Monthly Archives: February 2011

Looking Out My Window

Posted on February 25, 2011 by nathanalbright

[The following essay examines, in sometimes grim detail, the biblical phenomenon of “looking out of the window” and what it means in the stories of Sisera, Michal, and Jezebel.  Some aspects of this examination are unpleasant.  You have been warned.] … Continue reading →

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In The Wilderness

Posted on February 25, 2011 by nathanalbright

This past Saturday night, while at a speaker’s club meeting, a fellow I have known for a long while (though not very deeply) commented on how he had spent 17 of the 34 years in the church we have both … Continue reading →

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The End of an Era

Posted on February 25, 2011 by nathanalbright

This afternoon, despite some foam problems, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on its final scheduled flight.  The flight had been long delayed due to cracks in the foam and support rods that had taken months to fix for NASA engineers.  … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Headlines In History: The 1800’s

Posted on February 24, 2011 by nathanalbright

Headlines In History:  The 1800’s, by James Miller, Bonnie Szumski, and Scott Barbour (editors) Fortunately, this book , the penultimate volume in its series, is on a par with the excellence of the volume on the 1600’s [1] and other … Continue reading →

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The People of Wal-Mart

Posted on February 24, 2011 by nathanalbright

As a sharp-eyed and dryly humorous spectator of human behavior, going out to shop is always full of humorous anecdotes.  Today, as I shopped in a somewhat “under construction” Wal-Mart with a largely Latino clientele and employee base, I got … Continue reading →

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No Variation Or Shadow Of Turning: Calculus In The Bible

Posted on February 24, 2011 by nathanalbright

Edit:  02/24/2011, to make a point about path integrals more plain. Even though Calculus was not “discovered” until the late 17th century by Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried von Leibniz, there is one verse in the Bible that makes a … Continue reading →

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You Shall Not Revile God Nor Curse A Ruler of Your People: The Continuing Relevance of Exodus 22:28

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

Though respect for authority has not always or often come easily to me, it is clearly something that the Bible consistently commands, and therefore I struggle to obey it even though it comes with extreme difficulty.  Respect for authority in … Continue reading →

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The Termites of History

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

One of the more odd and intriguing elements of history is when the same kind of events simultaneously occur in many places.  For example, in 1848, the “year of Revolutions,” there was an Irish potato famine that caused hundreds of … Continue reading →

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I’d Rather Be A Ninja Than A Pirate

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

The death of four Americans thanks to Somali pirates has made the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean a more recognizable problem than it was before for many Americans, though it is an issue discussed numerous times here [1] … Continue reading →

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On The Formation of Class Identity

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

As the name of this blog is Edge Induced Cohesion and the formation of identity through crisis and conflict is an obvious subject of interest to this blog [1] [2] [3].  Today I would like to talk about the very … Continue reading →

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