Archive for April, 2009

POLITICS: license to practice vindictiveness by Jean Snow VanOrden

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I’ve avoided political commentary in my posts lately.  I’m trying to watch the unfolding of the administration with a more balanced, less partisan perspective. I’m trying to be less shrill in my opinions and more even tempered in my analysis. I’m deeply weary of the last eight years of Bush bashing and the psychosis of [...]

PROOF: what is the worth of a soul? by Jean Snow VanOrden

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Assuming, now a belief in the existence of a powerful and eternal creator – a parent God who cares about His children’s lives and happiness in mortality and on into eternity, the next question is – so what?  Why should we care.  Human beings survive, they feed, clothe, house and reproduce whether they believe in [...]

Basic number two: desire to believe by Jean Snow VanOrden

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Where to start?  Which came first the chicken or the egg, the acorn or the oak? The choice or the consequence?   A particle or a wave?
Basic number two: When faced with doubt choose belief.
Don’t get into all the what ifs and whys. Don’t make it into a federal case. Don’t write a doctoral dissertation on [...]