Last night my wife took a picture off our east deck (with her phone), and that pic is posted below. She put it up on her blog, and I wanted to do the same here, because it illustrates a point I have often wondered about. Why is it that nature photography is so limited, in …
Another Word Would Be Eclectic
I have said before, in the course of this argument or that one, that my musical tastes are catholic. But, for any of those who might be interested, I thought I should make that point a bit more concrete. One of my more frequented playlists in my iTunes library has 537 songs in it. If …
Any Previous Garble
In Ephesians 6:4, fathers are told to bring up their children in the “nurture and admonition” of the Lord. This is all very well, and the words underlying this phrase are paideia and nouthesia. Back in the day, I used to say (in print and on audio tapes) that paideia was the word we rendered …
Welcome to Blaire
Please join with us in thanking the Lord for the safe arrival of our newest grandchild — Blaire Aubrey Alette Jankovic. Mom and daughter are doing great. God is good.
Natcherly
While visiting this evening after our sabbath dinner, we got on to sleep stories, and I was reminded of a good one that happened to us years ago — back in our E street days, not that this means anything to you all. But I digress . . . I was sleeping soundly one night, …
Uber-Post of All Time
As I have been playing around with this new website, fooling about with techie analyses and such, I am reminded of an experience I had once in the Navy. I was on the USS Tusk, a vintage diesel submarine, and we were headed over to the Med. We were making that transit on the surface …
Sunny Sea
We are very grateful to God for last night’s safe arrival of our 14th grandchild, Marisol Helen Wilson, a gift of God to Nate and Heather. She weighed in at 9 lb. 12 oz., and appears to like everybody.
At Least I Didn”t Confuse Him With Rutherford B. Hayes
I just got my author’s copies of 5 Cities That Ruled the World today, and you should of course get your twelve copies now. But — and this is the way it frequently goes even while the printing press is cooling down — this is the time when errors are brought to one’s attention, waving …
As Though the Gospel Had Cooties
I think it would be appropriate to ask you to consider this post as a combination of testimony, confession, record of theological emergence, and story, as in, the rest of the story. Well, actually some of the rest of the story. Not surprisingly, many of the milestones in my life are most easily marked by …
Prayer Breakfast Judeo Christians
So let me tell you about a fun thing. A few weeks ago, Garry Trudeau ran a few strips in Doonesbury sending up “The Family,” of C Street fame — a group of Washington insiders running a ministry to politicians. As a faithful Doonesbury reader unacquainted with whatever scandal he was referring to, I thought …