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2001 - 286 ‘Jonal’ articles
1 1/21/2001 A new start for the "Jonal" (first of the "new-page-every-day" Jonals)
2 1/22/2001 A discussion topic suggestion
3 1/23/2001 Putting up or shutting up
4 1/24/2001 Continuing our discussion of "wealth from poverty"
5 1/25/2001 Creative ways to supplement the parental "allowance"
6 1/26/2001 More creativity: Stamp collecting and 4-H
7 1/27/2001 A tangent: the funniest thing ever—poor pussy
8 1/28/2001 A memorable almost-visit to Indian Caverns
9 1/29/2001 Contributors to the area's local economy
10 1/30/2001 Pilgrims'progress
11 1/31/2001 Penelec's many contributions
12 2/1/2001 Wealth from poverty; poverty from wealth
13 2/2/2001 On the other hand...
14 2/3/2001 Writing under pressure
15 2/4/2001 On the old topic; new topic idea
16 2/5/2001 Cicero's memories
17 2/6/2001 Roller skating days, II
18 2/7/2001 The romance of roller skating
19 2/8/2001 Innocent intimacy
20 2/9/2001 Rockin' at Cicero's
21 2/10/2001 The Teen Ten
22 2/11/2001 Play the old songs
23 2/12/2001 What's your favorite song?
24 2/13/2001 What makes a favorite song?
25 2/14/2001 What makes a favorite song? Joyful sorrow
26 2/15/2001 All-time favorites
27 2/16/2001 My first-tier all-time favorites
28 2/17/2001 The second tier
29 2/18/2001 Matters of musical taste
30 2/19/2001 It's radio, Dadio
31 2/21/2001 Playing in the musical lovers' big-league
32 2/22/2001 Music soothes the savage beast
33 2/23/2001 Transcendent love
34 2/24/2001 The roots of "soul" music
35 2/25/2001 Musical memories of high school years
36 2/26/2001 Changes
37 2/27/2001 School days; teachers and mentors
38 2/28/2001 Our teachers
39 3/1/2001 High school teachers (third in a series on Valley schools)
40 3/2/2001 More teachers remembered (fourth in a series on our teachers)
41 3/3/2001 My teachers (fifth in a series on Valley teachers)
42 3/4/2001 Other teachers (sixth in a series on Valley teachers)
43 3/5/2001 Readers' teacher memories (seventh in the series on Blacklick Valley teachers)
44 3/6/2001 Mentors and other teachers
45 3/7/2001 Other mentors; Herman Sedloff (ninth in a series on Valley teachers)
46 3/8/2001 Johnstown College teachers (tenth in the series on teachers)
47 3/9/2001 Seminary teachers (eleventh in a series on teachers)
48 3/10/2001 Teachers, twelfth in a series
49 3/11/2001 Robert Kisrch (last in a series of 13 entries on teachers and mentors)
50 3/12/2001 Winter fun (first on a new topc) (guest writer Lisa Johns)
51 3/13/2001 Winter fun
52 3/14/2001 An interruption
53 3/15/2001 Interruption II: More changes
54 3/16/2001 Play
55 3/17/2001 Thoughts on play
56 3/18/2001 Play essentials
57 3/19/2001 Staged play
58 3/20/2001 Homemade toys
59 3/21/2001 Play, one more time
60 3/22/2001 Segue: play to work
61 3/23/2001 Job description hierarchy
62 3/24/2001 More career paths
63 3/25/2001 Work ethics
64 3/26/2001 A job worth doing...
65 3/27/2001 More work ethics
66 3/28/2001 Other jobs, other personnas
67 3/29/2001 Job regrets and second guesses
68 3/30/2001 The chicken coop and the worldwide web
69 3/31/2001 Back to music
70 4/1/2001 The key to hip hop, gansta rap
71 4/2/2001 Better than radio
72 4/3/2001 Downsides of "playing the computer"
73 4/4/2001 Triumph of rock and roll over "pop"...?
74 4/5/2001 Popular music's watershed decade
75 4/6/2001 Economics of pop music
76 4/7/2001 Catching up on the music of your life
77 4/8/2001 My play list
78 4/9/2001 More observations on my play list
79 4/10/2001 A tangent: putting music on web pages
80 4/11/2001 A confession and several discoveries
81 4/12/2001 Better late than...?
82 4/13/2001 A Good Friday tangent
83 4/14/2001 Antimusic?
84 4/15/2001 The Easter Gospel - Matthew 28
85 4/16/2001 "Our song"
86 4/17/2001 Pleasant discoveries
87 4/18/2001 Decadent music
88 4/19/2001 More decadence
89 4/20/2001 Music research
90 4/21/2001 Dark themes and decadence
91 4/22/2001 Yet another walk on music's dark side
92 4/23/2001 Well duh
93 4/24/2001 Real rock
94 4/25/2001 Interchangeable performers
95 4/26/2001 Musical notes
96 4/27/2001 The day the music died
97 4/28/2001 Writer's motto: When in doubt, quote
98 4/29/2001 Economic reality, timing, and music
99 4/30/2001 Finale of the music series
100 5/1/2001 A note from cyberspace
101 5/2/2001 Hurry up and wait
102 5/3/2001 A place to meet
103 5/4/2004 Reading habits
104 5/5/2001 The biggest conspiracy theory
105 5/6/2001 Conspiracies considered
106 5/7/2001 Memories of Mom
107 5/8/2001 Red and white carnations
108 5/9/2001 "Surrogate" moms
