Collecting My Thoughts

Friday, February 28, 2025

Save us, Oh God, for the waters have risen to our necks--Psalm 69

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 Excuse, please, if I take some liberties with pronouns (everyone else is), because the filth is too awful to use a mild word like swamp or ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Rare earth metals put there by God

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Q. Why would God place rare earth metals mainly in China and Russia-occupied Ukraine for a time in world history when they had become essen...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Watching movies on Hallmark

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 I was bored with politics and Antiques Roadshow reruns so I found some good movies to watch.  From Wikipedia-- Riding the Bus with My Siste...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Learning from podcasts

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Not to repeat myself, but I will. I benefit from the All-in podcast. Even the parts I don't understand. It's definitely a peek into ...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Two of my favorite podcasts

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Two of my go-to podcasts are Megyn Kelly and All-In. Megyn can be a bit of a potty mouth--and that's definitely a negative and I'm n...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Beatitudes in Luke 6

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  ESV Luke 6:20-24   And   he lifted up his eyes on his disciples,   and said:  “Blessed are you who are poor, for   yours is the kingdom of...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

This is handy: a recent reading history (actually a skimming history)

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My recent reading history--but mostly skimming Way Out of the Tunnel? Three Hundred Years of Research on the Apocrypha: A Preliminary Approa...
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Christian agencies and the USAID

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Many small and large Christian organizations that have accepted contracts with USAID are going to be hurting.  1) They've taken tainted...
Friday, February 07, 2025

Do we need the White House in our faith journey?

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"Trump said on Thursday he would create a White House faith office and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force on eradic...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

The little people within the grant system

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I woke up this morning thinking about the "little people" at the bottom rung of these government (USAID for instance) grants who h...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

I worked on a grant from USAID!

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I do recognize the USAID because it helped me build my career and move to the next step, which was from agriculture credit, to OhioNet, to v...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

Trump's keeping his promises

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I'm exhausted. Trump has been in office just shy of 2 weeks and I can't keep track of the wins, of the promises kept and the things ...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

The confirmation hearings

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  I watched some of Kash Patel's Senate questioning this morning and was surprised to hear that at least one Senator, a Democrat of cour...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

What's with DeepSeek?

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The “Hard Fork” podcast released a bonus episode titled “Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod” on Tuesday, January 28, 202...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

What do you think of the tech guys kissing the ring?

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I don't like seeing the tech giants standing behind Trump at the inauguration, however, I suppose that's better than standing on his...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Home Warranty scam alert

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We received a post card yesterday from Home Warranty Division County Deed Records. Lots of numbers and looking very official, ID # and pin ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Bishop and the President

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  About a year ago I signed up for a database of abstracts/pdf of articles on Ben Sira/Sirach of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Amazing immigrants

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What an amazing rise and list of achievements for Indian Americans. Kamala Harris, daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants; Usha Chiluku...

What a week! January 20, 2025

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What an incredible week. Hostages were released to the arms of their family and country. Donald J. Trump is inaugurated for a 2nd term with ...

Weather for Inauguration Day 2025

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The weather warnings were accurate. I think it's about 4 degrees in Columbus, and probably worse east of us. I'm glad they moved the...
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Preferring truth to custom, the better to the good, adapt to adopt, reform to revolution, solutions to goals, knowledge to awareness, faith to spirituality. The rules.
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