Horse and rider has the Lord overthrown in the desert, Horse and rider has He overthrown in Sinai, leaving their charred bodies to decompose in the burning sun. Tank and tankman has the Lord thrown down in the desert — twisted metal and rotting flesh...
In this season of Eastertide, we open our hearts to the possibility that justice will bloom in the desert. But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops. Everywhere in the land righteousness and justice will be done. Becau...
The strength of a nation is based not on its economic might but on its people loving and serving God within the parameters of the scriptures, for as Psalms 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD”. In other words, the safety and security of the families and homes ...
The camel is a mighty animal and was historically used for transportation in desert lands; thus, it earned the name “the ship of the desert.” Interes… Drones and the Future of Autonomous Vehicles 01 September 2013 | Halil I. Demir | Issue 95 (September - October 2013) It’s a bir...
When I hiked through the spectacular desert landscapes of Utah last year, I can remember where I was for so many things. That when the sun rose on my trip’s second day, I was standing on an observation point at Bryce Canyon – absorbing the way the ghostly hoodoo towers materialized fro...
Being an Arizona “desert rat” my vision of getting rid of snow was with a wide shovel and a tired arm. I used that method on the first storm. Then I discovered the art of “snow sweeping” as described in an earlier blog article. One of the numbered storms came on March 16th –...
God says, ‘Behold I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.’” ...
The next morning, the start of our last full day in Uzbekistan, we left at 8:30 for Nukus, still further west across still more desert. Back in the late ’90s, when I first became interested in visiting Central Asia, Nukus was not on most itineraries, except perhaps as a gateway to ...
you can still withdraw from the world to wage without distraction the interior struggle for authenticity, what St. Benedict called the “single-handed combat of the wilderness.” Inspired by the desert hermits of Late Antiquity, many British ascetics took flight to wild and lonely places in the...
Chemists have not merely isolated the alkaloid; they have learned how to synthesize it, so that the supply no longer depends on the sparse and intermittent crop of a desert cactus. Alienists have dosed themselves with mescalin in the hope thereby of coming to a better, a first-hand, ...