109 5/11/2001 A tribute to a Twin Rocks Mom (guest postcard by Verna (Rutledge) Chernisky)
110 5/12/2001 A Belsano Mom: Martha (Paul) Rummel (guest postcard by Trudy Myers)
111 5/14/2001 Procedural notes
112 5/15/2004 Procedures, continued
113 5/16/2001 Procedures, take 3
114 5/17/2001 "Hidden gospels"
115 5/18/2001 Prominent people
116 5/19/2001 Thanatopsis
117 5/21/2001 Old swimming holes
118 5/22/2001 Towhead's delight
119 5/23/2001 Porches
120 5/24/2001 Nanty Glo's cafe society
121 5/25/2001 Hanging
122 5/26/2001 A tourism-and-teeners modest proposal
123 5/27/2001 Memorial Day
124 5/28/2001 Memorial Days
125 5/29/2001 More daydreaming
126 5/30/2001 Youth center ideas (continued)
127 5/31/2001 Hostel ideas (continued)
128 6/1/2001 Funding ideas
129 6/2/2001 Local responses to youth center/hostel idea
130 6/4/2001 Heisley/Bethlehem Mine 31 history
131 6/5/2001 Visit to a small town
132 6/6/2001 Ado about nothing
133 6/7/2001 About not living in the past
134 6/8/2001 Friendlessness
135 6/9/2001 Writing secrets
136 6/11/2001 Writing voices
137 6/12/2001 More on writing voices
138 6/13/2001 Friendless
139 6/14/2001 Friends
140 6/15/2001 Gradations
141 6/16/2001 Disciples, 1
142 6/18/2001 Disciples, 2
143 6/19/2001 Adolescent friendships
144 6/20/2001 Reunion
145 6/21/2001 Homecoming
146 6/22/2001 Mere Christianity
147 6/23/2001 Neighborly
148 6/25/2001 Procedural update
149 6/26/2001 Higher education 1
150 6/27/2001 Higher education, 2
151 6/28/2001 Learning
152 6/29/2001 Independent studies
153 7/2/2001 On the road
154 7/3/2001 Late news from the Valley - 1
155 7/4/2001 Late news from the Valley - 2
156 7/5/2001 Late news from the Valley - 3
157 7/6/2001 Late news from the Valley - 4
158 7/7/2001 Home again
159 7/9/2001 More news from Cambria County
160 7/10/2001 Afterglow
161 7/11/2001 Controversialist 1
162 7/12/2001 Controversialist 2
163 7/13/2001 Controversialist 3
164 7/16/2001 Too late smart
165 7/17/2001 Competition
166 7/18/2001 Competing
167 7/19/2001 Thinking too much
168 7/20/2001 Crotchety
169 7/23/2001 The hanging thread
170 7/24/2001 Bank holiday
171 7/25/2001 Eclipse of human history?
172 7/26/2001 Radio Days
171 7/27/2001 The broadcasting age
172 7/30/2001 Radio days one more time
173 7/31/2001 Radio—and early TV—memories - letter from Frank Charney
174 8/1/2001 More radio and early TV memories
175 8/2/2001 Back to UK/Ireland
176 8/3/2001 Far away places
177 8/6/2001 Only one chance to go around
178 8/7/2001 Family travel
179 8/8/2001 Public interest in travel
180 8/9/2001 First "real" vacation
181 8/10/2001 Vacation procedures
182 8/13/2001 Greetings from London
183 8/14/2001 Vacation 2001 - First photo
184 8/15/2001 Eyefull
185 8/16/2001 Out of the city
186 8/17/2001 From Bath to North Wales
187 8/20/2001 A postcard from Belfast
188 8/21/2001 Northern Ireland-II
189 8/22/2001 Out of the troubled North
190 8/23/2001 Galway Bay
191 8/24/2001 Quentessential Ireland
192 8/27/2001 The final three days abroad
193 8/28/2001 Home again, home again
194 8/29/2001 Post partum
195 8/30/2001 Mitchelstown
196 8/31/2001 Post mortem
197 9/3/2001 Llangollen, Wales
198 9/4/2001 Scottish travels 1
199 9/5/2001 Scottish travels 2
200 9/6/2001 Scottish travels 3
201 9/7/2001 Scottish travels 4
202 9/10/2001 Scottish travels 5
203 9/11/2001 Scottish travels 6
204 9/12/2001 No publication today; international day of mourning and prayer
205 9/13/2001 Topic A #1
206 9/14/2001 Topic A, #2
207 9/17/2001 Our inferiority complex 1
208 9/18/2001 Our inferiority complex, cont.
209 9/19/2001 Responses to "our inferiority complex"
210 9/20/2001 Where is God? -1
211 9/21/2001 Where is God? - 2
212 9/24/2001 Where is God? - 3
213 9/25/2001 Responses
214 9/26/2001 Moving on
215 9/27/2001 Thinking outside the box
216 9/28/2001 20/20 Hindsight
217 10/1/2001 Let's do lunch - 1
218 10/2/2001 Let's do lunch - 2
219 10/3/2001 Let's do lunch - 3
220 10/4/2001 Kinder, gentler?
221 10/5/2001 Anniversary thoughts
222 10/8/2001 Procedural notes
223 10/9/2001 Taking care of business
224 10/10/2001 Wake-up call
225 10/11/2001 Awakening
226 10/12/2001 Fargo
227 10/15/2001 Lessons learned
228 10/16/2001 The fear factor
229 10/17/2001 Little murders
230 10/18/2001 Memoirs
231 10/19/2001 Memoirs—calling to ministry
232 10/22/2001 Memoirs—loving and leaving the ministry
233 10/23/2001 Memoirs—mourning turned to joy
234 10/24/2001 Memoirs—nudging versus calling
235 10/26/2001 The Valley's future in tourism
236 10/29/2001 A commentary on mass media
237 10/30/2001 Desperate times reveal media's "relgious" biases

