My new blog is here: http://philip-tallon.livejournal.com/

You don't want to miss pictures of me hanging out with John Piper's son (especially you, Jim).

my LJ has moved here.

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The first monkey astronaut was Albert, a rhesus monkey, who on June 11, 1948 rode to over 63 km (39 miles) on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight ( Read more... )

if you just can't get enough...

my tuition at work for you...

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from the New Yorker on Lewis's LWW by Adam Gopnik:

Yet a central point of the Gospel story is that Jesus is not the lion of the faith but the lamb of God, while his other symbolic animal is, specifically, the lowly and bedraggled donkey. The moral force of the Christian story is that the lions are all on the other side. If we had, say, a donkey, a ( Read more... )

here is a similar article to the Good News one, but with a younger feel and slightly different emphasis.

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