At State College Presbyterian this morning, Dean Lindsey was preaching from Luke 14:1-6, where Jesus, on his way to a fancy meal with "a leader of the Pharisees" on the sabbath, pauses to heal a man with "dropsy". This is the set-up to another confrontation about healing on the sabbath, of course, but I confess that I had never paused to think about what "dropsy" might be and what significance could be found in this particular ailment. Dean's message really grabbed my attention. (Afterwards, I went to the big commentary on Luke by Joel Green, where I found the same information developed further.)
The Anthropic Biodiversity Principle
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When I proposed ten tenets of a new “religion” around life a few months
back, the first tenet on the list said: The universe is not here for us, or
because...
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