Mad Men and Cool Whip
Cool Whip, every North American’s favorite artificial whipped cream substance, has now entered its 45th year of existence. On the surface, its creamy, light fluffiness might not appear an appropriate […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
What if I Can’t Believe?
A few years ago, The Washington Post ran an interview with evangelical mega-church pastor Rick Warren where Warren was asked the following question: “How come some people ‘get’ to believe and others do […]
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 3
Professor Lawrence Krauss is presently a scientific materialist’s pin-up physicist. With Richard Dawkins’ lavish praise, Krauss has been thrust into the limelight, and he is determined to use his quantum […]
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 2
In part 1 of this post, I reviewed the near hysteria in materialist circles surrounding Lawrence Krauss. If you want to explain how 13.72 billion years ago we got a […]
Universe from Nothing – a load of Krauss, part 1
If I hear one more person cite Lawrence Krauss without meaningful explanation, I’m going to explode. It began with a bombshell. Dawkins was recently debating Australian cardinal George Pell on […]
The Blank Menu
The waiter looked confused. He shuffled the menus in his hand from left to right, then put one in the middle, then rechecked them again. “Why don’t you just give […]
Children of Adoption
Adoption is beautiful. I have a number of friends going through the process right now – from those waiting for notice that they are going to be parents, to those […]
“Here Lived a Great Street Sweeper…”
I’ve got two questions I’m going to ask you. Here’s the first one: “So, what do you do?” This is one of those standard questions we get asked when we […]
Distance, Repentance and Embrace
Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations details the maturation of Pip, a young man specially selected by an unknown benefactor to become a “gentleman.” It is easy to read the tale as […]
Are You Connected?
There’s no doubting the power of social networks. Recently I bought something on Amazon, and was surprised by the website’s invitation to me to share news of my purchase with […]
Wondering Fair 