Creation and Moltmann
Placing a book on your “Amazon Wish List” is not the same as reading it. I wish it were that easy. So, I cannot completely speak about a book called The Spirit in Creation and New Creation, by Jürgen Moltmann. I will read this book after I have read a few other books on my…
Continue readingFollow-Up to Much Afraid
The Much Afraid album contains a song called “Crazy Times.” Jars of Clay band members have said in interviews that this song is about how prayer is often “the last place we go.” I understand what they mean. We go about life without a thought about God and think that we are fine – for…
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It has been 17 years since the band “Jars of Clay” released their Much Afraid collection of songs. The album was influenced by the fact that band members had read Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. The following quote introduces the concept that Love and Pain go together. ‘She bent forward to look,…
Continue readingInternational Hockey, 1972 and 2014
I was 12 years old in September of 1972. I remember the 28th day of the month, Junior High School for me, but no school work was done that day. Canada had won three games in the international hockey Summit Series against the USSR, a union of soviet socialist states anchored by the republic of…
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There is an interesting article at Science News about ancient footprints found in petrified mud in England. According to the explanations presented in the article, some ancient ancestors of humans walked through the mud at least 780,000 years ago, and the footprints stayed in that mud and were protected from erosion for many years until…
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