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Farm Stand
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-12-02)
"Are we there yet?" is an ancient complaint/question most parents have endured more than a few times. Eventually, in my family of origin, there were six potential complainers. Each August all eight of us headed to northern ...
A Deafening Noise
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-01)
I am not a musicologist and actually I do not know what that is really.|How does a D-minor differ from a D-seventh? I do know a few finger shiftings on a guitar. I figured one thing out though. The note which begins a ...
Making Waves
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-04-15)
I was sitting recently on the end of a pier at a beautiful lake in northern Wisconsin. A quite large speed boat zoomed by and a little while later its noisy waves began slapping my contemplative shore. Then a canoe with ...
Statistics Class
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-05-13)
It is normal to want to know how we're doing. We often ask people in greeting just how they are doing. They normally do not give you anything but a standard flat answer of being "pretty good" or "could do better", or a ...
Lights Off
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-10-14)
I have a friend who is gravitationally challenged, that is he's God's little acre. He figures that according to Einstein's theory, energy results from MC squared, so that the more the mass the more the energy. He is ...
Ratatouille
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-24)
One definition of a human is "Homo ludens", that is "beings who are playing". Chaucer wrote about a group of pilgrims who while walking along had to play by competitively telling funny or serious stories about each other. ...
Who Am I?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-11-25)
Let me throw something at you. "Jection" is not really a word; it needs some help such as a preposition to precede it. "Sub" "pro", "de","re", and "ob", all assist to form definite meanings. Subjection is literally to ...
Ebb and Flow
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-26)
Oceans are a tremendous rolling mystery. Standing on the shore one can imagine all the creatures swimming or resting in the salty vastness. Ships, treasures, caverns, mountains and all other kinds of unknowns are hidden ...
Hands and Faces
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-08-12)
A natural physical response to making a mistake or in other ways looking foolish or humiliated is to cover our countenance with our hands. This would literally be a "face-saving" device. Shame is losing face or in some way ...
May I Have a Menu Please?
(Creighton University, Online Ministries, 2014-06-10)
The seven members of our small community had to go out to dinner recently, because the automatic dishwasher, after twenty-five years, gave up the soapy ghost. Why didn't we just wash the dinner dishes by hand? We're not ...