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  Thursday, April 14, 2005


It is VERY hard taking this time away from blogging, but I am committed to making myself stay away until May 1st. This time is good for me, like medicine. However, I have an agreement with Christian Century to publicize work of mine that they publish. So here's an essay at CC online.

Going Down With The Ship

I will go down with this ship.
And I won't put my hands up and surrender.
There will be no white flag above my door.   (Dido)

We will all go down on one ship or another because we have no idea how we came to be on this ball of feverish algae and germs that endlessly circles the star we call Sol. We have no idea why Sol exists in a spiral arm of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. And we don’t know enough to even phrase the questions in meaningful ways...

Click here to read this essay at The Christian Century online.

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