Month: March 2007
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Attentive Cat, Mouse with Cheese
This cat (by an artist age 6.5) is all circles, curves, and friendliness. See how he extends his paws outward generously from his body. The only sharp corners on him are the points of his fuzzy ears. No claws on those teddy-bear paws, and no fangs in that sweet muzzle. But conspicuously absent from the…
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Is the New York Times Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
A colleague tipped me off to this howler at the New York Times. Under a picture of a crowd at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Times prints the caption: Worshipers at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Jesus is traditionally believed to be buried. But a new documentary says he might have…
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Old Joke Comes True
One good thing I can say about James Cameron’s Lost Tomb of Jesus media blitz: It pays Christianity a great compliment by accepting the religion’s claim to be about something real. The basic idea motivating Cameron’s project is that if somebody finds the body of Jesus Christ, the whole Christian thing is over, finished, based…
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I Totally Found the Grave of Jesus!
No, seriously! I was just walking through this graveyard near Los Angeles, and I look up, and there it was: Clear as day, “Jesús” written right on a grave stone. And as if that’s not enough to let you know that I of all people have found the very grave of Jesus himself, look at…
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On the Blog Again
Well, we’re a week into Lent and I have already failed at my chosen Lenten discipline — to blog regularly. You see, since becoming an official Middlebrow blogger last August I have managed to post a whopping four or five blogs. My colleagues on this blog can reach that total in a week (or less)!…
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Repairing the Ruins
In 1644 John Milton of Paradise Lost fame published an eight page pamphlet entitled “Of Education.” In it he stated: The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him,…