Monthly Archives: August 2013

Song of Songs, Chapter Four

Once again, take warning all who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter Three

Once again, take warning all who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter Two

A warning to those who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a point … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter One

Over the next seven days, my plan (we’ll see how it works out) is to give a commentary on the biblical text called the “Song of Songs,” or sometimes, the “Song of Solomon.” I’ll start this post with a brief … Continue reading

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Keep Writing

If you are a writer, then you should be writing regularly. And when you submit a work for publication, you should be starting to work on your next project. You don’t want to have all your eggs in one basket … Continue reading

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Warp Drive Update

Below is a video from the third day of this past week’s Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress. Dr. White of NASA updated the progress of his experiments (at the NASA Houston space center) to create a tiny warp bubble (yes, like … Continue reading

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Misunderstandings

A commonly held opinion expressed on the internet goes more or less as follows: “The bible is a poorly translated transcription of poorly translated oral history and folk legends told by stone age goat herders plagiarized from the religious texts … Continue reading

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Responsibility

I awoke to read this headline on MSNBC.com: “Australian politician blames ‘gun culture’ in US for baseball player’s death”. Every time someone is shot and killed and it becomes big news, someone, somewhere will say something stupid like that. But … Continue reading

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Regarding Misanthropy

In the current National Geographic, a hater of humanity wrote a letter to the editor denouncing the attempt to extend human lifespans. She also condemned an earlier article on space exploration. Why? Because she believes human beings are destroying the … Continue reading

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Of Numbers and Genealogies

It can be disturbing for people to discover that the Bible, though the Word of God, is also a human document, written by human beings and subject to all the issues that afflict any human created material. Over the years, … Continue reading

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