Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester
Posted on Fri 03 April 2020 in Worship
Palm Sunday Reflection
Posted on Thu 02 April 2020 in Theology
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
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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Palindromic Numbers
Posted on Sat 21 March 2020 in Math
A palindromic number is a number that is the same, backwards and forwards, e.g. 12321. It so happens that for almost all numbers, repeatedly adding a number to its reverse eventually produces a palindromic number. For example:
78 + 87 = 165
165 + 561 = 726
726 + 627 = 1353
1353 + 3531 = 4884 …
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