Monday, May 14, 2012

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

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     Jim Elliot, of course, as cited in some detail by the Archives of the Billy Graham Center at Elliot's alma mater, Wheaton College ....
Saturday, May 12, 2012

"The great achievement is to lose one's reason for no reason. . . ."

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"'a knight errant deserves neither glory nor thanks if he goes mad for a reason.  The great achievement is to lose one's reason...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

"the inference that makes science": the abduction/retroduction inclusive of deduction, induction, and abduction/retroduction in the narrow sense

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"Peirce was the first [in history] to say straightforwardly that to deduction and induction, we must add a third (which he variously na...

"Your grace, come back, Señor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep!"

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Douce Blog, Ashmolean      Sancho Panza, in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote I.xviii (trans. Edith Grossman (New York:  HarperCollins P...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

On the recurrence of the paschal feast

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William Pye, Baptismal font, Salisbury Cathedral (2008) . "God of everlasting mercy, who, in the very recurrence  of the paschal fe...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Those bloodthirsty medieval popes

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"we believe in and confess one God, even if in a different way, and we praise and worship Him daily as the Creator of time and the rule...

"like a cow staring at a new gate"

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Center Line Highway Products Supply      "Joseph is for us not only an example of all the virtues, but also a lovely image of God f...