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From “Big Bang” to Bible Reading

By MLJ • Feb 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for what some scientists have heralded as “the greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time.”
They claim to have found the ultimate proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe’s origins by discovering faint variations in […]



When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

By MLJ • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: Articles

When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you feed a stray cat and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you make […]



Are You Homophobic?

By MLJ • Jan 20th, 2008 • Category: Articles

It has become the ultimate word to denote an ignorant, narrow minded, religious bigot. Words are incredibly powerful. Words are the vehicles through which ideas, concepts and values are delivered. If you say it often enough, from a broad enough platform, with enough “respectable” voices…. it will become acceptable. Soon, it will become respectable.For a […]



My Prayer For You

By MLJ • Dec 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles

Paul loved the church in Ephesus… and they loved him. They prayed and cried together when they came to the beach to see his ship off to Jerusalem, knowing this would be the last time they would see him. Now, very likely from a jail cell, Paul writes back to his friends- his spiritual family- […]



Thanks for the Welcome

By MLJ • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Articles

Have you ever been so overwhelmed that you don’t know what to say? That’s what Janis and I are feeling now. I’m not talking about being overwhelmed because of the moving and all the boxes… even though that is a bit daunting. (As of this writing, the downstairs boxes are gone! I’m pretty impressed with […]