Story Time: Omphalos
It’s story time today, something I plan to have every week or two: that is, a day when I post a piece of my fiction on some skeptical, atheistic or biblical theme. A few of these, like today’s, will...
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Today’s offering is my take on the iconic Just-So story of the building of the Tower of Babel. And, okay, I changed the ending a bit. In the Biblical original, the tower actually did get built,...
View ArticleStory Time: The Ethical Servant
(Matthew 25:14-30) One day our Master went on a mission to a far country, leaving a sum of money with each of us to handle as we saw fit. He gave five talents to Adnam, two to Bishan, and one...
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1962: Planning for the End of the World
This weekend sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two weeks in 1962 when the world teetered uncomfortably on the edge of a secular Armageddon. Some of us,...
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Story Time: Tea Leaves
In honour of Hallowe’en, here is an updated version of the first story I ever sold – way back in 1987, to the Pan Book of Horror Stories. TEA LEAVES I watched Edna covertly as she folded, spindled...
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Story Time: Dagon
Note: I remember the exact date when I started this story:September 10, 2001. I didn’t work on it the next day, however. The next day, along with most other humans on the planet with access to...
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A Dominican Death: Giordano Bruno, 17 February 1600
“Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.” He said that last week. Now he shivers in the corner of his cell, wondering whether, for...
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Martha
Her courtyard was packed with footsore, road-dusty, crow-hungry seekers after the truth, plus the Truth Himself, needily incarnate, and somewhere between forty and fifty of them would be staying for...
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THE LAST BREAKFAST (Matthew 10:35-37)
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a round of bread, the very food he was now poking at, but not actually eating. Hava frowned at the neglected...
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Bethesda
“Bethesda” connotes a place of healing and mercy – but I could never see the logic of it, myself. In the Gospel of John, verse 5, the eponymous Pool of Bethesda was a place where miracles were...
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1962: Planning for the End of the World
This weekend sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two weeks in 1962 when the world teetered uncomfortably on the edge of a secular Armageddon. Some of us,...
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Story Time: Tea Leaves
In honour of Hallowe’en, here is an updated version of the first story I ever sold – way back in 1987, to the Pan Book of Horror Stories. TEA LEAVES I watched Edna covertly as she folded, spindled...
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Story Time: Dagon
Note: I remember the exact date when I started this story:September 10, 2001. I didn’t work on it the next day, however. The next day, along with most other humans on the planet with access to...
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A Dominican Death: Giordano Bruno, 17 February 1600
“Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.” He said that last week. Now he shivers in the corner of his cell, wondering whether, for...
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Martha
Her courtyard was packed with footsore, road-dusty, crow-hungry seekers after the truth, plus the Truth Himself, needily incarnate, and somewhere between forty and fifty of them would be staying for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE LAST BREAKFAST (Matthew 10:35-37)
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a round of bread, the very food he was now poking at, but not actually eating. Hava frowned at the neglected...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bethesda
“Bethesda” connotes a place of healing and mercy – but I could never see the logic of it, myself. In the Gospel of John, verse 5, the eponymous Pool of Bethesda was a place where miracles were...
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