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Good Friday Thoughts: The Loss of a Child
The following is almost entirely a reiteration of a Holy Week post from 2010. Fifteen years more of life experience has only...
sursumcorda, 18 April 2025 |
Heroes: Bill Maher
Who is Bill Maher, and why does he deserve a place in my Heroes category? No one who knows the deep extent of my ignorance of pop...
Someone Else Noticed the Eggs
It was eye-opening, when we first visited Switzerland, to discover that they don't refrigerate their eggs. Nor do they get sick from...
Hard News
We walk by faith, not by sight. — II Corinthians 5:7 The "faith" part is still strong, but the " sight...
Grace's Biopsy Results and an Important Meeting with the...
Tomorrow (April 9) is a big meeting with Grace's doctors to discuss how to move forward with her ear situation. The results of her...
But I Say to You, Love Your Enemies
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies...
A Voice from the Days When Public Discourse Was Civil
The following letter, published in the Orlando Sentinel in April 2015, was written by a friend of ours, a good man with...
Common Sense and Common Culture
The February 2025 issue of Hillsdale College's Imprimis magazine features an excellent article by Roger Kimball, " Restoring...
Envy Is a Deadly Sin
Why We Must Still Pray for Russia
Less than a month after Russia's 2022 invasion of the Ukraine, I posted " Pray for Russia ." Three years later, it's still on my heart,...
Regenerative Farming
I often hesitate to share articles from the Epoch Times , because although many of them are free to read, some people have been put off...
Presidential Qualities
Enthusiasm, fortitude, patience, and joy are good qualities in a president. I wouldn't wish that job on one of my grandchildren any...
Prayers for Surgery Tomorrow (Thursday, 3-27)
From Daley Ponderings : Grace is having ear surgery tomorrow to explore what's going on, get a biopsy, and maybe get a tube...
23andMe Update
This post has been sitting around for a while, waiting for an opportune time to be published. Given the recent news about 23andMe's...
Judgement Day
Was it a dream or a nightmare? Both, I think. It was frightening, but it also ended before I wanted it to. Elon Musk had come to...
Saint Augustine by Air!
This week, we combined a number of objectives into one visit to Florida's St. Augustine: Showing Noah the sights of America's oldest...
An ENT, a Radiologist, and an Oncologist Walk into a Bar
Jon began his latest update on Grace this way: An ENT, a radiologist and an oncologist walk into a bar.... Oh, maybe not, but they...
The Astronauts, the Judges, and the Bee
Sometimes the Babylon Bee—like much modern satire—is too heavy-handed for my taste. And other times it is spot on . This...
Very Quick Grace Update
Grace has a bone marrow test at Dartmouth today , where they check to make sure it's all good cells with no lingering defective ones....
2025 3:16
Sandwiched between 3:14 (Pi Day) and 3:17 (St. Patrick's Day) is 3:16 (Greatest Love Day) John 3:16, that is. For God so...
Rescue Mission
I created this back in November, before denigrating the world's richest man became almost as popular a pasttime as abusing...
When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie
Sometimes I don't mind showing my age: When contemplating a post appropriate for both the day of the lunar eclipse and Pi Day, this is...
Not So Drastic Changes
You may have noticed that I have often been leaving open the option to comment on my posts, despite what I said in " More Blog Changes...
Me Fly with Noah, Too
Back in December, I wrote about the time Noah took his little sister flying . Today was our turn. We flew to Ocala and...
Lenten Meditation 2025
We are now in the season of the church year called Lent. A season of self-denial and repentance, it is paradoxically one of my...