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Friday, October 24, 2014

The Blinding Light and Omniscient Darkness of a World Made of Language

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Back to words -- or messages, messengers, and recipients. Deconstructionists like to pretend that the world is made of language, but they d...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Eavesdropping on Nature's God

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Continuing with yesterday's line of thought... well, first of all, here are some highlights from the second repost I promised: Reader M...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Where Do Babies -- and Men and Women -- Come From?

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Insufficient time for an all new post. But don't go away! I found one from SIX years ago and another from FOUR years ago, and if you...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The Monkey in the Middle of the Cosmo-Christic Revolution

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I suppose a few more words about words are in order, since I don't have time to come up with a new subject. Balthasar shares the Racc...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

Sudden, Like a Word

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"In OUR beginning was the Word." Or so says Joan d'Argghh!: It "is the miracle that happened when man became a living s...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Secular Myth and Religious Science

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"The simplest truth about man," writes Chesterton , "is that he is a very strange being." Just as it is impossible to...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

A Mirror, Wrapped in a Space, Inside a Cave

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If we find a turtle on top of a fencepost, we can be sure it didn't get there by itself. And if we stumble upon a painting, we know it ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Slow Motion Miracles

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Continuing with the spirit of yesterday's post -- which everyone agrees was much too short -- we are batting around the idea that man is...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Man: Miracle or Monster?

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Hmm. As our president is fond of saying of his Straw Man of the Day, I reject this false choice! I read Chesterton's The Everlasting ...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

A Word of Silence

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In honor of Indigenous People's Day there will be no post today, since indigenous Americans didn't have writing. Besides, I have to...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Man's Perfect Incompleteness

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About that hole in the center of man: again, it is unlike anything else found in all of nature. No one expects a pig to be a better pig. ...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Lost Time is Not Found Again. Unless...

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Well, the happiness seminar turned out to be even more unhappy than I had imagined. I brought along some Theological Anthropology to keep ...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Wise Men From the Yeast

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It happens every other October: I wait until the last minute to complete my (dis)continuing education units. Therefore, I'll be at an ...
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Monday, October 06, 2014

Cosmic Podiatry

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I think it's appropriate to pause a moment and reflect on ten nine years of the One Cosmos blog, what with a seemingly endless trail --...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Who Was that Unmasked Man?!

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Since we're on the subject of time, here is a timely aphorism of Don Colacho: Time should be feared less because it kills than because ...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

A Day in the Life of God: Three Chords Good!

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Another problem I have with divine omniscience as usually understood is that it is as if the three modes of time -- past, present, and futur...
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