmoved Mover Who set the stars a-spin And crawled back into heaven Never seen again.   There is no old Watchmaker Who wound all things up tight And then retreated quietly Removed from thought or sight.   There is no Ground of Being Unearthed by abstract thought No universal solvent, We…
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