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Month: November 2007

William Barclay and Love of Neighbor

William Barclay and Love of Neighbor

My favorite spiritual writer, William Barclay has written: "The true Christian loves Christ and loves his fellow men. More than that, he knows that he cannot show his love to Christ in any other way than by showing his love to his fellow men. However orthodox a Church is, however pure its theology and however noble its worship and its liturgy, it is not a true Church in the real sense of the term unless it is characterized by love…

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Have you read about the island of plastic debris weighing some 3 million tons and twice as large as the state of Texas floating in the ocean off the coast of California? It sounds like something from a horror movie, but it’s true. It’s called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" by the marine researchers who have been studying it for a decade. It has collected in what is known as the North Pacific Gyre because of the clockwise trade winds…

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Death by Black Hole and The Universe

Death by Black Hole and The Universe

Neil DeGrasse Tyson has written a book Death by Black Hole about the solar system. When astrophysicist’s describe the universe it is a rather other world conversation. Some of the things that have struck me as I listen to this book on tape, while commuting to work, include the fact that we are all star dust. We are star dust because all matter contain the elements of the what makes up the solar system and stars. The cosmic origin of…

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