238

 10/31/2001 The media's betrayal of trust
239 11/1/2001 The myth of media "neutrality"
240 11/2/2001 Pluralism
241 11/6/2001 No fast/no feast -1
242 11/7/2001 No fast/no feast - 2
243 11/8/2001 No fast/no feast - 3
244 11/11/2001 More than you wanted to know on fasting
245 11/12/2001 Anticipation
246 11/13/2001 No guts, no glory
247 11/14/2001 No fast, no feast; last in series
248 11/15/2001 Hunting season
249 11/16/2001 Hunting
260 11/20/2001 November '63
261 11/21/2001 Thanksgiving eve
262 11/22/2001 Thanksgiving—an attitude of gratitude
263 11/23/2001 A hard week for topics
264 11/26/2001 Thanksgiving in hindsight
265 11/27/2001 Self-worth
266 11/28/2001 Self-esteem
267 11/29/2001 Self-image
268 11/30/2001 The first deadly sin
269 12/4/2001 Season's greetings
270 12/5/2001 Back to self-analysis
271 12/6/2001 A self-analysis test for fun: do you color within the lines?
272 12/7/2001 Bartoothed Netscape
273 12/10/2001 Thanks, Netscape
274 12/11/2001 California state of mind - 1
275 12/12/2001 California state of mind - 2
276 12/13/2001 California state of mind - 3
277 12/14/2001 California dreamin'
278 12/18/2001 Christmas reflections
279 12/19/2001 Christmas reflections - picking names
280 12/20/2001 Christmas reflections - Christmas music and antimusic
281 12/21/2001 Christmas reflections - O tannenbaum
282 12/24/2001 Christmas letter 2001
283 12/25/2001 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (from Alliance Life, with music)
284 12/26/2001 The feast
285 12/27/2001 Home for Christmas, 1
286 12/28/2001 Home for Christmas, 2
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2002 - 142 ‘Jonal’ articles
287 1/1/2002 Happy New Year
288 1/2/2002 Resolutions
289 1/4/2002 Passages
290 1/8/2002 New Jersey -1
291 1/9/2002 New Jersey - 2
292 1/10/2002 South Jersey towns
293 1/11/2002 Horatio hornblower
294 1/14/2002 Logismoi
295 1/15/2002 Destructive thought forms
296 1/16/2002 Word up
297 1/17/2002 Bon mots
298 1/18/2002 Last words on words
299 1/22/2002 That was then
300 1/23/2002 Pop culture "phenoms"
301 1/24/2002 Mia culpa—a confession and apology; more emailed page updates lost
302 1/25/2002 Three-dot journalism
303 1/28/2002 Television
304 1/29/2002 TV stats and effects
305 1/30/2002 Television and society
306 1/31/2002 Educational television - 1
307 2/1/2002 Educational television - 2
308 2/5/2002 Weather or whether not
309 2/6/2002 Scruples
310 2/7/2002 Politically incorrect
311 2/8/2002 A mess of dottage
312 2/11/2002 Is this anything?
313 2/12/2002 Significance
314 2/13/2002 Roots Western Pennsylvania cultural accoutrements
315 2/14/2002 Half-baked ideas
316 2/15/2002 More half-baked ideas
317 2/19/2002 Town web pages
318 2/20/2002 Creature of habit
319 2/21/2002 Creatures of habits
320 2/22/2002 Working for the weekend
321 2/26/2002 College daze
322 2/27/2002 Favorite campuses
323 2/28/2002 Berserkley
324 3/1/2002 Time warps
325 3/5/2002 Passages: Steve Lester 1
326 3/6/2002 Passages: Steve Lester 2
327 3/7/2002 Passages: Steve Lester 3
328 3/8/2002 Passages: Steve Lester 4
329 3/12/2002 Using the news
330 3/13/2002 Hawking the news
331 3/14/2002 All the news that fits
332 3/15/2002 Gateways and gatekeepers
333 3/19/2002 Much ado about Oscars
334 3/20/2002 Life's too short (Topic A) Thoughts on the passing of Dino Rudolph
335 3/21/2002 Movie tastes
336 3/22/2002 Interference
337 3/26/2002 Leaves of grass
338 3/27/2002 Leaves of grass, continued
339 3/28/2002 Domenick Gelotte
340 3/29/2002 Mike Shutak
341 4/2/2002 Web surfing
342 4/3/2002 New computer 1
343 4/4/2002 New computer 2: Speed
344 4/5/2002 New computer 3: Software
345 4/9/2002 Keypunch needed
346 4/10/2002 Senior moments and out of touch
347 4/11/2002 Martyrdom
348 4/12/2002 Sainthood
349 4/16/2002 Joe Yobaggy - 1
350 4/17/2002 Joe Yobaggy - 2
351 4/18/2002 Joe Yobaggy - 3
352 4/19/2002 The Lincoln Mine project
353 4/24/2002 Places to meet
354 4/25/2002 Johnstown vs. The Real World
355 4/29/2002 A reporter's notes
356 4/30/2002 Blogging
357 5/1/2002 Blogging on
358 5/2/2002 Free the 'net!
359 5/3/2002 Democratization of the mass media
360 5/7/2002 News that doesn't signify
361 5/8/2002 Nanty Glo names
362 5/9/2002 Dogmas I
363 5/10/2002 Dogmas II
364 5/14/2002 Dogmas III - forbidding priests to marry
365 5/15/2002 Dogmas IV - birth control and divorce
366 5/16/2002 Dogmas V - responses
367 5/17/2002 Another Twin Rocks
368 5/21/2002 Places like home - 1
369 5/22/2002 Places like home - 2
379 5/23/2002 Places like home - 3
380 5/24/2002 Places like home - 4
381 5/28/2002 Lost Weekend
382 5/29/2002 Commercials
383 5/30/2002 The Home Page's first annual Commercial Gloer Awards
384 5/31/2002 Last day of school
385 6/4/2002 The Class of '60 turns 60
386 6/5/2002 Moonlight swims
387 6/6/2002 Thises and thats
388 6/7/2002 Late night jonal entry
389 6/11/2002 Welcome, Jackson Township pages
390 6/12/2002 Townies, buskids
391 6/13/2002 Having a plan is halfway there
392 6/14/2002 Father's Day
393 6/18/2002 Father's Day, cont., "success"
394 6/19/2002 Evening forays
395 6/20/2002 Verse, or worse
396 6/21/2002 Rejection
397 6/25/2002 Rejection and sports
398 6/26/2002 Rejection and pets
399 6/27/2002 God-forsaken
400 6/28/2002 Pity party
401 7/2/2002 Unfinished business
402 7/3/2002 Summer doldrums
403 7/4/2002 What's in a headline?
404 7/5/2002 Biased—and bogus—reporting
405 7/9/2002 McIntire - 1 (My memoir of working for the late Dr. Carl McIntire)
406 7/10/2002 McIntire - 2
407 7/11/2002 McIntire - 3
408 7/12/2002 McIntire - 4
