Jon
Kennedy’s online ‘Jonal’ articles 2001-2008 These
articles are columns, opinion pieces, travelogues, and observations about general
or universal human issues. Some refer to local institutions and the landscape
of the writer's boyhood home around Nanty
Glo, Pa. The articles that make up a series are numbered at the right below,
so the beginning can easily be found. The numbers in the navigation frame at left
are in sequential order from the latest to first order. Click any of them to display
the numbered article in this frame. |
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19
‘Jonal’
articles - 2008 |
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| | 11/12/2008 |
Earning the right to speak |
| | 11/05/2008 |
Mere Christianity: Life's dual purposes |
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| | 10/31/2008 |
Legislating morality |
| | 10/30/2008 |
Media bias and democracy |
| | 10/23/2008 |
Election issues |
| | 10/08/2008 |
Camera considerations |
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| | 9/25/2008 |
Memories from deep childhood |
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| 9/18/2008 |
The biggest changes in Nanty Glo since last year |
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| 9/03/2008 |
Hayride at Vintondale Homecoming |
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| | 8/30/2008 |
Home again, home again, jiggety jig |
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| 8/22/2008 |
County-wide high-speed Internet comes to Cambria |
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| 8/21/2008 |
The first day of my retirement |
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| 8/20/2008 |
Not working for 'the man' |
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| 8/13/2008 |
The top four, ever |
| | 8/06/2008 |
Trash talk and the company we keep |
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| | 7/30/2008 |
Sign of the times / 'Judging' revisited |
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| 7/23/2008 |
Little boycotts |
| | 7/16/2008 |
Media mischief |
| | 7/09/2008 |
Sticking a tentative toe in the water |
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Lewis Overflow’ articles - 2007-8 | | |
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60
‘Jonal’
articles - 2006 |
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| | 7/03/2006 |
Loose ends The
1000th and final Jonal |
|
| 6/30/2006 |
Conservativism and extremism Two
liberals help get a handle |
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| 6/28/2006 |
Keep busy Another weapon in the warfare for taking
the kingdom of heaven |
| | 6/26/2006 |
Saints alive It's more than 'only believe' |
| | 6/23/2006 |
Judging How my mind changed |
| | 6/21/2006 |
Christifying our minds Christian worldview II |
| | 6/19/2006 |
A Christian worldview Yet another take |
| | 6/16/2006 |
Practicing what I preach What I should have said |
| | 6/12/2006 |
The rules of engagement Pointers for civil discourse |
| | 6/09/2006 |
'It's only a movie' No. No, it isn't |
| | 6/07/2006 |
Sacralization The opposite of sexualization |
| | 6/05/2006 |
Rights and responsibilities The brief history of
rights |
| | 6/02/2006 |
Venice tourist treatment The quintessence of "the
Southern California myth" |
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| | 5/31/2006 |
Venice revisited A gallery of Venice, California
scenes |
| | 5/29/2006 |
System recovery Fighting the CWS trojan attacks |
| | 5/19/2006 |
Character studies Third in series |
| | 5/17/2006 |
Word study: Simplicity
More wisdom from Elder Maximos, II |
| | 5/15/2006 |
Word study: Cunningness More wisdom from Elder Maximos |
| | 5/12/2006 |
Friday fluff Could the Mexican immigration 'problem'
be a solution? |
| | 5/10/2006 |
In praise of protest Bob Lonsberry isn't always wrong |
| | 5/08/2006 |
News flash: Most religions have common roots
Why most journalists shouldn't tackle religion |
| | 5/05/2006 |
Questions about Opus Dei |
| | 5/03/2006 |
Word study: Christian vocations Opus Dei is not alone |
| | 5/01/2006 |
Word study: Opus Dei Secular work and holiness |
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| | 4/28/2006 |
Stanford memoir II 1972 - 1981 |
| | 4/26/2006 |
Stanford memories My lost years |
| | 4/24/2006 |
Bright Monday Some tour photos from Stanford University |
| | 4/21/2006 |
Doubt and logic The tension between doubt and belief. |
| | 4/19/2006 |
Certitude and doubt No doubt! |
| | 4/17/2006 |
Blessed hope Newsday's culture-of-death Easter homily |
| | 4/14/2006 |
