"Hefner's Playmates—and, in the culture he has done so much to shape, all women—are primarily visual objects, metaphysically truncated to their improbable physical attributes.
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So quickly, the days of Summer speed by. And then it’s over. And then it’s Autumn.
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The brain doesn’t like logical, rational, conscious thinking - and will take any shortcut it can.
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Resurrection and Ascension – Because He lives, we shall live also; because He was raised, so shall we be. Already Christ, the first of a new race has entered fully into the New Creation.
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I'm not a scientist - don't pretend to be, but I've done a lot of reading over the years - about cosmology, evolution, theories of creation, climate change, and so on.
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The Milky Way is our 'galactic home.'
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“Teach us to number our days that we might apply our hearts unto wisdom.” – Psalm 90: 12
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Each summer flies by - too quickly. I love the Seasons and in one sense welcome and farewell them as they come and go. But Summer's parting leaves one especially whistful.
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They say that our body's blood system, if laid end to end, would circle the equator four times. You could look it up.
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An advertizing send-up. Maybe some day.
Tochar Studios inspiration and resources at lauriebarber.ca
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Hoping more and more people will find, be inspired and helped by Tochar Studioes resource materials, at lauriebarber.ca
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Yes, hard as it may be to believe (to get my head around), there was a day when I looked like this. Way, way back - circa 1973 when I was still in Seminary.
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A brief 'card intro' to Tochar Studios.
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Recently, scientists have observed the moment of conception when a sperm meets an egg, noting that in that instant there occurs a bright flash of light.
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I don't pretend to understand much if anything of what this video is talking about, but I think it may describe a very important discovery that will add greatly to our understanding of how the worl
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Apparently one cannot change the past, nor yet the future - but only the ‘now.’
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As Christians, we live in this in-between mean-while, believing and hoping in God and His better Future even when so much of the evidence seems to be to the contrary. St.
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Christian 'mission' includes setting up 'sign posts' of Kingdom-present and Kingdom-coming, giving glimpses and examples of what it can be - will be, like when the fullness of God's purposes and Hi
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Well, here's an article about the mind (click here) that will make you go, 'Hmmmm.' Or: 'Say What?!'
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I read articles (such as the following) about the wonder that is quantum physics, as through comtemporary scientific observation, discovery and theory we try to comprehend it.
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John O'Donohue was an Irish poet and philosopher. His book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend" (paperback, 1998) has been very well received and I too have found it very helpful.
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We are 'wee bits of pipe' (my words) through which flows the Living Water, the Holy Spirit, from the lives of Jesus' followers to touch the lives of those around us.
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The full poem written by Amy Carmichael may be found here.
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God's Kingdom is - well, different from what we often imagine or even want. In God's Kingdom, less may be more.
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A clean, clear and sound inner life
so important to us all
and vital to a life of faith.
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The origin of the word for ‘blessing’ in the ancient Semitic (including Hebrew), was in the root b-r-k.
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Here are some words from the book we all love [I John 3:1 – 3].
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In an article in the Toronto Star, Irish author Colm Toibin was interviewed about his new novel, “Nora Roberts.” I was struck by a comment by the author about one of the book's final scenes in whic
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'For God so loved the cosmos . . .' surely means that the whole creation, damaged as it is, will be restored and brought to new creation fulness.
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