Of all the “spiritually enriching” topics to be talked about, the latest one in the god-blogsphere appears to be a discussion on John Piper’s use of “foul language”. He said something about god kicking our butts. Duh. I cannot agree more with Dan who says we miss the point entirely
This is the kind of Evangelical [...]

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From my feed reader, goodies for today.
Over at Cerulean Sanctum Dan issues a “myths about christianity” challenge. I like these. Hopefully some good articleas and studies will come out of the post. It’s also a good list to reflect upon to see if we have been guilty of any of these.

Christians are more intolerant of [...]

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Nita kulkarni has a fire filled post on the British rule.

Well said. A link to the article she is referring too would be nice.
The world forgets that when the white skin was still catching frogs in his loin clothes in the swamps of Britain we had a university with resident professors in 50 subjects.
Bloody [...]

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Is up at From the anchor Hold
read through the first few and was blessed.
ciao
schizo

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Following the news of shanthi the Indian athlete at Asian games who has supposedly failed a gender test  Scott Adams come up with a good probable questionnaire the shrink must have used. The Dilbert blog
Disclaimer: I have nothing but utmost disdain for the morons all over the net who are going “so the she was [...]

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Just Discovered Seed a really good science magazine. From an article about succesfull mapping of fruitfly sperm genome.
You can’t make a sperm cell with ten proteins; you need hundreds and maybe thousands.”
Microbes make stink
In this month’s issue of the journal Ecology, Georgia Institute of Technology biologist Mark Hay and his colleagues found that microbes make [...]

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Haven’t shared any link love in a long time. here is some (g)old stuff.
Preparing for Christams (series)
There is joy at Christmas – holy, beautiful joy which ought to blow our pride and our smallness to pieces, and make us, as Paul wrote, even in a severe test of affliction coupled with extreme poverty, overflowing with [...]

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