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Category Archives: Life
This Aspie’s Response to The Imitation Game
A few months ago, a commenter told me about the 2014 movie, The Imitation Game, and asked me to evaluate its depiction of Asperger’s Syndrome. I saw the movie a few nights ago, and I am ready to chime in. … Continue reading
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, Life, Movies
Tagged Alan Turing, Asperger's Syndrome, Joan Clark, The Imitation Game
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Unintentional Sin in the New Testament and Books 1-2 of the Sibylline Oracles
Growing up as a Christian, I was taught that the animal sacrifices in the Old Testament foreshadowed Jesus Christ’s death on the cross to pay the penalty for people’s sins. I assumed that those sins were intentional sins—-sins that people … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Daily Quiet Time, Life, Rabbinics, Religion
Tagged intentional sins, Sibylline Oracles, unintentional sins
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Ramblings on Historical Connection
I would like to follow up on my review of the book Theology as Retrieval, by W. David Buschart and Kent D. Eilers (see here). This will be a rambling post. If there is a central theme of this post, … Continue reading
About That Post I Wrote on Baptism…
A post that I wrote a few weeks ago, Sermon at a New Church: The Significance of Baptism, has been getting an unusual number of views lately. I don’t mean that it is going viral, by any means. Actually, it … Continue reading
Ramblings on Ethics, the Golden Rule, and Moral Absolutes
In this post, I would like to use as my starting-point something that Brian Morley says on page 323 of his book, Mapping Apologetics. Morley is profiling the thoughts of Christian apologist John Warwick Montgomery, and the topic is the … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Bible, Church, Life, Philosophy, Religion, School
Tagged Apologetics, Brian K. Morley, Brian Morley, Golden Rule, Immanuel Kant, john rawls, John Warwick Montgomery, Mapping Apologetics
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2015 Easter Ramblings
For Easter Sunday, I went to church this morning. Actually, I go to church every Sunday, but there were more people at church this morning because it is Easter. My pastor preached about the folded napkin, or burial cloth, that … Continue reading
Scattered Ramblings on Sarcasm (With a Detour About Hell)
These past days have been the sort of days in which crap from my past enters my mind. I was remembering an incident this morning. I was an undergraduate in college over a decade ago, and I said something sarcastic … Continue reading
Posted in Family Guy, Life, Religion, School, Seinfeld, Television
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Scattered Ramblings on Handling Success
A few weeks ago, I was watching CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday morning. During winters or on rainy days when I cannot walk to church, my Mom’s husband drives me, and we watch pieces of CBS This Morning before we … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang Theory, Life, Movies, Religion, Television
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II Chronicles 20
In II Chronicles 20, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the inhabitants of Mount Seir (the Edomites, most likely), and possibly another group (the NRSV says “some of the Meunites,” probably basing that on what the Septuagint has) are preparing to attack … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, II Chronicles, Life, Religion, School, Weekly Quiet Time
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Vaccines (Not That I Am Qualified to Opine)
I was going to write about the current vaccination controversy today, but I am a bit hesitant to do so. A lot of people trust what they read online, and that can include my little blog. I don’t want people’s … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Life, Politics
Tagged Andrew Napolitano, Chris Christie, Robert Mendelsohn, Roe vs. Wade, vaccines
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