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Body Talk
My last post before I started this new blog was about the Christian view of the body, particularly that pernicious bent given to the body’s natural desires by the flesh. My purpose was to lay the foundation for a discussion of the way we now tend to separate the mind from the body. We have…
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How Paranoid Do We Have To Be?
The media have been calling it a “fake bomb” and a “hoax device,” but neither description is accurate. You only have to look at it—a simple circuit breadboard with several LEDs arranged to form a star, some wires, and 9-volt battery—to see that it is wearable electronic art. Why would anyone think this simple device…
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Adult What?
Okay, I wasn’t going to write anymore on Chip’s Rants, but now I find myself with a rant, and it just belongs here. Last week I was in Wisconsin, which appears to have more adult-themed businesses than any other midwestern state. I got to thinking that it was really a misappropriation of the term…
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Flesh
The New International Version of the Bible consistently translates the Greek word “σαρκος” as “sinful nature” in contexts where it refers to that part of a person that tends toward sin. Older translations had it as “flesh,” and I think something is lost in the newer rendering, namely, the connection with the body. Indeed, it…
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Repent!
John the Baptist, Jesus, and his followers all called on their hearers to “repent.” It’s a religious word that has lost its meaning. It conjures up images of homeless men bearing hand-lettered signs: “Repent or perish.” It seems to belong to the fringes of fundamentalism, a seedy, down-at-heel, countrified Christianity. It’s no longer fashionable to…