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A Gnome’s tale (Dale)

Once upon a time, I met a friendly lawn gnome named Willy. I happened upon him when trimming the bushes along the side of my house – nearly slashed the poor little guy with my electric trimmer. I quickly apologized, and asked him to come inside and have a beer with me. Willy graciously accepted, [...]

Posted 04 January 2010 † Dale § History § Incarnation ‡ Comments (2) °

Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 16 – Mysterious Interpretations (Dale)

“When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.” Ex. 31:18

Once upon a time, there was a smallish branch of Christians, now nearly forgotten to history, called the Fingerites, inhabitants of Obscurantia (formerly part [...]

Posted 15 August 2008 † Dale § Bible § Heresy & Orthodoxy § Mystery ‡ Comments (1) °

Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 6 – Restraint, implicit belief, and Stalin (Dale)

Good old, mass-murdering, cheese-burger-scarfing Uncle Joe. (image credit)
A story about implicit faith…
Once upon a time, there was a virtuous and patriotic Russian peasant named Georgy. Georgy lived a simple life among simple people, in a village so far out in the boondocks of the USSR that World War II – what Russians call the Great [...]

Posted 26 June 2008 † Dale § Philosophy ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged:

Goofus and Gallant, Grok and Sophie (Dale)

Saith Grok: “Love thy neighbor, and buyest thou all thine goods at WalMart.”
Is Allah God? Are Christians and Muslims talking about (numerically) the same God? We’ve previously linked and joined in with discussions with Jeremy Pierce and with Kevin Corcoran.
To further the discussion, I present a tale to explain why I think it [...]

Posted 10 June 2008 † Dale § Heresy & Orthodoxy § History § Housekeeping § Linkage § Philosophy ‡ Comments (2) °