I started writing twenty-seven years ago when a friend asked me to discuss whether good scientists could also be Christian. Her daughter had been told by a high school Biology teacher that this was not possible. Since my father was a pioneer NASA scientist my friend felt that I’d have something to say. This conversation [...]
Absolutely spaced out …
I completely forgot that today was blog day. Have a picture or two.
The Lord is Risen! Alleluia!
I had a lovely Easter with good food and small children and lovely relatives for about twenty-seven hours. In that time I washed several particular dishes and cooking pots three or four times because they were the thing I kept needing. I'm still doing the last of the dishes from Monday night. It was the [...]
O Happy Fault, that earned … so glorious a Redeemer…
Christ on the Cross with Pope Pius II. c. 1475. German artist, unnamed. The verses around the picture are a hymn to Our Blessed Mother written by someone known as the Monk of Salzburg, who lived in the late 1300's. This monk wrote both sacred and secular music in German. More or less one hundred [...]
spring is sprung
Almost Easter. Away from my desk. When I consider the work of Thy Hands, what is man that Thou art mindful of him... Lenten roses More daffodils.