Saturday, March 05, 2005

Mount Kilimanjaro Report

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Friends Nancy Beck, Jim Ball, and a group of fellow Cincinnatians have returned from their climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. This blog presents s...

Keeping Sudan on the Front Burner

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For keeping informed on Sudan, this remains a great web resource.

A Gem Extracted from the Mother Lode of Pain

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Gordon Atkinson is one of the best writers on the web. His piece, A Fate Worse Than Death is a moving recounting of a painful experience fo...

Genius Loves Listening

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Tonight, good friends presented a copy of the late Ray Charles' CD, Genius Loves Company , recently honored with a Grammy. I'm alrea...

Who is Ed Chen? And Could He Be Reading 'Better Living'?

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Earlier this evening, I was reading the transcript of last evening's edition of Jim Lehrer's weekly conversation with David Brooks a...
Friday, March 04, 2005

Submitting to Another?

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What might it mean for our lives to willingly be submissive to others? It's certainly a countercultural notion and one that Tod Bolsinge...

What I Do When I Feel Blue

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This is being written on the fly, in blogger and columnist James Lileks' Daily Bleat style . If punctuation, spelling, or grammatical e...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Join a Church with Those Pesky Humans

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The Jolly Blogger has posted an interesting piece on the importance of being part of Christian fellowships composed of real-life, enfleshed...

The Promise and the Perils of Democracy, Part 1

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We've witnessed some extraordinary things in the past few weeks! The people of Ukraine have broken with their despotic past, overruled a...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Reflections on Realizing That People Actually Read What I Write

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Everyone who writes, whether they write songs, novels, magazine columns, screenplays, poetry, news analysis, or blogs, have one thing in com...

I Was a Good Influence...

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on my brother, comedian Marty Daniels . Born almost three years after the Beatles' first appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show , Marty is ...

Lileks at Lunch Again

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Because I fasted for a physical examination that happened earlier today, I'm taking a late, micro-length lunch, mostly emailing work stu...

Jerry Brown Still Thinks Oakland Needs a Curfew

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Check out his latest blog entry .

I Tell Her She's a Hipster...

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but Ann Althouse says that neither the Oscars or American Idol are particularly hip. That only makes me feel more out of it. I didn't ...

Two-or-Three Provides Evidence of Reliability of New Testament Accounts of Jesus

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Two-or-Three(.net) presents an excellent summary of information from a Lee Strobel book, The Case for Christ , in upholding the historicity...

Check Out the Thoughtful Work of Deborah White

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Deborah White is a liberal Democrat, an evangelical Christian, a blogger , a fine writer, and a regular visitor to Better Living . She's...
Monday, February 28, 2005

Goal-Setting, A Christian Approach, An Unexpected Part 6

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Recently, I completed a five-part series on Goal-Setting from a Christian Perspective on this blog. But in the past few days, it's struc...

Who's the President's Anti-Model When It Comes to Social Security Reform?

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Politicians are as likely to operate from anti-models as they from models. For example, Ronald W. Reagan is a model for George W. Bush. He t...
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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Music Born with Elvis? Or Did It Die with Him?

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The cover story of the March, 2005 issue of American Heritage magazine commemorates the seventieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's birth ...

Is NASA Press for Launch Squeezing Out Safety Concerns?

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I'm a huge fan of space exploration. But is NASA so anxious to make the May 15 launch of the shuttle Discovery a go, that it's lax ...