The war on Easter and the Gospel of Judas flap |
| | 4/12/2006 |
The burden of evidence Proving that Jesus of Nazareth
lived |
| | 4/10/2006 |
An almost unsolicited plug The "why" and
"what" of Xnmp |
| | 4/07/2006 |
Ahead of the game? Lessons learned from publishing
experiences |
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| | 3/22/2006 |
Another full plate, and loose ends on Monday's Jonal Another
leave taking. |
| | 3/20/2006 |
What (who) is a Christian? If not C. S. Lewis, who? |
| | 3/17/2006 |
Happy St. Patrick's Day photos and facts about the
Apostle to Ireland |
| | 3/15/2006 |
Self-analyzing homesickness part 3 in series on sehnsucht |
| | 3/13/2006 |
Longing for God (sehnsucht, part 2) |
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| 3/10/2006 |
Sehnsucht Longing for a place or time |
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| 3/06/2006 |
Round three More vicissitudes of book publishing; comments on the Oscars |
| | 3/03/2006 |
Notes for possible further consideration |
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| 3/01/2006 |
Word studies: religion and leaps of faith - A failure to communicate |
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| | 2/27/2006 |
Another vacation photo—a closely cropped look at the Nanty Glo Gazebo |
| | 2/24/2006 |
The parable of the talents |
| | 2/22/2006 |
Frugality and stewardship Take two |
| | 2/20/2006 |
Word studies: frugality and stewardship |
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| 2/17/2006 |
Mid-winter reading
Miscellaneous excerpts |
| | 2/15/2006 |
A prisoner of my past A little of this and that. |
| | 2/13/2006 |
Two poles of opinjion on the cartoon controversy |
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| 2/10/2006 |
A magnificent (?) obsession Is there too much emphasis on sex? |
| | 2/08/2006 |
Ineffability Maybe that's what he meant instead of 'irrationality'? |
| | 2/06/2006 |
A mystery from Twin Rocks, circa 1955 A famous quartet plays the Big Bend
School Auditorium |
| | 2/03/2006 |
Righteous outrage and outrageous behavior We're all comedians. |
| | 2/01/2006 |
The irrationality of believing |
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| | 1/30/2006 |
Word studies Heresy, apostasy |
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| 1/27/2006 |
Lesson learned More thoughts on Anne Rice novel; great tribulation |
| | 1/25/2006 |
Gnosticism The ancient occult 'knowledge' religion |
| | 1/23/2006 |
Anne Rice's Jesus Thoughts about Anne Rice's novel and the gnostic gospels |
| | 1/20/2006 |
Nice to be Back On being back online, and thoughts about Anne Rice's Jesus
novel |
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‘Jonal’
articles - 2005 |
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| | 12/02/2005 |
Finally We're back after our Internet service was disrupted on November
9 |
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| | 11/09/2005 |
A new perspective on a familiar sight Johnstown's Incline Plane |
| | 11/07/2005 |
Reduced load An exciting development; Pride of the Valley |
| | 11/04/2005 |
Parallel universes The American left and right hardly know each other any
more |
| | 11/02/2005 |
Where the rubber meets the road Relativism vs. absolute truths |
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| | 10/31/2005 |
The true meaning of healing |
| | 10/28/2005 |
Jet-lagging Fighting vacation post-partum or...? |
| | 10/26/2005 |
Halloween Should Christians oppose it? |
|
| 10/24/2005 |
Truth in labeling People for "the" American Way? |
| | 10/21/2005 |
Friday pocket pickin's The webcam dream is fading fast |
| | 10/17/2005 |
A good time was had by all The webmaster 'roasted' in Nanty Glo |
| | 10/14/2005 |
Report from the Home Page front |
| | 10/12/2005 |
Goin' fishing Plans for trip to Home Page Country |
| | 10/10/2005 |
Security of the believer Calvinist, and Orthodox, theological views |
| | 10/7/2005 |
Allegheny rambler A collection of pocket lint |
| | 10/5/2005 |
Bad theology Religious exclusivity |
|
| 10/3/2005 |
Bad science The good type of science has no need for totalitarian tactics |
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| | 9/30/2005 |
A pocketful of peeves Friday roundup |
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| 9/28/2005 |
What doesn't make something 'Christian'? Fruit of the spirit. |
| | 9/26/2005 |
What makes something 'Christian'? Is the United States a 'Christian nation'? |
| | 9/23/2005 |
Potpourri A second pocketful of notes |
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| 9/21/2005 |
