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Entries from February 2008

Wednesday Links

February 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Here’s some good links for your consideration:

Cloaking technology: Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery
He writes real good: Another short but elegant essay at Sippican Cootage: Infinite Calculus. Read it just for the shear pleasure of beautiful writing.
Your health insurance company has your best interest at heart — no, really!:
California Insurers Canceling Policies
The City Attorney … is […]

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The Road to Grace: Honesty

February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Fifth in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace
The Sword of Grace
Getting to Grace
The Road to Grace: Transparency

 
Honesty.
Perhaps the rarest of all human virtues, treasured mostly in its absence, brought into focus most sharply in its antithesis.
If you ponder the subject for a moment, you may well find it surprising […]

Tags: Series: The Path · Faith & Religion

Wednesday Links

February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

On barter: an interesting rumination on the origins of economic transactions: Why do humans barter?
Tanks for the memory: Strange Tanks
Blade runner: Woman falls head-first onto a knife. Amazingly, recovered virtually unharmed. Take-home message: always use high-quality knives (looks like Chicago Cutlery, as you can see here, if you have a very strong stomach.)
Police on short […]

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The Road to Grace: Transparency

February 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Fifth in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity:

On Purpose
Justification, Sanctification, & Grace
The Sword of Grace
Getting to Grace

 

We’ve been discussing some of the core principles of how the Christian faith works — not by adhering to a new set of moral dictates or rules to follow, but by undergoing a transaction which begins with forgiveness […]

Tags: Series: The Path · Faith & Religion

Sunday Suggestions

February 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Still staying very busy — here’s a few interesting links accrued over the past few weeks:

Big Insurance strikes again: UnitedHealth gets fined.
Proof of God: Jen over at Et tu? has a powerful story about her journey from atheism to faith. Here’s one of her recent posts on the knowledge of God’s existence: On […]

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