409 7/16/2002 McIntire - 5, positives
410 7/17/2002 McIntire - 6, Lessons learned (series finale)
411 7/18/2002 Joys of writing
412 7/19/2002 Saving it
413 7/23/2002 The better part of wisdom
414 7/24/2002 Old news
415 7/25/2002 Antisocial
416 7/26/2002 Kid friendly
417 7/30/2002 Notes
418 7/31/2002 Wonderful trip
419 8/1/2002 First vacation as an adult, 1
420 8/2/2002 First vacation as an adult, 2
421 8/6/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 1 En route with sons Mike and Kevin
422 8/7/2002 Journal of our journey - 2 London
423 8/8/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 3 to Ireland
424 8/9/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 3 Glendalough
425 8/13/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 4 to Belfast
426 8/14/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 5 Galway
427 8/15/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 6 Limerick/Dublin
428 8/16/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 7 Dublin to Paris
429 8/19/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 8 Paris
430 8/20/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 9
431 8/21/2002 Journal of our vacation journey - 10
432 8/22/2002 If you go
433 8/23/2002 Jet lagged
434 8/27/2002 A writer can write anything
435 8/28/2002 Flying 1
436 8/29/2002 Flying 2
437 8/30/2002 Flying 3
438 9/3/2002 No rest for the wicked
439 9/4/2002 Creativity never rests
440 9/5/2002 Haste makes waste
441 9/6/2002 One picture is worth 1000 words
442 9/10/2002 More photos
443 9/11/2002 "As" and "like"
444 9/12/2002 "As" and "like" - 2
445 9/13/2002 Alms for the poor
446 9/17/2002 Alms, and "as" and "like"
447 9/18/2002 Teasing
448 9/19/2002 Computer frustrations
449 9/20/2002 Computer frustrations - 2
450 9/24/2002 Computer frustration? How about a 'Godsend'?
451 9/25/2002 Computer finale
452 9/26/2002 Memory eternal
453 9/27/2002 Pre-retired
454 10/1/2002 Road rage
455 10/2/2002 Age rage
456 10/3/2002 Rage analysis -1
457 10/4/2002 Rage analysis - 2
458 10/8/2002 Tongue in cheek
459 10/9/2002 Exaggerating to make a point
460 10/10/2002 Statements made for effect
461 10/11/2002 Risking miscommunication
462 10/15/2002 Sentimental journey—El Camino Real
463 10/16/2002 Sentimental journey—The South Coast and Lompoc
464 10/17/2002 Sentimental journey—On to Venice
465 10/18/2002 Sentimental journey—Can't go "home" again
466 10/22/2002 Unorganized religion
467 10/23/2002 Christianity without church
468 10/24/2002 "Personal" religion
469 10/29/2002 Who would need a computer?
479 10/30/2002 Life here in the future
471 10/31/2002 Fright Night Fiction; a Halloween short story
472 11/1/2002 Get hooked on e-toys  Letter from Judy Rose
473 11/5/2002 More get hooked on e-toys Letters from Sallie Covolo, Trudy Myers
474 11/6/2002 Another project Introducing Xnmp's Newscomments
475 11/7/2002 Don't ask, don't tell Has broken link to People magazine story
476 11/8/2002 Don't go there Has broken link to People magazine story
477 11/12/2002 Who's got an item?
478 11/13/2002 "Atheistic Christianity"
479 11/14/2002 "Dumbed-down Christianity"
480 11/15/2002 Consolation (includes letter from David Caldwell re. atheistic Christianity)
481 11/19/2002 On the road again - 1 from Willows, Calif. (includes letter from Geo. Dilling re. atheistic Christianity)
482 11/20/2002 On the road again - 2 from Willows, Calif.
483 11/21/2002 On the road again - 3 from Willows, Calif.
484 11/22/2002 On the road again - 4 from Willows, Calif.
485 11/26/2002 Thanksgiving memories
486 11/27/2002 Thanksgiving memories 2
487 11/29/2002 Thanksgiving memories, 2002
488 12/3/2002 Charisma
489 12/4/2002 Charisma - 2
490 12/5/2002 Something's happenin' here
491 12/6/2002 Touched by an angel
492 12/10/2002 Encounters with angels - 1
493 12/11/2002 Encounters with angels - 2
494 12/12/2002 Encounters with angels - 3
495 12/13/2002 Encounters with angels - 4
496 12/17/2002 Encounters with angels - 5
497 12/18/2002 Angels and holy people
498 12/19/2002 Angels and charismatic and holy people
499 12/20/2002 Godly and ungodly charisma
500 12/24/2002 Christmas letter 2002
501 12/25/2002 Santa Claus pro or con?
502 12/27/2002 Remains of the day
503 12/31/2002 Remains of the season and year
RETURN TO TOP (2001) | 2002 | 2004 | BOTTOM
2003 - 155 ‘Jonal’ articles
504 1/1/2003 A fresh start
505 1/2/2003 Resolutions
506 1/3/2003 Cleaning house
507 1/7/2003 Calendars
508 1/8/2003 Trophies for all
509 1/9/2003 Smoking and anti-smoking
510 1/10/2003 A teen event 1
511 1/14/2003 Ah youth 2
512 1/15/2003 Skulls full of mush 3
513 1/16/2003 School days—the best and the worst of times 4
514 1/17/2003 School ideals vs. realities 5
515 1/20/2003 Academic reform 6
516 1/22/2003 Nontraditional academics 7
517 1/24/2003 Totalitarianism in public education 8
518 1/27/2003 No cigar
519 1/29/2003 A matter of life and death
520 1/31/2003 Counterpoints from David
521 2/2/2003 Last words on a hard topic (#1)
522 2/3/2003 Last words on a hard topic (#2)
523 2/5/2003 Choice
524 2/7/2003 Choice 2
525 2/10/2003 Topics and topicality
526 2/14/2003 Record wrecked(?)
527 2/17/2003 Weather, whether
528 2/19/2003 More weather
529 2/21/2003 More Internet woes
530 2/24/2003 Culture wars 1
531 2/26/2003 Culture wars - 2
532 3/03/2003 Culture wars - 3
533 3/5/2003 Culture wars - 4; Armageddon
534 3/7/2003 Culture wars - 5
535 3/10/2003 Culture wars - 6
536 3/12/2003 Culture wars - 7 (Last in series)
537 3/14/2003 St. Patrick
538 3/17/2003 Some St. Patrick's Day glimpses of Ireland