'Mere Christianity' and anabaptism Universal faith and some departures |
| | 9/19/2005 |
Eighth anniversary reflections It hasn't been our best year |
| | 9/16/2005 |
No straw after Labor Day A pocketful of notes on several items |
| | 9/14/2005 |
Christian worldview redux Getting acquainted with God changes everything
else |
| | 9/12/2005 |
A 'conservative' teen columnist calls for separating religion and disaster-relief
politics |
| | 9/09/2005 |
God,
gays, Gaza, gambling, or George W.? Who's to blame, 2 |
| | 9/07/2005 |
Who's
to blame? Katrina: God, the President, gay casinos? |
| | 9/05/2005 |
Actually,
it's the Left that's promoting an establishment
of religion |
| | 9/02/2005 |
Living
past 30 More thoughts on Peter Pan syndrome |
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| | 8/312005 |
Playing
the fool Another look at the Sermon on the Mount |
| | 8/29/2005 |
Trivial
pursuits The life centered on 'things' and acquisitions |
| | 8/26/2005 |
Pat
Robertson's carelessness Loose lips sink Christians' approval ratings |
| | 8/24/2005 |
Making
heaven wait? —take two |
| | 8/22/2005 |
Making
heaven wait? Why struggle to keep such a miserable life going when heaven's
so great? |
| | 8/19/2005 |
The
Nohaides and today's news Christian right and Jewish right mutuality |
| | 8/17/2005 |
The
seven Nohaides A way of salvation within Judaism for non-Jews |
| | 8/15/2005 |
Partial-birth
abortion When do news media become accessories to murder? |
| | 8/12/2005 |
Word
studies: multiculturalism vs. pluralism Wringing somenew changes |
| | 8/10/2005 |
Only
two options are viable Leftist/secularism vs. Judeo-Christianity |
| | 8/08/2005 |
Word
studies: Thinking globally vs. one-worldism |
|
| 8/05/2005 |
Think
globally Loving your neighbor nations |
|
| 8/03/2005 |
Word
studies: scandal and secrecy Confession and communion |
| | 8/01/2005 |
Headlines
worth reading and pausing to reflect upon |
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| | 7/29/2005 |
Allusiveness
(or, it's about the writing) |
| | 7/27/2005 |
The
nonvirtue of selfishness What Monday's Jonal was not about |
| | 7/25/2005 |
But
I was much older then How the eternal youth phenomenon is warping culture |
| | 7/22/2005 |
Lite
notes |
| | 7/20/2005 |
More
music |
| | 7/18/2005 |
Revisiting
the 'second tier' Another look at pop music |
|
| 7/15/2005 |
Religion
is life |
| | 7/13/2005 |
Defining
"religion" |
| | 7/11/2005 |
It
is as it was—Longing for the monastery 2 |
|
| 7/08/2005 |
Longing
for the monastery Not to be a monk, but... |
|
| 7/06/2005 |
More
word studies Evangel -ical -ist -ism |
|
| 7/04/2005 |
Word
studies What do words like 'intelligent design' really mean? |
| | 7/01/2005 |
Death
as a way of life Wisdom from...Steve Jobs? |
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| | 6/29/2005 |
Gay
liberation and feminism |
| | 6/27/2005 |
Feminism
and the sexualizing of American culture |
|
| 6/24/2005 |
More
discussion of social changes since the 1960s |
|
| 6/22/2005 |
On
with the discussion of social changes since the 1960s |
| | 6/20/2005 |
Continuing
the discussion of social changes since the 1960s |
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| 6/17/2005 |
Thinking
theoretically about social upheaval and progress |
|
| 6/15/2005 |
Looking
closer at changes to 'society' since 1960 New look introduced! |
| | 6/13/2005 |
Better,
or worse, 'society' since 1960? Few responses to survey question to list |
| | 6/10/2005 |
Are
things better, or worse, since 1960? Cup half full or half empty? |
| | 6/08/2005 |
Godly
rulers From the Old Testament to William Gladstone |
|
| 6/06/2005 |
Ford
boycott suspended | Cromwell Thoughts about a 'Christian' political leader |
| | 6/03/2005 |
My
boycott of Ford Ford Motor Company has gone over to the dark side |
| | 6/01/2005 |
Life's
joyful-sad moments Brandi's eighth-grade graduation |
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| | 5/31/2005 |
View
from (and of) a rock A visit to Alcatraz |
|
| 5/30/2005 |
Dirty
work but someone has to do it A company trip to Yosemite National Park |
| | 5/27/2005 |
The
'truths' in Marc Alexander's letter Christian "dominionism," 3 |
| | 5/25/2005 |
Challenging
untruths in Marc Alexander's letter Christian "dominionism," 2 |
| | 5/24/2005 |
A
confession of atheirstic faith Christian "dominionism" |
| | 5/20/2005 |
Creativity
and liberalism |
| | 5/18/2005 |
Creating
our own worlds Renaissance versus traditionalism |
|
| 5/16/2005 |
The
unfunny side of sex Why dirty jokes and words are unholy |
| | 5/13/2005 |
Is
