While I am away to Strasbourg, you will see periodic posts from the last semester. I finally got around to uploading them for your perusal. I’ll be back on the 21st. Happy Independence Day!
Book Review: “Religion on Trial”
Craig A. Parton
Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2008
Thesis: Christianity is the only world religion that can withstand rigorous examination using the evidentiary methods employed in law, history, or science and so be a trusted truth claim.
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Oldest image of St Paul discovered – Telegraph
The fresco, which dates back to the 4th Century AD, was discovered during restoration work at the Catacomb of Saint Thekla but was kept secret for ten days.
During that time experts carefully removed centuries of grime from the fresco with a laser, before the news was officially announced through the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
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Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives
The day will come when “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will be studied in film classes and shown at cult film festivals. It will be seen, in retrospect, as marking the end of an era. Of course there will be many more CGI-based action epics, but never again one this bloated, excessive, incomprehensible, long (149 minutes) or expensive (more than $200 million). Like the dinosaurs, the species has grown too big to survive, and will be wiped out in a cataclysmic event, replaced by more compact, durable forms.
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Haak Family Vacation 2009 photo album
I swapped out Anne’s video/still camera (Canon HF100) with a still/video camera (Lumix DMC-ZS3). The stills are better by far and the video nearly comparable. Excellent. Enjoy these tidbits from our vacation (click the title for the HD version):
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I’m back from vacation. Anne left already to help her sister for a couple days. Ethan and Elsie are doing a piano camp every day so they stayed with me. I’m trying in vain to recover from the piles on and near my desk. They amounted before the vacation and grew coming back. Plus, keeping the two older ones entertained takes occasional attention. They want three meals a day and ideas of stuff to do. We did a bunch of chores Sunday after Mom left then watched a movie and popcorn. Today was less eventful. I tried to do a few loads of laundry, keep the dishes clean, run an errand, and dig through the desk. I was mostly successful.
Anne gets back on Wednesday, then its a mad dash to prep for Strasbourg. I’m nowhere near where I wanted to be at this point.
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