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This week, John Philip Newell has us considering the creatures, something my daughter Grace delights in every day. Admittedly, I don’t appreciate the pill bugs, toads, and garden snakes as avidly as Grace does (a side effect of what Darkwood Brew guest Bruce Epperly...
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America has been described as a nation overfed and undernourished. The “western diet” as it’s commonly called is typically characterized by a high intake of meat, sugar, saturated fats, and refined grains. Many of the food products on the grocery store shelves,...
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By now you have hopefully had time to explore the UCC’s Mission 4/1 Earth campaign, described by this week’s guest, Meighan Pritchard. While we frequently speak of our need to heal the Earth, we mustn’t overlook the many ways in which the Earth heals us. We need the...
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This morning was uninspiring at best. Awakened by a cranky two-year old who didn’t want to sleep but didn’t want to be fully awake either, I reluctantly rose from bed to confront a day as grey as my mood. Snow on the ground…cloudy, sunless sky above. Listless...
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In the last few weeks, our focus at Darkwood Brew has shifted from the macro (universe) to the micro (DNA and cells). This week, I was again awed as I listened to Darkwood Brew guest Professor Gayle Woloschak describe the extraordinary uses of nanotechnology in the...
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This week’s episode of Darkwood Brew explored, among other things, the human genome and the story of human evolution encoded in our DNA. Change is also written in the DNA of the Christian identity, is it not? At the core of our shared Christian faith is a story of...
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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, “Dust to dust,” some...
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When Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell travelled to space, he experienced an overwhelmingly profound sense of universal connectedness. In his own words, “The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident...
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are...
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If you watched Dennis Miller’s HBO talk show in the 1990s, you will certainly remember his infamous “rants” and you might remember one titled “Dysfunction” in which he described confronting dashed hopes in the following way, “It’s tough waking up from a deep REM...
