Fri Mar 27 13:05:00 EDT 2020

Country after country are discovering people sick with COVID-19 and imposing lockdowns. Why aren't they getting it? By the time people know they are sick they have been infected for weeks. And they have probably been infecting others. When you start to see people sick, the virus is already spreading through your ( Read more... )

Thu Feb 7 13:03:08 EST 2019

I received a copy of the Salvation Army Alaska Quarterly Newsletter. This is another one of those I-don't-know-my-own-email-address subscriptions. I was looking for the unsubscribe link but at the bottom of the screen was... [Message clipped] View entire message
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12/7/2018 8:30 PM

A martyr, or misguided? Death of missionary sparks debate over evangelical work
CBC Radio's The Current is doing a story about 26-year-old Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. (The island's residents want no contact with the outside world, and they have made this clear ( Read more... )

Mon Oct 29 13:12:53 EDT 2018

NPR Fresh Air 2018/10/29: Eli Saslow Traces 'Straight Line' From White Nationalism To Alleged Synagogue ShooterSo the Jews are behind the "caravan" of migrants from Honduras marching through Mexico? This furthers the goal of increasing the non-white population as part of the race war. But somehow the Jews are still ( Read more... )

Sun Jul 15 18:33:53 EDT 2018

World-Champions French team: 23 players, 16 from immigrant families, 7 Muslims.

It looks like there's some strength in diversity.

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Thu Jun 28 22:27:52 EDT 2018

An interesting premise put forward by a Catholic caller on a radio discussion: Many Catholics vote Republican entirely because of Roe v. Wade. If Roe is overturned, most Catholics will have no reason to continue voting Republican; they align with Democrats on many other issues. So if this one ruling is overturned, the ( Read more... )

Wed Apr 4 22:27:19 EDT 2018

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr, there is a lot of discussion about how America has failed at racial and economic equality.

I'm wondering where Dr. King would have been in the efforts for gender rights - gay marriage, employment, services, housing. The Black ( Read more... )

Mon Mar 26 23:17:52 EDT 2018
8:44 PM

A busker was singing "Is It Magic?" Sounds a lot like a chant.

Somehow that connected to Pange Lingua - which is seasonally (liturgically) appropriate.

And now it's connected to "On the Trail" (or is it the "Painted Desert"?) from Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. I think it's the arpeggios, and maybe F major ( Read more... )