Sunday, March 29, 2009

Bible study – Jesus was anti-capitalist

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OK, in a previous Bible study, I said Jesus was clearly a socialist, not a capitalist. But, Luke 16 takes it further; middle management gets...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Brains pushing the envelope

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Not some particular brains, but all brains. Our dura matter operates “ on the edge of chaos , new studies show. And the results have some in...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Music IS the universal language

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Turns out sub-Saharan Africans can pick out the likely emotional state reflected by particular items of Western music , even people who may ...

Bible study – Jesus was a SOCIALIST! (I think)J

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No, don’t let the success theologians, or the fundamentalists and others who are willfully wedded at the hip to the GOP, tell you Jesus is a...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Religion-based abstinence-only sex-ed fails in Texas – my take

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From my March 12 newspaper column: If politics and religion are the two verboten conversation topics, then, on an editorial page, perhaps “s...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Josephus made up the Essenes

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So says Israeli scholar Rachel Elior, who teaches Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University. Then, who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Zadokite...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dreams mean – what you want and expect them to

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That’s the bottom-line answer from the latest social science research into the field. We may still not know WHY we dream, but as to what dr...