Can you believe?

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Have mercy

Master of Alkmaar, The Seven Works of Mercy, ca. 1504, polyptych (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum); source.To be "merciful" is to demonstrate

4 min read 2022-12-09 14:59:00

A few days ago, I saw the made-for-TV docudrama Nuremberg, an extremely compressed three-hour dramatization of the postwar International Military

6 min read 2022-12-02 14:58:00

Half of U.S. Protestant churchgoers (50 percent) say they’d prefer to attend a church where people share their political views, and 55 percent

7 min read 2022-11-25 16:28:00

to USA readers:Thanksgiving blessings!Sources: left, right. Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land and Emma Donoghue's The Wonder are two of the most

5 min read 2022-11-18 06:58:00

The protostar within the dark cloud L1527. Estimate of its age: practically a newborn, only 100,000 years old. Image from NASA’s James Webb Space

3 min read 2022-11-11 03:50:00

There's something you could do that would make this blog post/review a lot easier to write. And it will only cost you $20 plus postage, and perhaps a

4 min read 2022-11-04 06:39:00

If there’s one thing Christians have in common, it’s arguing about what it means to be a Christian! This book is a contribution to that argument,

4 min read 2022-10-28 13:59:00

The Atlantic graphic accompanying this article:"How Elon Musk could actually kill Twitter.""Elon Musk reportedly fires top Twitter

4 min read 2022-10-21 13:55:00

Screenshots from Russian state TV talk show60 Minutes. Sources: first three; fourth.A widely-reposted excerpt from Russian channel Rossiya-1's news

4 min read 2022-10-14 13:59:00

Once upon a time, my Friends World Committee colleague and mentor Gordon Browne wrote an article for Quaker Life magazine in which he mentioned the

5 min read 2022-10-07 13:58:00

I began my day yesterday watching the launch of Crew-5 from Cape Canaveral. They arrived this morning at the International Space Station. Aboard the

5 min read 2022-09-30 13:54:00

Zdes' i seichas ("Here and Now") presenter Valeria Ratnikova interviews sociologist Grigory Yudin.Screenshot from source.The lead story on

7 min read 2022-09-23 10:58:00

Top: "Serving Russia is real work." Source.Ever since Vladimir Putin's announcement yesterday morning (Moscow time) of a partial

4 min read 2022-09-16 13:59:00

Queen Elizabeth II (UK) and King Olav V (Norway) in Stavanger, 1981. Source.My one encounter with royalty was totally by chance. On Thursday,

3 min read 2022-09-08 18:59:00

Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom is credited with saying “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” Dozens