539 3/19/2003 Hillbillies
540 3/21/2003 Friday's bits and pieces
541 3/24/2003 Memories - 1
542 3/26/2003 Memories - 2
543 3/28/2003 Memories - 3
544 3/31/2003 Onion snow
545 4/2/2003 Telejournalistic bits
546 4/4/2003 Why do they hate? - 1
547 4/7/2003 Why do they hate? - 2
548 4/9/2003 Why do they hate? - 3
549 4/11/2003 Why do they hate? - 4
550 4/14/2003 Death and taxes
551 4/16/2003 Bertrand Russell's essays
552 4/18/2003 Should children be happy? 1
553 4/21/2003 Should children be happy? 2
554 4/23/2003 Should children be happy, or molded into shape? 3
555 4/25/2003 Should children be happy? (end of series) 4
556 4/28/2003 Harry and Ozziette
557 4/30/2003 Senator Santorum's gaffe
558 5/2/2004 Majority rules
559 5/5/2003 Checks and balances
560 5/7/2003 Not a betting man
561 5/9/2003 Mother's counsels
562 5/12/2003 To forgive or gloat
563 5/14/2003 News roundup
564 5/16/2003 Fair and balanced
565 5/19/2003 Little epiphanies
566 5/21/2003 Eternal now
567 5/23/2003 News roundup
568 5/26/2003 The old curmudgeon
569 5/28/2003 New York, New York
570 5/30/2003 News roundup
571 6/2/2003 Birthday by the Bay
572 6/4/2003 All complaints graciously received
573 6/6/2003 The gadgets of our lives
574 6/9/2003 45 years ago this month... From my scrapbook: Teen Events,
a column from the Nanty Glo Journal in June, 1958
575 6/11/2003 Poverty and material affluence
576 6/13/2003 Western materialism
577 6/16/2003 Economically qualified
578 6/18/2003 My summer reading 1 The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983
579 6/20/2003 Word pictures  2
580 6/23/2003 Christians and the sexual revolution - 1
581 6/25/2003 Christians and the sexual revolution - 2
582 6/27/2003 Christians and the sexual revolution - 3
583 6/30/2003 Christians and the sexual revolution - 4
584 7/4/2003 Christians and the sexual revolution (end of series) 5
585 7/7/2003 The TVs of the future
586 7/9/2003 News update
587 7/11/2003 The Long, Hot Summer...45 years later
588 7/14/2003 I'll show them!
589 7/16-/2003 Showing them!
590 7/18/2003 Moment of truth
591 7/21/2003 R-e-s-p-e-c-t
592 7/23/2003 Turning points
593 7/25/2003 Use the force
594 7/28/2003 Stop and smell the roses
595 7/30/2003 Maps
596 8/1/2003 Tourism
597 8/4/2003 Pay it forward 1
598 8/6/2003 But really, what can you do (to change the world)? 2
599 8/8/2003 Role models 3
600 8/11/2003 Ultimate role models 4
601 8/13/2003 It's the saints (last in the series on role models) 5
602 8/20/2003 One from the Great White Way - vacation journal, part 1 August 13
603 8/22/2003 Where were you when the lights went out? - vacation journal, part 2, August 14
604 8/25/2003 Miracle on The Bowery - vacation journal, part 3, continuing August 14
605 8/27/2003 Escape from New York Friday, August 15 - vacation journal, part 4
606 8/29/2003 Homecoming day Saturday, August 16 - vacation journal, part 5
607 9/1/2003 Kennedy reunion day Sunday, August 17 - vacation journal, part 6
608 9/3/2003 Kishacoquillas Valley and return to New York Monday, August 18 - vacation journal, part 7
609 9/5/2003 Last day of vacation, in New York Tuesday, August 19 - vacation journal, part 8
610 9/8/2003 If you go... 9
611 9/10/2003 Jetlagged...reflections - 1
612 9/12-/2003 Jetlagged...reflections - 2
613 9/15/2003 An escalator to the future
614 9/17/2003 Gospel and politics 1
615 9/19/2003 Nanty Glo Home Page Sixth Anniversary
616 9/22/2003 Fun facts
617 9/24/2003 More fun facts
618 9/26/2003 Keep a good thing going
619 9/29/2003 Gospel and politics, 2
620 10/1/2003 St. Paul's Gospel (Gospel and politics), 3
621 10/3/2003 Gospel and politics, 4
622 10/6/2003 Hopalong Cassidy
623 10/8/2003 Found on the way to look up something else
624 10/10/2003 If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
625 10/13/2003 New York afterthoughts
626 10/15/2003 Less is adequate
627 10/17/2003 Rush to judgment
628 10/20/2003 Jimmy Carter, where are you now?
629 10/22/2003 Unconventional wisdom, perhaps
630 10/24/2003 Misunderstandings
631 10/27/2003 Slow time
632 10/29/2003 A question about forgiveness 1
633 11/3/2003 Forgiveness; innocence 3
634 11/5/2003 The quality of mercy
635 11/7/2003 Boycotts and censorship
636 11/10/2003 Stewardship
637 11/12/2003 Thoughts du jour
638 11/14/2003 A hospital for needy souls
639 11/17/2003 Frames of reference
640 11/19/2003 Frames of reference: conservative, liberal
641 11/21/2003 Frames of reference: the liberal establishment
642 11/24/2003 Frames of reference: conservative/liberal 1
643 11/26/2003 Frames of reference: biblical roots of conservative and liberal 2
644 11/28/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative): 3
645 12/1-/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative): 4
646 12/3/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 5
647 12/5/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 6
648 12/8/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 7
649 12/12/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 8
650 12/15/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 9
651 12/17/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 10
652 12/19/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 11
653 12/22/2003 Frames of reference (liberal/conservative), 12 (last of series)
654 12/24/2003 Christmas letter for 2003
655 12/26/2003 'Silence is consent'
656 12/29/2003 Some responses to 'frames of reference' series
657 12/31/2003 Ghosts of Christmas past
RETURN TO TOP (2001) | 2002 | 2003 | BOTTOM

