July 5, 2021
July 11 | Application
The Book wasn’t lost as much as it was neglected and taken for granted—hidden in plain sight. It had been there in the temple all along, but no one was paying attention to it.
Articles for tag: Isaac Newton
May 25, 2017
Other Worlds, Fond Memories, and Lessons
By LeRoy Lawson The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Grand Haven: Brilliance Audio, 2016 The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick New York: HarperTorch, 2011 The Shepherd”s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape James Rebanks New York: Flatiron Books, 2015 OK, go ahead and laugh. Here I am, a great-grandfather, hanging on to every word of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, without a child nearby to provide cover for me. Maybe there”s truth in this “second childhood” charge after all. Or, the hypothesis I prefer, maybe there”s something special about the story.
September 29, 2016
To Kill or to Keep an Intriguing Idea?
By LeRoy Lawson This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress John Brockman, editor New York: Harper Perennial, 2015 The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe Thomas Levenson New York: Random House, 2015 The Cross and the Lynching Tree James H. Cone Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2013 (reprint) So you are running into resistance to change in your church, are you? So you believe religion alone is the great resister of new ideas, do you? So you”ve been thinking science, on the contrary, is always based on objective, bias-free research and
