Nature vs. Nurture Here is fascinating piece on nature vs. nurture. Fun facts like this: Violence on the Kibbutz in Israel is so low that the criminal courts send violent offenders there to learn how to live a non-violent life. http://bit.ly/2aoeFQ1 Scientists think...
Some poets appear on the horizon with a poem, and then disappear, with little else known about them except for that one poem. William Hurd Hillyer (1880-c.1931) is one such poem. We know when he was born, but not sure when he died. But when he published “My Master’s...
As soon as you enter my home we have named “Dolphin Cay,” on the floor there is a mosaic of “St. Brendan’s Cross,” an Irish “fish cross” made of four dolphins or whales. There are many apocryphal seafaring stories about St. Brendan, who according to one of the legends...
Rich Toward God Lectionary31 July 2016Hosea 11:1-11Psalm 107:1-9, 43 Colossians 3:1-11Luke 12:13-21 Text to Life We’ve all have had those “shoulda, coulda, woulda” moments in life, those instances where “greatness passed us by” and we were clueless. Did you skip like...
The Plank Story Lectionary31 July 2016 God’s Guidelines for Justice and Mercy (Exodus 23:1-9)King Solomon Judges With God’s Wisdom (1 Kings 3:16-28)God Empowers Othniel, First Savior (Judge) of Israel (Judges 3)God Entreats Judges to Judge As God Would Judge With Love...
