Overheard a woman tonight explaining her approach to evangelism. I won’t be able to quote her verbatim, but this is pretty close: “When you’re ready. I don’t try to make someone believe; I can’t do that. But when the time comes, when they need God and they’re ready for the Message, it will be there […]
A panel on the radio was discussing bin Laden’s execution tonight, and specifically who deserves how big a share of the credit for it. To their credit and my surprise, conservatives are applauding Obama for the raid. Claims that the Bush administration and its hard-line policies should share the credit are somewhat more dubious. One […]
Watched Azur and Asmar, a full-length animated film from Belgium, I believe, a fairy tale of two boys thick with love and rivalry. The boys are as light and dark, but otherwise alike as twins. Twins who fight a lot. One might say incessantly. Symmetry between the two, and between their native cultures, is the […]
I’m running out of pockets. How can this be? How many pockets does a guy really need to carry his essential stuff—which is to say, how much stuff really is essential? Front left pocket: key ring, car key (which must be kept on a separate key ring, since we share the car), spare change. When […]
Watched Azur and Asmar, a full-length animated film from Belgium, I believe, a fairy tale of two boys thick with love and rivalry. The boys are as light and dark, but otherwise alike as twins. Twins who fight a lot. One might say incessantly. Symmetry between the two, and between their native cultures, is the […]
We got the news this morning that Osama bin Laden was killed sometime last night in an assault on his compound in Pakistan. President Obama would like you to think of this as a watershed in the war on terror: a great achievement that Bush bungled, a severe blow to al Qaeda, maybe even the […]
We got the news this morning that Osama bin Laden was killed sometime last night in an assault on his compound in Pakistan. President Obama would like you to think of this as a watershed in the war on terror: a great achievement that Bush bungled, a severe blow to al Qaeda, maybe even the […]
I checked out “Summer Wars†from the local library this week. Anime has lost a lot of its sparkle for me, as it does for a lot of fans: what is at first a radical new animative form with amazing explosions and camera swoops, wacky humor, and plenty of cute eventually becomes familiar, and from […]
I checked out “Summer Wars†from the local library this week. Anime has lost a lot of its sparkle for me, as it does for a lot of fans: what is at first a radical new animative form with amazing explosions and camera swoops, wacky humor, and plenty of cute eventually becomes familiar, and from […]
The calm following spring break didn’t last long. After a week off, both teachers and students had a chance to get all their stuff together. The kids were, by-and-large, sufficiently refreshed to put up with sitting through lessons. We had pleasant weather, but not so pleasant as to keep the students focused on getting outside. […]