So I was talking with a friend today about space travel or some such, and I remembered how I use to think of space travel as a child. I once thought that the term outer space implied that we lived on the inside of the planet. Terms like 'launch window' reinforced this understanding, and I imagined that there were places in the ceiling of the sky ( Read more... )

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In case the video in the last post does not work I'm including the link for the specific video and the Youtube channel.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4

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Whichever way you lean in the presidential election, this video bears consideration. Check it. Challenge it. Do not dismiss it.

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It's rare that I take the opportunity to publicly testify to the goodness of the Lord to me on a daily and a weekly basis. So when the Lord was kind to me today, I felt compelled to write about it. I'm thankful for a couple of things:

1. The Lord does not regard me according to my sins. Day by day and hour by hour I do things (or fail to do things that ( Read more... )

Only the penitent man would wear this t-shirt:


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So I attended a conference over Memorial Day weekend in Lexington, Kentucky called New Attitude, and I am again amazed by the goodness of the Lord in responding to my requests in prayer and providing for things unasked for but sorely needed. I had a couple of things in mind when I went and was reminded of a couple of things that I maybe wasn't ( Read more... )

So I was having dinner with Sarah, my sister, the other day and she said I should keep a blog. I replied that I had a blog, but that I rarely updated it because, after all, what is there to write about? She said most of our conversations would make decent material and that I should write about our most recent conversation: why Prince Caspian was ( Read more... )

So this is kind of fun. To begin with, I have to make a confession. I went to see 'Meet the Spartans' with my brother. It was late, and we were bored, so we went. I'm not p. roud of it, but there it is ( Read more... )

I found a wonderful article today, discussing the evolution of the American war film from World War II to Gulf War II. Very insightful and well worth the read, especially the comparison of Casablanca and The English Patient. You can find it here. (copy and paste this if the link doesn't work: Leave a comment