Archive for April, 2006

having children

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

You have considered that because Christ was born into this world and suffered and died, He can relate to us. But did it ever occur to you that you have been born into a world of risk and suffering in order for you to be able to relate to ...

congregation consternation

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

There was, in the deep, unfinished parts of the Cimmarron Church of God, an elevated baptistry which opened upon the congregation, and basked in the glow of the electric cross which adorned the brick wall above it. After the hymns were done I would tuck my violin under my ...

babel bound

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I hear hammer blows falling upon our mother tongue: pounding the sharp edges into smooth concensus. But also the smooth round contexts endure the hammers' blows, thinning our words and splitting definitions apart like the peninnsulas that appear in a hamburger which was smashed too flat before it hit ...

how i learned to love ebola

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

"Your commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own." --Dr Strangelove There is something about the Texas Academy of Science giving a standing ovation to a man who has just advocated killing 90% of the human population on the earth by means of a contrived Ebola epidemic ...