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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 3

Posted on January 25, 2018 by ehurst

Our hand-n-arm model in the previous lesson oversimplifies things, of course. If you went out to the subduction zone off the southern shores of Alaska, and took a submarine down into the ocean to look at it, you wouldn’t see … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 2

Posted on January 24, 2018 by ehurst

The Tectonic Plate Theory is a good working model. It doesn’t account for everything, but it will get us where we need to go with understanding the Bad Friday Earthquake of 1964 and earthquakes in general. Most major earthquakes are … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 1

Posted on January 23, 2018 by ehurst

Just as an exercise, I wanted to share some of my education in the mechanics of earthquakes. I’ve never seen it offered anywhere else this way, particularly in public education. It seems it always has big gaps in it, so … Continue reading →

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Passion Prayer

Posted on June 18, 2017 by ehurst

First, an addition to your virtual library: I would like to recommend for you a source site I’ve used often — A Christian Thinktank. The author, Glenn Miller, is a computer guy like me, and also has a good education … Continue reading →

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Another Lesson in Prophecy

Posted on June 9, 2017 by ehurst

It seems a good time to offer another lesson in prophetic ministry. Here the main point is time, in that our fallen nature handles it very poorly. One major element in the Curse of the Fall is a high sensitivity … Continue reading →

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Our Parish Teaching on Politics

Posted on January 25, 2017 by ehurst

To the degree that we could change anything in this world, it has to come as a secondary result of our normal mission activity. This is particularly true with politics and government policy. Let’s review the background for this. The … Continue reading →

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Bibliography

Posted on June 28, 2016 by ehurst

Aside from the lightweight references I used in my A Course in Biblical Mysticism, some of you may take an interest in looking more at some of my studies on the background of the Bible. Old Testament Survey: The Message, … Continue reading →

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Logical Odds and Ends

Posted on May 7, 2016 by ehurst

A couple of recent comments and some offline conversation seem to call for a fresh attempt to explain a couple of items. Ancient Near East (ANE) — We are not ANE. We harken back to that collection of civilizations because … Continue reading →

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My Head Was Filled with Crap

Posted on March 5, 2016 by ehurst

Colleges can be cheap in the sense that they often take shortcuts so that the administration can waste funding on self-aggrandizing schemes nobody else knows or cares about. One of the ways they cut corners is to put graduate students … Continue reading →

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Archives: A Teacher’s Sorrow

Posted on March 4, 2016 by ehurst

How do I say “I love you” without coming on too strong? How do I touch you reassuringly, without it seeming wrong? I’d love to hug you; my motive is pure. To give you a friendship strong and sure. Not … Continue reading →

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