This week’s Wednesday News & Views is dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press. With Gutenberg’s development of the printing press in 1450, mass production of written materials became a reality. Books could now be produced and sold by the multiple thousands, a radical departure from what had been the norm. By 1500, printing… Read More »
Thomas Helwys’ Wednesday News & Views
This week’s Wednesday News & Views is dedicated to Thomas Helwys (1575 –1616), an English lawyer and theologian who played a major role in the development of the people now known as Baptists. During the last 20 years of his life, two groups tried to correct perceived abuses in the Anglican Church. The Puritans worked… Read More »
Polycarp’s Wednesday News & Views
Today’s Wednesday News & Views is dedicated to Polycarp. He was a man who lived near the end of the age of the original apostles and may have been mentored by the disciple John. A Christian since childhood, he became the bishop of Smyrna (in modern Turkey). At age 86, the Romans decided to arrest… Read More »
Howard’s Rock
I have to admit I was surprised when I learned that the person arrested for damaging “Howard’s Rock” was supposedly a Clemson fan. For those of you who are not sports fans, “Howard’s Rock” is an iconic rock that sets on a pedestal at the east end of Clemson’s Memorial Stadium. Players rub the rock… Read More »
Meteorites and the Future
Earlier today a meteor struck an area of Russia about 930 miles east of Moscow, creating a shockwave that blew out windows and damaged buildings for miles around. More than 950 people were injured, most suffering minor cuts and bruises from flying glass. However forty-six people remain hospitalized. The meteor was visible in the morning… Read More »
I’m the Grandson of a “Yellow Dog Democrat”
My grandfather was a “yellow dog democrat.” I have childhood memories from the 1960s of him still blaming practically every problem in the country on Herbert Hoover, the Republican President at the start of the great depression. It didn’t take him long to vote: just pull the lever for a straight Democratic Party vote. The… Read More »
Proud and Loud
I was talking with members of the stewardship committee last night at our church before their meeting started when I noticed a car pulling into a parking space near the conference room window. On the front bumper was a special license plate. In big blue letters it read “UK”. Of course I pointed it out… Read More »
Patriotism and the Olympics
Patriotism is alive and well in the USA. Like most of you, I sometimes bemoan many aspects of our modern American culture and have concerns about our future. Our nation is divided by differing perspectives and belief systems. What God calls sin, many now call good. Yet it seems that most of us are proud… Read More »
The “God Particle”
Stories appeared in last week’s newspapers touting the discovery of the “God particle” or Higgs boson by physicists. I’m not a scientist, but as I understand it the Higgs boson is a tiny subatomic particle that interacts with other subatomic particles that are building blocks of atoms in a way that slows them down and… Read More »
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