For the second Sunday of Epiphany the Gospel reading is John 1:43-51. Interestingly, the text has a sub-tectonic level thick with Jacob. One notices that when Nathaniel comes to Jesus he says in verse 47: "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" This seems to connect in with Jacob...

"QUANTUM SHOT" #518 Link - article by M. Christian and Avi Abrams Wild, Wild Planets We've seen the worst that Earth climate can offer (see our "Extreme Weather" series), but what if you're an apocalypse junkie, and don't really want to pack your bags and head to Kansas to cruise inside a tornado-ch...

It's a classic image from every youngster's science textbook: a cutaway image of Earth's interior. The brown crust is paper-thin; the warm mantle orange, the seething liquid of the outer core yellow, and at the center the core, a ball of solid, red-hot iron. Now a new theory aims to rewrite it all b...

Green Comes Clean The global warming alarmist in chief has unveiled the environmentalists' real objective. And no, protecting the planet is not their top concern. In a letter addressed to President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, ...

The Drama of Scripture: The King and his Kingdom This is the text of a talk I will give this evening at 'church'. This is the first in a series based on a brilliant book by Mike Goheen and Craig Bartholomew The Drama of Scripture. Tonight we will look at the King and the creation of his Kingdom - th...

I took a three day break to try and calm a badly jangled political soul but, as we all know, current events have not cooperated. Not 24 hours after baby Jesus day the Israelis went berserk with American-made ordnance, and then Blagojevich tossed a political grenade to produce a scenario where Harry ...

There are those in the ink on paper media that seek help from the government in the way of a 'bail out' for their failing form of publication.  This from 31 DEC 2008 article at al-Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But ...

What does 2009 hold for us all? More than usual it's wise to admit we don't know, but that, collectively speaking at least, it will probably be nasty. That much we do know. But as Donald Rumsfeld was unfairly mocked for remarking – no need to feel sorry for him – there are things out there that ...

One of the leading experts on planet Earth, James Lovelock,  believes that there is very little we can do to stave off global warming catastrophes. Lovelock is the man who created the Gaia theory – that the earth is essentially a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single o...

Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- The New Statesman publishes a ringing and defiant defence of Le Corbusier, in my book one of the most destructive and pernicious artists of all time. The writer, Jonathan Meades, can't resist accusing those who dislike Le Corbusier of being "tectonically bl...