Jack London. Neal Stephenson. Patrick O’Brien.
Archive for May, 2008
“Secular” writers who speak to me..
Posted in More About Me on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fiction I despise
Posted in More About Me on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The “Left Behind” series by LaHaye.
Pop goes Christianity
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My friend of 20 years or so, Robert (a/k/a “Emptyman”) sends me this link.
Narnia Bits
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having seen Prince Caspian today for the second time (I know, I need more of a life, or something…) I am inspired to repost from old ‘blog again.
Another Narnia Bit, or Acts 10
July 21, 2007 by singlechristianman
This is an excerpt of an interaction between Emet (Emeth = Hebrew for “faithful”) and the Lion. I truly [...]
Current read
Posted in Diary, Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Why I rejected Christianity ..A Former Apologist Explains” – by John Loftus.
Why?
Posted in More About Me, Relationship Musings on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone asks me why it matters so to me when they (i.e. as a prospective romantic prospect) believe the earth was created. The short answer is that this is a heuristic stalking horse for other issues.
Wunderkind, or “Princess”
Posted in Music that touches me on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in anticipation of seeing an advance screening of Prince Caspian this night. From Alanis Morrisett’s piece at the end of the first Narnia movie.
Wunderkind
Oh perilous place walk backwards toward you
Blink disbelieving eyes chilled to the bone
Most visibly brave no aprehended gloom
First to take this foot to virgin snow
I am a magnet [...]
There be dragons here…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From an old blog.
There be dragons here
October 30, 2007 by singlechristianman
This is a kind of “crossover” post, something that belongs somewhere between my personal ‘blog and this one.
In pre modern times nautical charts of the world’s oceans had blank spots where the cartographer had no knowledge of what lay in that part of the world. [...]
Sandi Patti..
Posted in Music that touches me on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Por la Via Dolorosa, triste dia en Jerusalem
Los saldados le abrian paso a Jesus
Mas la gente se acercaba
Para ver al que llevaba aquella cruz
Por la Via Dolorosa, que es la via del dolor
Como oveja vino Cristo, Rey, Senor
Y fue El quien quiso ir por su amor por ti y por mi
Por la Via Dolorosa al [...]
Buddhism
Posted in Commentary, More About Me on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am the sort of guy who has a statue of a buddha in my house.. I purchased it from a tinker while adventuring in Cambodia, and it is to me an artifact of Buddhist culture. To many Christians that I am familiar with, this act, this having of this in my [...]
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