Long ago, there was a chance that I could have taken, but I did not pursue it for fear that I would become someone else. This was what is commonly known as a mistake. Thus, I did not undergo the baptism of fire and steel that prepares us to leave childhood behind and enter into the realm of adults…
I stopped by a bookstore today. In the featured bestseller collection were a half-dozen books purporting to have the answers to an apparently raging controversy regarding science and religion. So, booksellers have been reduced to arms merchants.
There is something tremendously inspiring about good science. Through ingenuity and repetition, we push back the veil of ignorance and expand the realm of the possible.
I'm fantastically annoyed by the popularity of the Xanga post purporting to describe the differences between Satanism and "Wiccanism." If you're going to hold forth on some topic as if you know what you're talking about, perhaps you can at least get the name of Wicca right. Of course, gross inaccu…
I once discussed Asian geopolitics with a CIA guy on a plane. I was able to acquit myself decently and not come across as a moron. I'm pretty sure I knew more then than I do now. Want evidence? [23:13] moritheil: Someone ranted about how the Chinese won't shut the hell up about WWII and Japan. […
She begins very calmly, and I know there will be trouble. "Michael," she begins, using an angel's name, "tell me why." I pause for a bit. Flippancy is really all I have left. "Well, this was the one thing I hadn't screwed up, so I thought I would be complete." "Why?" she asks, more of an edge t…
For I feared thee,because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst notdown, and reapest that thou didst not sow. And he saith untohim, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant.Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down,and reaping tha…
Sunday, June 10, 2007 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Solemnity) First Reading: Psalm: Second Reading: Gospel: Genesis 14:18-20 Psalm 110:1-4 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11-17 It is ironic how much controversy I have seen when it comes to the Eucharist in the last week.It makes s…
It is peculiar watching the patterns break on the cold stone of reality, dashed this way or that, never to be. We say, "If I had done this differently," or, "If I had only thought of that sooner," or, "If only I had gone about it this way!" You alone, LORD, determine what is.
