Mid-Point

I want to sail around the world on the equator
Sail right to the heart of your matter
I would burn my listing ship down on your shores
With my life a wreck and my sails in tatters

You come close through the slow sway of the tall grass
As sharp as all the points of the compass
I would [...]

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New Location

If you are interested in reading Balaam’s Ass, the new location is www.talkingdonkey.wordpress.com. Please update your links accordingly. We’re downsizing a bit, but it feels like a new beginning. Still working on getting the archives from here moved over there. See you soon.
Timotheos

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Can you tell me how…

I’m wondering if anyone can tell me how to export my archives to my hard drive in order to upload them to the new WordPress blog. I cannot find an export link on Movable Type. Is there a manual way to do it?
Timotheos

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Moving On

Well, we’ve been here for two and a half years–hard to believe!–but it seems that Worldmagblog is moving on without us. This is part of the message that came to me in response to my inquiry about why we were no longer on the main site: “Because WorldMagBlog is a non-profit organization, we have [...]

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Cider House Rules

A question for those of you who have seen the movie The Cider House Rules. (I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how different it is.) It seems pretty clear to me that the “Cider house rules” are a metaphor for heteronomous rules, or rules that come from outside us. [...]

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Absolution for Pastors

I commend to you my good brother’s post on Confession and Absolution.
Timotheos

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Good Editorial

Strange place for it, but this editorial on the likes of Harris and Dawkins is good. Frankly, if I wasn’t doing it already, I would almost raise my children as Christians just to spite them.
Timotheos

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Don’t Worry, They’re Too Small to Care

What is it with Great Britain and hospital beds? Perhaps this is the same issue, but they decided against putting it in terms of money and beds.
Despite medical advances in prolonging life, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics said the chances of an infant surviving after less than 22 weeks in the womb are very [...]

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Sam Harris Takes On Everything

I’m seeing Sam Harris’ name everywhere. First it was Newsweek and “The New Naysayers.” Then it was Wired Magazine and “The New Atheists.” (Do these magazines share writers?) Now it’s Newsweek again.
On his new platform, Sam Harris rehashes his book The End of Faith (or Letter to a Christian Nation; doesn’t [...]

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“It’s Not Dark Yet, But It’s Getting There”

Well, things pretty much suck all the way around. Politics is politics, however, and Democrats winning the House and (probably) the Senate does not mean the end of the world. But Amendment 2 might. It passed by 51% (the side that spent $30 million) to 49% (the side that spent $3 million), [...]

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