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Brian H. Gill
I'm a sixty-something married guy with four kids in a small central Minnesota town. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run a business and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters.
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Tag Archives: faith
Death, Funerals — and Life
We celebrated my father-in-law’s funeral a week after his death. I’d planned on writing about that, and probably will. But not today. I ended up talking about funerals in general, Psalms and science — it’s about as linear as most … Continue reading
Posted in being Catholic, discursive detours
Tagged death, faith, Final Judgment, Last Judgment, last things
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This Week’s Scandals
Friday’s news included claims that a UN environmental protection boss and an Indian bishop have been acting badly. Maybe someone has decided that environmental protection is a fraud after they read those articles. Or at least stopped supporting outfits that … Continue reading
Posted in being Catholic, discursive detours
Tagged America, bias, faith, getting a grip, Jesus, truth
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Divine Mercy and Lawrence N. Kaas
We set a time for my father-in-law’s funeral: 3:00 p.m. this Friday, September 21, 2018. The last I heard, all but one of his children have been told about his death. The one remaining has been, I understand, somewhere in … Continue reading
Posted in being Catholic, discursive detours
Tagged Divine Mercy, faith, faith and works, Jesus, love, mercy, original sin, salvation, sin
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Found: a ‘Baby Planet’
Pictures of PDS 70b show a planet that’s still forming. It’s the youngest planet scientists have imaged so far. They figure studying it will help them learn more about how planetary systems develop. I think they’re right. Attitudes and assumptions … Continue reading
Posted in discursive detours, science news
Tagged astronomy, Bible, exobiology, exoplanets, faith, planets, science, technology
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