AnthonyFosterPhD

With all the brewhaha on Capital Hill and in the blogosphere over the so called Bible Bill, I thought I'd reminisce- Ronald Reagan declared 1983 the Year of the Bible with full Congressional support. So in my estimation, that may be another indicator of the decline of Christianity in the USA. News Headlines from 1983 Record $189 Billion Deficit Is Projected House Votes 228 TO 195 To Bar Covert "Contra" Aid Korean Air Lines 007 Is Shot Down by Soviet Missile, 279 killed US and Caribbean Troops Invade Grenada Legendary Coach Bear Bryant Is Gone Borg Quits At Apex Of His Career Polygamy: Arizona Man had 105 Wives Reagan Proposes Star Wars Plan All OPEC Members Agree To Cut Oil Prices Terrorists Bomb US Embassy In Beirut, Over 239 Marines and Sailors Die Dow exceeds 1200 for the first time Died, Buster Crab, Jack Dempsey, Arthur Godfrey Dustin Hoffman stars in "Tootsie" Supreme Court reaffirms it's 1973 (Roe Vs Wade) Right to abortion Barny Clark ...

Nascent as in just starting to be formed. It’s a bit ironic, I think that Ayn Rand’s first job in Hollywood was as an extra on the set of deMille’s King of Kings. From a start in a movie about the ultimate sacrifice, Rand became the ultimate individualist, pursuing a philosophy of the ego called objectivism. In it she posits that sacrifice is evil(oops- that's a misnomer here- she probably didn't use that category) as it constitutes the substitution of a lesser value for a greater one. This goes to a point that what one places value in is the basis of life. Her’s is a view that sees all altruism as wrong. From a Christian worldview, she has all the pricetags wrong. Sin is ultimately related to an individual’s degradation of the ultimate worth of the Ultimate Being. So that (along with most of the world) is her basic flaw. This is a sterling example of upside down thinking- what happens when the correct absolute is denied- suddenly everything you know is wrong- a logical conclus...

Apple is paying a bit more attention to what apps it OK's these days...but I think they missed the boat that has departed....

Twenty-five years after the philosopher-evangelist's death, Os Guinness recalls a great man's influence. Take a look at the comments on the site as well, they are instructive. FYI, I agree with Os.

Sparrow Once I was a wanderer on the wistful, wailing wind. The wind still blows but I know the song it sings Now I go with knowledge of the places it can send I am but a sparrow but I ride on eagles’ wings. This sparrow it has found its house, a nest that never falters In a tree that knows no bending, here I sing Where this sparrow surely lays its young, here upon your altars, O LORD of hosts, my God and righteous King I watch alone as upon the house top I now stand. I cannot buy nor spend, I do not sow or reap the land, Nor gather into barns from which to make my offerings Fed by the Fathers all sufficient hand I am but a sparrow but I ride on eagles’ wings. A grateful soul set flying- as out of the fowlers snare: The trap is broken, and we are set free We are escaped to fly our flight above where eagles dare To take our rest in heaven’s most blessed tree. And in the living and the moving My true Being God is proving. In the feeding on the surety of the feast trusting brings I...

And somehow His intentionality in making Jesus the center of all things/thinks quenches the thirsty soul in the process. You can belly up to the bar at Warp and Woof ...

Check out Andrew Case on Jango . I love his clear melodious voice and his soundly theocentric words...