Wednesday, October 10, 2012

10/10/44, a Day of Sad Memories

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“ Double Ten ” (10/10) is a special day for many Chinese in Taiwan, and elsewhere, because of the Chinese Revolution which began on...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Commemorating a Golden Anniversary

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It was 50 years ago this month, on October 11, 1962, that the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) opened in St. Peter’s Basilica. Convoked ...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

A Skewed Thinking Reed

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“ Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed .” That is o ne of the most widely known of Blaise Pascal’s ...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

On the Verge of World War III?

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Increasingly, it looks as if the question is not If but When . And the question is about a preemptive attack on Iran, seeking to dest...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Barton Up the Wrong Tree

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Maybe I had heard of him before, but my real introduction to David Barton came at the annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention i...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Mrs. Fukuoka of Fukuoka, Fukuoka

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Fukuoka is written with two kanji (Chinese characters): fuku that means good fortune and oka that means hill . So literally Fukuo...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

"2016"

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Talk about a contrast! Last week I went to see the movie “2016: Obama’s America” on the same day the Democratic National Convention began. ...
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