2004 - 145 ‘Jonal’ articles
658 1/2/2004 Remains of the season
659 1/5/2004 Two great lost-in-swamp movies
660 1/9/2004 A great leftwing conspiracy? A tongue-in-cheek rumination
661 1/12/2004 January's slough of despond
662 1/14/2004 First things
663 1/16/2004 The flip side
664 1/19/2004 Defense of marriage 1
665 1/23/2004 Defense of marriage - 2
666 1/26/2004 Defense of marriage - 3 (a riff)
667 1/28/2004 Defense of marriage - 4, "gay marriage"
668 1/30/2004 Defense of marriage - 5 A Protestant statement on "gay marriage"
669 2/2/2004 Defense of marriage - 6
670 2/4/2004 Defense of marriage - 7 and final—the 'secular' case
671 2/6/2004 This and that
672 2/9/2004 Debate vs. argument
673 2/11/2004 The plague
674 2/13/2004 Topic A
675 2/16/2004 Ethics
676 2/18/2004 Ecumenism
677 2/20/2004 A spot quiz
678 2/23/2004 Reunion syndrome
679 2/25/2004 Electing our priests
680 2/27/2004 City on a hill
681 3/1/2004 The misrepresenting of the Christ
682 3/3/2004 Who do you trust?
683 3/5/2004 I left my heart...
684 3/8/2004 Nature, nurture, and genetics
685 3/10/2004 The problem of evil
686 3/12/2004 It's all about...
687 3/15/2004 Notable quotables
688 3/17/2004 A great day for the Irish
689 3/19/2004 An outsider's interference
690 3/22/2004 Answering the mail, second of two parts
691 3/24/2004 Fascism and the Gospel
692 3/26/2004 A widening chasm?
693 3/29/2004 Do-overs 1
694 3/31/2004 Do-overs again 2
695 4/2/2004 The Passion of the Christ
696 4/5/2004 Topic sentences
697 4/7/2004 Favorites
698 4/9/2004 Evolution and UFOs
699 4/12/2004 Conversion
700 4/14/2004 Interpretations
701 4/16/2004 Martyrdom 1
702 4/19/2004 Modern-day martyrdom 2
703 4/21/2004 Intellectual/ism 1
704 4/23/2004 Intellectual/ism, continued 2
705 4/26/2004 Perspectives
706 4/28/2004 The top five
707 4/30/2004 A second chance
708 5/3/2004 Short takes
709 5/5/2004 True stories
710 5/10/2004 Postmodernism 1
711 5/12/2004 To forgive or gloat
712 5/14/2004 Postmoderns 2
713 5/17/2004 Postmodern references 3
714 5/19/2004 Duplicity—being of two minds 1
715 5/21/2004 More on hypocrisy 2
716 5/24/2004 There will be a quiz
717 5/26/2004 Bread and circuses, 1
718 5/28/2004 Bread and circuses, 2
719 5/31/2004 Happy Memorial Day
720 6/2/2004 So rare
721 6/4/2004 Notes personal and business
722 6/7/2004 Another perspective
723 6/9/2004 Chaos theory
724 6/11/2004 Church and state and Ronald Reagan
725 6/14/2004 Insights on the writing process
726 6/16/2004 Today's Topic A
727 6/18/2004 God and countries
728 6/21/2004 Gadgets
729 6/23/2004 Are you worth it?
730 6/25/2004 Who do you trust?
731 7/5/2004 Travel writing (touring New Mexico) 1
732 7/6/2004 Travel writing (touring New Mexico-2) 2
733 7/7/2004 Touring New Mexico-what to see 3
734 7/9/2004 Touring New Mexico-what to see  4
735 7/12/2004 Touring New Mexico- what to see-Santa Fe 5
736 7/14/2004 It's your home page
737 7/16/2004 What's up with that?
738 7/19/2004 Journalism 101
739 7/21/2004 The Left will be left behind
740 7/23/2004 Practical atheism
741 7/26/2004 Intolerance
742 7/28/2004 Rudeness
743 7/30/2004 'Eighties revisited
744 8/2/2004 Why does CBS want a 'gay network'?
745 8/4/2004 The four basic mind-food groups 1
746 8/6/2004 First of the four basic mind-food groups: God 2
747 8/9/2004 Second of the four basic mind-food groups: Family 3
748 8/11/2004 Third of the four basic mind-food groups: Self 4
749 8/13/2004 Fourth of the four basic mind-food groups: Nihil(ism) 5
750 8/16/2004 Open-mindedness 1
751 8/18/2004 Open-mindedness, 2
752 8/23/2004 Open-mindedness, 3
753 8/25/2004 Ah, Picksburgh
754 8/27/2004 Elitists
755 8/30/2004 Etoys revisited 1
756 9/1/2004 My latest etoy 2
757 9/3/2004 Trip journal from Pennsylvania 1
758 9/6/2004 Trip journal from Pennsylvania 2
759 9/8/2004 Trip journal from Pennsylvania 3
760 9/10/2004 Trip journal from Pennsylvania 4
761 9/13/2004 A couple of week-old leftovers
762 9/15/2004 Methodists and Catholics
763 9/17/2004 Wrapup: Vintondale Homecoming
764 9/20/2004 Happy anniversary to us (we're No. 1 out of 179,000,000!)
765 9/22/2004 Sovereignty 1
766 9/24/2004 Sovereignty and the problem of evil 2
767 9/27/2004 Voting values
768 9/29/2004 Dredging up the past
769 10/1/2004 'Sixties awakenings 1
770 10/4/2004 The youth revolution 2
771 10/6/2004 Stumble in haste, repent in leisure 3
772 10/8/2004 The 'sixties: one last revisit 4
773 10/11/2004 W and E (President Bush and Elvis)
774 10/13/2004 Theoretical thought 1 (Discussion of movie, 2001, A Space Odyssey)
775 10/15/2004 Learning how to think (theoretical thought) 2
776 10/25/2004 Learning how to think, continued (theoretical thought) 3
777 10/27/2004 The fountainhead (theoretical thought) 4
778 10/29/2004 Screens and filters (theoretical thought) 5
779 11/1/2004 POV (theoretical thought) 6
780 11/3/2004 A quick review (theoretical thought) 7
781 11/5/2004 Frame of reference (theoretical thought) 8
782 11/8/2004 Church teachings as worldview matrix (theoretical thought) 9
783 11/10/2004 The aftermath (theoretical thought) 10
784 11/12/2004 Portals of the mind (theoretical thought) 11
785 11/15/2004 What it's not (theoretical thought) 12
786 11/17/2004 The cultural mandate
787 11/19/2004 Re: definitions 1
788 11/22/2004 Another set of redefinitions 2
789 11/24/2004 Dysfunctional families
790 11/26/2004

