It's hard to communicate to people the beauty of science. It's like being in love: you need to experience it to really understand. Why would someone want to spend their life with their eyes in a microscope or in a book or in front of a computer? Because the unanswered questions and the confusion and the small discoveries move something deep within ( Read more... )

What's Going On with La Sierra University and Why It Matters
by Robert Jacobson (v.6)

I wanted to give people an overview of what the La Sierra conflict is all about and what my thoughts on it are. Feel free to share this with anyone who might find it helpful. In what follows I've tried to be fair and reference other sources where ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I traveled to Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, TX, to hear a lecture given by Dr. Roy Benton on the New Atheists. It was a good lecture. Dr. Benton seemed to know his stuff and understand the issues. I was a little annoyed about the setting: we all gathered together to celebrate how we are all right but they are all wrong ( Read more... )

I gave this sermon yesterday at my church. I began by sharing several postcards from Postsecret. Before reading it you should check out some postcards at http://www.postsecret.com. It will make the first page make more sense.


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God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

Then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,

Go to the limits of your longing.

Embody me.

Flare up like flame

And make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No ( Read more... )

(Reposted for posterity. Originally written 7/2/2006)
It was many years ago.

I lived in the dorm for the first three years of college. In the hall off the lobby we had a small nook area with soda and vending machines that I would walk passed on my way to my dorm room. One day I walked by and in the shortest of glances I saw this boy, black, ( Read more... )

I never considered myself a ladies man or a social guru, but my recent observations of my male undergraduate friends have convinced me that I do have some wisdom to share. Men, here are a few tips. [Edit: new items in red.]

When you invite a woman to your home

There are certain things you should always do when you invite a woman into your home ( Read more... )

I disappeared from the net for a little while this last semester. Then one day I accidentally tripped and fell and reactivated my Bookface account. Around the same time a few very charitable people told me that they really missed reading my blog entries. They said they hope I write again. Then I got an iPhone. The stars have aligned, I guess, in ( Read more... )