At the Intersection of Theology, Political Science, Nature, and the Arts
We thought he was limping because he’d injured his leg while running from one end of the RV to the other in delighted excitement over our coming home. Mac greeted us with this ritual of a mad dash every single time we entered the door. But … the limp wouldn’t be traced to his collision …
As the jacket cover details, Bartlett reports on "trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers and vigilantes--and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous." Bartlett enters into and exposes the digital underworld of power and freedom that is the Dark Net, where persons are set loose to …
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It promised to be a great place to visit: a spectacular series of multi-colored cliffs rising 90 feet above the water; springs reputed to offer mineral water cures; a river coursing through that provides a gateway to the Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean; a river that even had an ironclad named for it, the CSS Neuse, a vessel that played …
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Six sea turtles were returned to the ocean off Topsail Island, North Carolina, this morning after having been healed of illness or injury by the staff and volunteers of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. One by one, in slings or in the arms of caregivers, Camper, Coldie, October, River, Simon and Theodore …
I’ve just come in the door after having had a very disturbing conversation with the owner of a pesticide franchise. On my morning walk here in North Carolina, I came upon two men, wearing chemical packs on their backs, spraying a tree. I motioned my desire to chat with them and one man turned and …
Acts 1:1-11; Acts 2:1-13 Pentecost Right after World War II, a U.S. Army officer and his wife were stationed in Japan. The country had been devastated by the war. The economy was in shambles. Unemployment approached 60%. People came to the army wife’s door daily looking for work. One man said he could do wonders …
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Walking the Way: A pilgrimage through France and Spain in an ancient tradition thriving in a modern world. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/the-way/george-photography
If you’ve been hunkering down in the saltshaker, it’s time to be shaken out. There’s a world that needs to be made fresh and healthy; a world that needs to be seasoned with the Word that preserves; a world that needs to be reminded of what it means to live with moral purpose and decency; …
I am a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander. I’ve often used that expression over the years without ever knowing its origin and I never thought to ask other dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders why we refer to ourselves as such. I’d read, at some point, that the expression means “thorough-going and uncompromising” but it wasn’t until today that I …
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As many of us are chilled just now by a "deep freeze," I thought our cold folks--as well as those in warmer climes--might wish to sit a bit in the "green lap of nature": We should be better Christians if we were more alone; we should do more if we attempted less, and spent more time …
DFG Hailson 