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Mar 12, 2009

Misreading the Signs: Early Regrets in the Age of Obama

By Jason Kettinger | Posted at 3:20 AM

It started off as an “I’m sorry” I offered to a friend the other day. He asked what I was sorry about; I simply said, “the November election.” Regular readers will recall my endorsement and defense of then-Sen. Barack Obama during that election cycle.

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Mar 05, 2009

The View from Mudsock Heights: When the Power Goes Out

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 4:47 AM

When the power went off, it woke me up. Of course, a sensible person would have looked around, rolled over, and slept some more.

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Not Our Problem

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 4:30 AM

At the Last Supper, Jesus demonstrated how the Kingdom faces her enemies. He could easily have exposed Judas. Even as soon as Judas began embezzling from the treasury shared by the group, Jesus could have acted, because He knew. He did not act.

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Feb 26, 2009

The View from Mudsock Heights: The Ancient Belching Monster in the Barn

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 4:26 AM

So call me a Luddite. Fact is, calendar notwithstanding, I shall consider spring to have arrived when I can start the Gravely without risk of dislocating my shoulder. Part of this has to do with the lifting of heavy weights to build my strength and part has to do with the weather becoming warm enough that the oil in the thing is thinner than molasses.

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The Triumph of Acts

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 3:57 AM

“A poem should not mean, but be.” So said one of the great poets of the twentieth century, Archibald MacLeish. Meaning is important – direction and description are crucially important to life, but few people are motivated by “meaning” alone. The cliché about actions speaking louder than words gets at the heart of it. Luke seemed to know that quite well and he applied that lesson in the Book of Acts. As we begin the Lenten season today, it seems an appropriate time to meditate on the growth of the Early Church.

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Feb 19, 2009

The View from Mudsock Heights: Feather-Shaped Soot Marks on My Wall

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 5:42 AM

Somebody’s bright idea is banging around in my chimney right now, and lest there be any doubt, I don’t much like it.

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A Starting Point of Faith

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 5:30 AM

The idea of faith is one that gets caricatured in the modern world. In part, that stems from misunderstanding. What happens behind that word “faith” is not easily explained to our liking. Ed Hurst writes on the starting point of faith, laying a foundation of understanding.

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Feb 12, 2009

The View from Mudsock Heights: The Space Time Continuum from a Porch

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 5:30 AM

It’s enough to give you a headache.

A few years ago I was working on a book with Dr. Morris E. Chafetz, and in the course of conversation he said, “Maybe time doesn’t really exist. Maybe it’s just something we’ve created for our own convenience.” As a child of the space age, I’d heard speculations of all sorts and now, with a book to get out, I didn’t see where we had time to discuss it. “Yeah, maybe,” I replied.

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See, I Told You So (or, A Sad Tale of Satellite Radio)

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 2:34 AM

Anyone who spends years of his or her life writing for public consumption, particularly when that writing is commentary, faces two distinct truths. First, you will get things wrong. Second, you will get things right. When a story from the back catalog beckons as being proven more and more right, it just must be pulled out again. The Sirius XM merger was a bad idea, I said in February 2007, and as the combined company allegedly teeters on bankruptcy, my point is being proven.

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Feb 05, 2009

The View from Mudsock Heights: Deep Philosophizing in a Parking Lot

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 5:14 AM

There was no way to tell whether the old fellow thought he recognized me or would have begun the conversation with anyone who happened by. Nor, really, did it matter. Our meeting outside the store on one of the warm days week before last began with his question. “What do you think of that tomb of Jesus they say they found?”

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