Archive for December, 2005

Adoption, Homosexuality, and Offending All Sides

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

I am ordinarily not an inflammatory writer. The last time I wrote anything that really ticked off the Christian Community was back in 1992, when I had the audacity to suggest that the election of William Clinton as President of the US might actually fall into line with the plans of the Almighty. If I [...]

Miracles, Questions, and a Talking Donkey with no Copyright Attached

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

More thoughts on what is going on around me. Not long ago, I taught a group of young teenagers a Bible lesson. The subject matter was Balaam and his Donkey. For those of you not familiar with the story, let me sum it up. Moses and his people, about 2 Million strong, are mucking about [...]

Mornings, Holidays, and What You Can Do With Your Christmas Cards

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

OK, I admit it. The enthusiasm for inflicting my opinions on the world waned a bit for a while. But I think it’s been rekindled. There is a LOT of stuff out there that I feel the unexplainable need to opine upon. The Patriot Act (ambivalence), the Elections in Iraq and Saddam’s trial (I think [...]

Random Funkyness

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

So I’m looking around the Inter-Web for some research material for a paper I am writing for Grad School. This is how I find the good stuff, by the way. Take a look at the Spell With Flikr utility, scripted by Erik Kastner. Truly cool, that. Here’s an example: By the way, Erik (whom I [...]