My grandchildren
791 11/29/2004 Voucher education
792 12/01/2004 Food and morality
793 12/03/2004 Fair and balanced 1
794 12/06/2004 Intentionally imbalanced 2
795 12/08/2004 The Commandments
796 12/10/2004 Sinners and their sins (homosexuals/homosexuality; homosexual/gay)
797 12/13/2004 Putting Dickens back into Christmas
798 12/15/2004 Skip Christmas?
799 12/17/2004 The anti-Christmas spirit
800 12/20/2004 Christmas Kings and suns
801 12/22/2004 Christmas origin and dates
802 12/24/2004 Christmas questions
803 12/25/2004 Christmas letter 2004
804 12/27/2004 More Christmas questions
805 12/28/2004 Analogies
2005 - 127 ‘Jonal’ articles
806 1/3/2005 Christmas Questions—ten What the church says about Christmas
807 1/5/2005 Christmas Questions—finale Christmas and joy, evangelism, and cultural formation
808 1/7/2005 God and disasters Where was God when the tsuanamis hit?
809 1/10/2005 A mantle passed Introducing Nancy Pearcey's Total Truth
810 1/12/2005 Awakenings America's First Great Awakening
811 1/14/2005 A giant awakes...and makes a break Hybrid Christianity
812 1/17/2005 Common and uncommon sense Common sense realism; Christianity and culture
813 1/19/2005 Our original reality show How common sense realism molds America
814 1/21/2005

