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When Animals Talk Back
When Animals Talk Back This week Jerry and I attended a Dialogue Group that, improbably, brings together Jews who are largely liberal with evangelical Christians who are largely conservative. They are sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Bucks … Continue reading →
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“Where Is God?”
“Where Is God?” We flew to Southern California this week, to look in on my father-in-law. He lives in a town near San Bernadino, the now-famous site of the latest mass murders. Over the four-day period of our trip, while … Continue reading →
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Tagged adventure stories, adventures, afterlife, afterlife rewards, air travel, anthropologists, authority, bad guys, believers, boyhood, buccaneers, care, classroom discipline, classroom disruption, crewmen, Dante's Inferno, destiny, dying, faithfulness, falsehood, fate, field work, God, golden rule, good guys, Good Orderly Direction, guilty minds, heaven and hell, heroes, ideas, ideology, Jurgen Ziewe's Vistas of Infinity, love of neighbor, Loyalty, magic, mass murder, maturity, mistaken ideas, mutaneers, mutineers, piety, pirates, Portuguese fishing village, punishments, realism, respect, responsibility, rewards, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, San Bernadino, sea captains, seamen, security, Southern California, Success, survival, symbolism, the Other, the political animal, the speaking animal, treasure, triumph, truth, unbelievers, victimizers, victims, Victor Zammit, victory, violent jihadis
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