A Saint By Any Other Name By Wendy Wippel The account of Daniel and his three friends-- captured and taken to Babylon as slaves is a great example of faith and a testimony to perseverance in the face of difficulty. It is also an account that is inarguably historically true.…
The Late, Great Book of the Revelation By Wendy Wippel From where I sit (and I sincerely hope I'm wrong. But I don't think so) the church as a whole seems to have kicked the prophetic Scriptures to the curb lately (despite the fact at least a third of the…
Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On By Wendy Wippel In the old days (i.e, 1980s) the prevailing view was that our universe was made up of particles, like protons and electrons. Particle physics, however, has since been replaced by String Theory, in which the universe is comprised of one-dimensional strings.…
Kvetch Like an Egyptian By Wendy Wippel You may have missed it (as I did) but apparently the things that keeps Biblical scholars up at night has lately been this: were the ancient Egyptians black or white? Dunno why this was such a academic obsession, but now we have an…
Hate, Home Grown By Wendy Wippel I am assuming that pretty much all of you reading this spent last evening doing the exact same thing I did. That being, watching the news, weeping for the scores of dead country music fans, and wondering what the heck would have motivated this…
Through the Desert on a Force with No Name By Wendy Wippel The word “desert" used in an geographical context means, “a region largely devoid of rain and therefore also largely devoid of vegetation, or life”. According to astrophysicists, however (Who knew!), there is also a desert in space. A…
Fighting with Physics By Wendy Wippel Lost in the hurricane hysteria that has (appropriately) captured our collective attention since the middle of August was another story that ultimately could have much bigger repercussions. Namely, sonic weaponry, used against American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba. It’s considered the future of warfare,…
One More Bubble Burst… By Wendy Wippel Ever wonder why our physicists seem so anxious to find evidence of other life? Always searching the cosmos for other earth-like hospitable planets? Ostensibly it’s because, with global warming, we’re all looking at needing to make a move sometime soon. Really it’s because…
Soul Trains By Wendy Wippel A certain wit, when asked by an old acquaintance how his children were doing, answered like this: "We’ve had a bit of bad luck with our children. They’ve grown up. Which would be really funny if I wasn’t currently living through it". I have two…
A Multiplicity of Errors By Wendy Wippel If you’ve been to a theater over the last ten years you’ve no doubt been introduced to the concept of multiple (parallel) universes, all the rage in science fiction since first proposed by Erwin Schrodinger while I was still in diapers. They’ve been…