Monday, October 15, 2012

Yes, yes! Yes!!

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Old, but still good, reference to cycling programs and helmet use. Here's an excerpt: But bicycling advocates say that the problem wi...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Thought for today

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One’s own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the Lord. (Proverbs 19:3 TNIV)
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Toy pistols and battleships

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"But in the midst of it all I made a great discovery. There were demon forces, of which I had never dreamed, governing this world. The ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Selfishness

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Selfishness takes on a thousand forms and types; but each and all are sinful, for the whole mind should give itself up to serve God and to p...

Today's thought

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“Then [when disaster strikes] they will call to me [wisdom] but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me, since they...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Psalm for the day

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Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part i...
Sunday, October 07, 2012

Thought for a Sunday morning

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Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the ...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Thought for today

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Paul has a doctrine of the saving righteousness of God whereby God acquits and vindicates the ungodly because of Jesus’ death and resurrecti...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Psalm for the day

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It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in human beings. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes....
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The unexpected side effects of GMO crops

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You won't see this in a Monsanto ad... Marketed as Roundup and other trade names, glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbici...

Thought for today

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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, you his servants; praise the name of the Lord. Let the name of the Lord be praised, both now and fore...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Primitive? Or common to humanity??

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"One final point needs to be made concerning “sacrifice” and history. Theoreticians from Robertson Smith (1973) to René Girard (1979) h...

Thought for today

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My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will prais...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Religion?

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"...attempting to demarcate sacrificial practices on the basis of a distinction between religious and secular actions or motivations is...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Alien thoughts

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"As diverse as the various local or regional settings of ritual killing might have been, the intricate relationship between killing an...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thought for today

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So men, in their sins, treat the realities of the spiritual world as if they were not real, but follow the most empty phantoms of this world...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Sacrifice

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"In the ancient Near East in general, the sacrifice as an offering to otherworldly beings is always part of a complex ritual as a commu...

Thought for today

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In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. So he ended their days in futility and their ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Ritual or religious?

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"I define rituals as acts that have a social meaning and are designed to communicate with an audience. Such acts are not necessarily re...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Intersection or union?

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"In our view ritual and sacrifice are concepts that intersect rather than interbed. Ritual implies repetition, the routinized sequence ...