Tracking COVID-19 with Gnuplot

Posted on Sat 11 April 2020 in Programming

See this on GitHub with data updates!

I've been wanting to visualize how cases of COVID-19 in New Hampshire are progressing. The State of New Hampshire puts out a daily updates with this information, but it's in narrative form and scattered across PDF files uploaded daily.

So, I decided to …


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Maundy Thursday Reflection

Posted on Thu 09 April 2020 in Worship

Picture: Garden of Gethsemane, 2020

Picture: Communion service with New England United Methodist Conference, Garden of Gethsemane, February 2020

"Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint" (Isaiah 40:31).

As many …


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Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester

Posted on Fri 03 April 2020 in Worship

Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester


Palm Sunday Reflection

Posted on Thu 02 April 2020 in Theology

Picture: Palm tree with dates, Mount of Olives, 2020

Palm tree with dates, Mount of Olives, 2020

In the Gospels, Jesus' followers cut palm branches for his way into Jerusalem. In the Bible, palm branches are associated with the celebration of the Festival of Booths or Sukkot (Lev. 23:40).

But the Festival of Booths is a fall festival …


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Mike Pence on Healing the Land

Posted on Mon 23 March 2020 in Theology

Vice President Mike Pence prays with the White House Coronavirus task force, Feb 26, 2020.

At today's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Vice President Mike Pence closed his remarks with the words "heal the land." This phrase has a lot of resonance among charismatic evangelical Christians. I'll explain:

The relevant verse here is 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people, which are called by …


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