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As promised, here is the follow-up to yesterday’s post. Countless people have written and are writing on the topics I have focused on in my blog. Below is a selection of the books, writers and other resources than have been important and valuable for my thinking and writing over the years.
Church: The late Episcopal bishop, John Shelby Spong
I have decided it’s time to step back from this blogging project of mine, at least for a while. I have been writing essays like these, usually in my congregation’s weekly newsletter, for about twenty years. After retiring, I continued my writing by creating this blog. In those 21 months, I enjoyed that writing and was rewarded in doing so, and I know many of you felt ...
“Garbage in, garbage out” (or GIGO) is a computer saying from way back. It refers to the truth—not always obvious—that a computer with bad programing or bad data will not and cannot produce a good output. Computers are not magic. Their value is completely dependent on the quality of what is put into them. (And the same goes for AI, incidentally.)
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Near the midpoint of the 1962 blockbuster film Lawrence of Arabia, the title character, T. E. Lawrence, makes a harrowing journey across the Sinai wilderness to tell his commander, General Allenbee, he had led an Arab force and captured the Turkish stronghold city of Aqaba. At last, an exhausted Lawrence cl...
The praise and accolades have been pouring in from around the world for Dolly Parton following her death this past Monday. And rightly so. She was universally recognized as a uniquely talented and remarkably good and generous person. Despite her seemingly perfect “Red State” pedigree—Appalachian roots and country music stardom—she genuinely transcended political divis...