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Not Going to Church
Yesterday was “welcome back” Sunday at my home church. I didn’t go. Midori asked if she could stay home with me. I told her that I was staying home for principled reasons and that as soon as she was able to articulate a principled basis for rejecting church, then she could stay home with me. [...]
Continue reading...National Alliance of Covenanting Congregations
8. September 2004
In the Williams—Capriati confrontation at the U.S. Open, Capriati won 2—6, 6—4, 6—4. If you tally up games won for each player, you find that each won 14 games. On a per—game basis, the match was tied. What if the first set had been 1—6? In that case, the better player would have lost. The [...]
Continue reading...Signs from God
2. September 2004
When I was in high school, a friend had a cousin who was a computer scientist. He had set up a marketing business. He was cutting edge. He had these huge disks that looked like something from Roswell, and each one contained data entries — the names and addresses of thousands of people. Our friend [...]
Continue reading...Yelling Frogs and Altruistic Genes
30. August 2004
This weekend we visited friends at their cottage on an island just outside of Pointe au Baril on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay. Everything here is larger than life. For those who don’t know much about the geography of Ontario, as you drive north, you hit a clear demarcation where, suddenly, everything is granite [...]
Continue reading...Retelling the Story
23. August 2004
Most of us are familiar with the “laughing Jesus” figured here. The minister at my church has a framed print of it on the wall above his desk. Drawings like this one help to retell the story of Jesus. Like the linguists who translate the original texts from Koine Greek into a multiplicity of contemporary [...]
Continue reading...Trying to Feel Something – Anything …
12. August 2004
Last night I was hanging cement board for the shower I’m building. The board comes in 5 foot X 32 inch sheets. To cut them, you have to score them with a utility knife, then crack them along the scored line. You have to make several passes and press hard because — you guessed it [...]
Continue reading...Putting my house in order
10. August 2004
My preoccupation since October has been a major renovation. We used to have 2 small bathrooms back—to—back. One was the en suite to the master bedroom. The other opened out the back hallway, and so this was designated as the kid’s bathroom. There was also an alcove in the hallway, which was wasted space, and [...]
Continue reading...Collateral (The Movie) & Copyright
7. August 2004
Last night, my son, Mitchell, and I went to see Collateral, the new Michael Mann action flick starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was a slick show, and both leads gave a little extra so that their characters weren’t mere ciphers in a pro forma script. I was amused by the clip that came [...]
Continue reading...We’ve Got Lice
5. August 2004
Summer has arrived. The weather has been balmy. Love is in the air. The kids have been to camp. Now they’re resuming their training in gymnastics and trampoline respectively. But our storybook lives aren’t all that perfect. Midori brought home some lice as a present from camp. Our first efforts at delousing her were unsuccessful. [...]
Continue reading...I have forgotten so much
2. August 2004
While we were up north this weekend, we dropped in on Pine House Farm a.k.a. my sister—in—law’s to visit the newest additions to their family — 2 sows. Sometime around thanksgiving, we can go up and enjoy a breakfast of bacon and eggs. I took this picture of Midori hosing down the young fatlings. Later, [...]
Continue reading...I’m an adulterer
30. July 2004
Sometimes Jesus said the damnedest things. One thorough piss—off is that if you’re married and you look at a woman with so much as a lustful gaze, then you might as well have committed adultery. See Matthew 5: 27 “You have heard that the law of Moses says, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28 But I [...]
Continue reading...Doing it – one way or another
29. July 2004
I’ve been surfing bi sites and have collected 2 accounts for your edification. Each is an explicit description of sex. One is male—male; the other, female—female. Imagine, if you can (or maybe it’s not even necessary), that you are a generic heterosexual Christian. Read these accounts and then return to the questions I have prepared. [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Get Caught
25. July 2004
It’s been a social weekend. Friday night we had dinner at the refurbished Jolly Miller with Tamiko’s cousin and her boyfriend. Saturday, we went up to Lindsey to visit friends from the church who have retired up there. Then, today, we drove back in that direction to a “Go Fly A Kite” BBQ in Bethany. [...]
Continue reading...Picking Raspberries in the Rain
21. July 2004
It’s been the wettest July in recent recollection. Usually, by this time, all the lawns are brown; but things are looking positively Irish. It’s sunny for most of the day, then clouds come up quickly and a storm bursts. It only lasts for a few minutes, then the sun comes out again and a haze [...]
Continue reading...Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
16. July 2004
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a lame read. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Really, it should have been nominated in the fiction category. Yes, it’s a fun read and fascinating, too. But it proceeds from a view of history which runs counter to my experience of how life unfolds. The warning signs [...]
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