sex funny? A surprising confirmation in C.S. Lewis |
|
| 5/11/2005 |
A
letter to a teen columnist Helpful words to the wise, or something |
| | 5/09/2005 |
What's
left? Why the "Christian left" is wrong. |
|
| 5/06/2005 |
Where
were we? Why are some "religious" countries inclined to socialism? |
| | Nanty
Glo.com server was down for most of week |
|
| 4/29/2005 |
Welfarism
leads to totalitarianism Why the 'Christian left' misses the point |
| | 4/27/2005 |
'Liberal'
evangelicals Why media and Democrat strategists are looking to recruit. |
| | 4/25/2005 |
Later
spring views Photos of spring flowers sent by David and Patty Caldwell |
| | 4/22/2005 |
Being
discovered 3 -validation Working and waiting |
|
| 4/20/2005 |
Being
discovered 2 -recognition Being recognized brings motivation |
| | 4/19/2005 |
Being
discovered Still waiting for that big break |
|
| 4/15/2005 |
Twice
born A look at what some consider a magic formula to get you into heaven |
| | 4/13/2005 |
I write, ergo I am |
|
| 4/11/2005 |
Another
reason I became a writer |
|
| 4/08/2005 |
More
thoughts about why I'm a writer |
|
| 4/06/2005 |
Why
I'm a writer If we had the verbal acuity of Robin Williams, we wouldn't bother.... |
| | 4/04/2005 |
A
sweet fragrance Reflections on the passing of Terri Shiavo and Pope John Paul
II |
| | 4/01/2005 |
Liberals,
here? Who will take the challenge to balance the forum? |
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| | 3/30/2005 |
Jewish
renaissance? Religious Judaism seems to be making a comeback |
| | 3/28/2005 |
Some
of my best friends Perhaps the best article on 'gay marriage' is introduced
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| | 3/25/2005 |
Annunciations
Changing the subject to the Terri Shiavo case |
|
| 3/23/2005 |
Hollywood's
good news...? R-rating movies are down, PG and PG-13 up |
| | 3/21/2005 |
Brushes
with technology - 4 The Linotype as rudimentary computer. |
| | 3/18/2005 |
Brushes
with technology - 3 |
|
| 3/16/2005 |
My
early brushes with technology - 2 The old way newspapers were printed |
| | 3/14/2005 |
Brushes
with technology History: Linotype comes to Nanty Glo |
| | 3/11/2005 |
Make
up your mind Thinking theoretically means rebuilding your mind |
| | 3/09/2005 |
Finding
the right Back to theoretical thought |
|
| 3/07/2005 |
Hunger
for orthodoxy Not capital-O Orthodoxy but the quest for truth or right |
| | 3/04/2005 |
Behavior
modeling Who are the children God wants us to protect? |
| | 3/02/2005 |
Millstones
How the protective cocoon for children has unraveled |
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| | 2/28/2005 |
A
liberal bastian gets—or rediscovers—religion A surprising NY Times
article |
| | 2/25/2005 |
How
Far Back? part two |
|
| 2/23/2005 |
How
Far Back? If the Conservatives offer the Middle Ages, what do the Liberals
offer? |
| | 2/22/2005 |
Theocracy |
| | 2/21/2005 |
Consistent
life theology; gun ownership and use Taking issue with Fr. John Breck's takes
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| | 2/18/2005 |
Rambling
Wreck from Red Mill Road
Thoughts mostly on music |
|
| 2/16/2005 |
A
woman's perspective on sexualizing |
|
| 2/14/2005 |
'Feedback'
on sexualizing series |
|
| 2/11/2005 |
Nanty
Glo was rock and roll Some
things were different in the day |
|
| 2/9/2005 |
Sexualizing
culture - 3: college campuses The
campus seen as sexual carnival |
|
| 2/7/2005 |
Sexualizing
culture - 2: teens How television's eroded standards sexualize our kids |
| | 2/4/2005 |
Sexualizing
culture - 1 Sexuality in the Belsano first grade |
|
| 2/2/2005 |
More
thoughts on Interference On not sexualizing children. |
| | 2/1/2005 |
Blowing
my horn; a press release Introducing this index; PR from Stephen Bennett |
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| | 1/31/2005 |
A
religion of peace? Answer to question about Islam |
|
| 1/28/2005 |
When
common sense isn't Conclusion of the series on evangelical history |
| | 1/26/2005 |
Common
sense then and now A failure of theoretical thought in popular religion |
| | 1/24/2005 |
Some
personal correlations My agnostic "Protestant" forebears |
| | 1/21/2005 |
Self-evident
truths The mindset of the Revolutionary War and revival era |
| | 1/19/2005 | Our
original reality show How common sense realism molds America |
| | 1/17/2005 | Common
and uncommon sense Common sense realism; Christianity and culture |
| | 1/14/2005 | A
giant awakes...and makes a break Hybrid Christianity |
| | 1/12/2005 | Awakenings
America's First Great Awakening |
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