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Unity and Diversity
I sat out on the back patio yesterday evening, preparing to barbecue supper. I had my Merlin app tracking the birds. It captured calls from 21 different species. That’s a lot of diversity for a small yard. God likes diversity; it displays his creative power and love of beauty. The other evening, the sky was blue, grey, black, pink, yellow, purple, and more, depending on where...
Good Friday?
Tomorrow is Good Friday. The day we commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus and His death. It seems such a strange name for a remembrance of the day when humanity’s ultimate sin occurred. Yet it might not be as strange as you think. There are several possible reasons for the name. The most plausible comes from Old English, where “good” often meant holy or pious. That...
Chickadee
The black-capped chickadee is an amazing little bird. They are cute, friendly, and have a sweet song, but they also have some amazing characteristics you might not know about. Each year, the chickadee’s hippocampus sheds memories of the previous year and develops new patterns to remember the location of every seed it stashed away. It is estimated that they can remember 100,000 seeds. Scientists are studying this...
