This post was triggered by a story this week by True contributor Alexander Cohen, who properly wrote the slug (story title) in the form of a question: What Is Ignorance? “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven,’ this‘be thy name.’” That was one of the $200 answe...
“Well,maybe.” The Doctor clapped his hands and strode over to the console, flicking the first lever his fingers brushed against without even looking at it. “Right! Edinburgh. New Year’s Eve, 1999. Fireworks! Haggis! Aaaand…” He span on his heels, and the bottom of the kilt billo...
James wrote the first book in the NT. Peter is credited with the Gospel of Mark and his two books. They “knew” exactly who Jesus was! They had become fully convinced and needed no theological explanation. They finally understood! So much more should be considered. What I’ve written t...
In her autobiography, Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story, Handler wrote, "Barbie always represented the fact that a woman had choices." And in the Barbie movie, Ruth helps Barbie make her biggest one — becoming a real, human woman.
As I wrote some years ago about the San Francisco vigilance committee; “The image of a ‘vigilante’ most usually implies a disorganized mob; lawless, mindlessly violent, easily steered but ultimately uncontrollable. The Vigilance Committee was something much, much worse than that. They were ...
Ed Brush wrote a recommendation for me to the Honors Program in Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and I was accepted. It was a perfect path into the academic world. We had small classes and excellent professors; the standard at that time being that the first two years of...
I maybe wrote like 2 blog posts during that time. The rest of my words were for delicately crafted e-mails, intricately thought-through job roles, and explaining to Airbnb guests how to turn on the lights. There was a lot of forward momentum in my life and the work I was doing. ...
Anne was a scholar of sorts. In 1845, under the pseudonym Philomathes, she published abook,The Connexion between Revelation and Mythology Illustrated and Vindicated, which shows her fascination with Egyptian mythology. She also wrote essays for periodicals under the initials “X.Q.’ Her husband ...
” He would run his pudgy finger underneath the sentence, and she would read it and feel thoroughly put down. For God wrote the Bible, she would have been persuaded; and every word, even every word about murdering the suckling babies of your en...
Although Bond (who went by “Jim”) cared little for the 007 novels, Mary seemed to embrace the connection. She wrote to Fleming and coyly accused him of stealing her husband’s name: “It came to [Jim] as a surprise when we discovered in an interview inRoguemagazine that you had braz...