Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Apr 07 2004
Reporting Religious News That Shocks: Cause Or Effect?
The story of the murder suspect who took a Biblical passage in a very literal sense made me cringe. Of course, we don't see very many news reports of people who live everyday lives using Biblical passages just fine, without murdering people and mutilating themselves. I'd like to think the fact that these are exceptions is what makes them news, and that the rest of the folks who espouse Christianity do so with dignity and caring, even though they never make it to the front page, or the oddity page.
posted at: 10:32 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
The story of the murder suspect who took a Biblical passage in a very literal sense made me cringe. Of course, we don't see very many news reports of people who live everyday lives using Biblical passages just fine, without murdering people and mutilating themselves. I'd like to think the fact that these are exceptions is what makes them news, and that the rest of the folks who espouse Christianity do so with dignity and caring, even though they never make it to the front page, or the oddity page.
posted at: 10:32 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
Eudora's Vanishing Act
My Eudora email program went insane yesterday. I often have several instances of Internet Explorer running while I'm doing searches, and one of them declared an error and when I gave it the yes to send its report to Microsoft, not only did the browser window close, but Eudora vanished along with it. I tried to restart Eudora, and it attempted to rebuild its table of contents, but vanished again. I finally had to update to Eudora 6.1, which will hopefully be more stable. In any case, my attention to blog entries was overshadowed by my attempts to get the whole thing going again. It's amazing how much time we all spend on maintaining our email now, when we hardly thought of such things not very many years ago. I suppose the same could also be said of blogging.
posted at: 08:11 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
My Eudora email program went insane yesterday. I often have several instances of Internet Explorer running while I'm doing searches, and one of them declared an error and when I gave it the yes to send its report to Microsoft, not only did the browser window close, but Eudora vanished along with it. I tried to restart Eudora, and it attempted to rebuild its table of contents, but vanished again. I finally had to update to Eudora 6.1, which will hopefully be more stable. In any case, my attention to blog entries was overshadowed by my attempts to get the whole thing going again. It's amazing how much time we all spend on maintaining our email now, when we hardly thought of such things not very many years ago. I suppose the same could also be said of blogging.
posted at: 08:11 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
