By Henry Neufeld
I was interested in watching the reactions to the debate the other night. No, I didn’t watch it, so I’m not going to give any opinion about who won or lost, or who was right.
But in the blogs to which I subscribe I found two posts that were very interesting to me. The [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Just to be honest, I probably would have in any case.
Tony from Thoughts from the Heart on the Left tagged me with the meme created by L. L. Barkat, so here goes, as I break rules.
I’m going to copy the rules from Tony’s post rather than the original, just to be a bit perverse. [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Andrew Lamb has commented on a post I wrote back in July. I have responded to most of the comment there, but he references an article of his own, Immeasurable Age, and it employs an approach that, while I do not think it has merit, is so common in both public discourse and apologetics, [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Up, folks, always up.
Those who know me as a moderate (which I prefer) or as a liberal (which I am often called) may be surprised to know that I started my political activism by working in the campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1976 when he ran against Gerald Ford. It was the first presidential [...]
By Henry Neufeld
That’s mixed feelings about health care and feelings about a mixed system of health care, in case you were wondering.
I’ve expressed my ambivalence about health care previously. While I hope for an ideal situation in which a certain level of health care is available to everyone regardless of ability to pay, I also want [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I hope that this topic gets more attention before the election. Christine has some thoughts here and I share many of her concerns and those expressed in the referenced article.
By Henry Neufeld
Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006. 538 pp. ISBN: 0-8028-3162-1.
I would remind my readers again that I am writing some notes on my experience of reading this book and not a formal review.
I requested this book via interlibrary loan because it [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I realize that journalists write confused stories and that headline writers produce stupid headlines to go with them, but I would think that academic or scientific organizations, irrespective of subject, should be able to be more sensible.
It may not be so. “Firing” is, of course, my own overblown headline, provided you regard essentially forcing [...]
By Henry Neufeld
First I want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with the folks who experienced Hurricane Ike. Having lived through a couple of interesting storms, such as Ivan and Dennis, I empathize with their position. I’m not very good at writing condolence blog posts, largely because I think they are empty gestures [...]
By Henry Neufeld
So much of the way in which we understand language, not to mention pretty much everything else, is simply context.
Thanks to the folks at Language Log we have a discussion of how Sarah Palin was taken out of context when some claimed that she thought we were on a God ordained mission in Iraq. [...]
: “It’s short, unimportant and uninteresting.” That will show him! (
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