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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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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