RIP Walter Cronkite
July 18, 2009
- Even if you're too young to remember him as a news anchor, you can read about him in every newspaper and see clips of him on television. I was just a young girl when JFK was shot, but I remember hearing Cronkite's voice break when he announced the death of our young president. I remember his childlike glee when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. I remember watching the news with my ...
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July 17, 2009
- When I was in fourth grade, our teacher decided to have us all write a little biography of ourselves. Every Monday, a student would post what they wrote about themselves, and other students would add their own words and descriptions. I'm quite sure I was the only ten-year-old in that room who wrote about the Jonestown Massacre and Three Mile Island. I wouldn't have blamed my teacher for ordering ...
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July 17, 2009
- Today's featured articleon Wikipediais about this treatise, published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1806. This is the title page, and it is wonderful to me for so many reasons. I'll just say here that I love the idea of a theology that is reasonable, fabulous, and true. I'm still waiting for that kind of enlightenment, and sometimes I'm envious of people I know who have found it. The world in ...
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