Self-evident truths The mindset of the Revolutionary War and revival era
815 1/24/2005

Some personal correlations My agnostic "Protestant" forebears
816 1/26/2005

Common sense then and now A failure of theoretical thought in popular religion
817 1/28/2005

When common sense isn't Conclusion of the series on evangelical history
818 1/31/2005

A religion of peace? Answer to question about Islam
819 2/1/2005

Blowing my horn; a press release Introducing this index; PR from Stephen Bennett
820 2/2/2005

More thoughts on Interference On not sexualizing children.

821 2/4/2005

Sexualizing culture - 1 Sexuality in the Belsano first grade
2/7/2005

Sexualizing culture - 2: teens How television's eroded standards sexualize our kids
2/9/2005

Sexualizing culture - 3: college campuses The campus seen as sexual carnival
2/11/2005

Nanty Glo was rock and roll Some things were different in the day
2/14/2005

'Feedback' on sexualizing series

2/16/2005

A woman's perspective on sexualizing
2/18/2005

Rambling Wreck from Red Mill Road Thoughts mostly on music
2/21/2005

Consistent life theology; gun ownership and use Taking issues with Fr. John Breck's takes

2/22/2005

Theocracy
2/23/2005

How Far Back? If the Conservatives give us the Middle Ages, what do the Liberals give?

2/23/2005

How Far Back? part two
2/28/2005

A liberal bastian gets—or rediscovers—religion A surprising NY Times article

3/02/2005

Millstones How the protective cocoon for children has unraveled
3/04/2005

Behavior modeling Who are the children God wants us to protect?
3/07/2005

Hunger for orthodoxy Not capital-O Orthodoxy but the quest for truth or right
3/09/2005

Finding the right Back to theoretical thought
3/11/2005

Make up your mind Thinking theoretically means rebuilding your mind
3/14/2005

Brushes with technology History: Linotype comes to Nanty Glo
3/16/2005

My early brushes with technology - 2 The old way newspapers were printed
3/18/2005

Brushes with technology - 3
3/21/2005

Brushes with technology - 4 The Linotype as rudimentary computer.
3/23/2005

Hollywood's good news...? R-rating movies are down, PG and PG-13 up
3/25/2005

Annunciations Changing the subject to the Terri Shiavo case
3/28/2005

Some of my best friends Perhaps the best article on 'gay marriage' is introduced

3/30/2005

Jewish renaissance? Religious Judaism seems to be making a comeback
4/01/2005

Liberals, here? Who will take the challenge to balance the forum?
4/04/2005

A sweet fragrance Reflections on the passing of Terri Shiavo and Pope John Paul II

4/06/2005

Why I'm a writer If we had the verbal acuity of Robin Williams, we wouldn't bother....
4/08/2005

More thoughts about why I'm a writer
4/11/2005

Another reason I became a writer
4/13/2005

I write, ergo I am
4/15/2005

Twice born A look at what some consider a magic formula to get you into heaven
4/19/2005

Being discovered Still waiting for that big break
4/20/2005

Being discovered 2 -recognition Being recognized brings motivation
4/22/2005

Being discovered 3 -validation Working and waiting

4/25/2005

Later spring views Photos of spring flowers sent by David and Patty Caldwell
4/27/2005

'Liberal' evangelicals Why media and Democrat strategists are looking to recruit.
4/29/2005

Welfarism leads to totalitarianism Why the 'Christian left' misses the point
Nanty Glo.com server was down for most of week
5/06/2005

Where were we? Why are some "religious" countries inclined to socialism?
5/09/2005

What's left? Why the "Christian left" is wrong.
5/11/2005

A letter to a teen columnist Helpful words to the wise, or something
5/13/2005

Is sex funny? A surprising confirmation in C.S. Lewis
5/16/2005

The unfunny side of sex Why dirty jokes and words are unholy
5/18/2005

Creating our own worlds Renaissance versus traditionalism
5/20/2005

Creativity and liberalism

5/24/2005

A confession of atheirstic faith Christian "dominionism"
5/25/2005

Challenging untruths in Marc Alexander's letter Christian "dominionism," 2
5/27/2005

The 'truths' in Marc Alexander's letter Christian "dominionism," 3
5/30/2005

Dirty work but someone has to do it A company trip to Yosemite National Park
5/31/2005

View from (and of) a rock A visit to Alcatraz
6/01/2005

Life's joyful-sad moments Brandi's eighth-grade graduation
6/03/2005

My boycott of Ford Ford Motor Company has joined the dark side

6/06/2005

Ford boycott suspended | Cromwell Thoughts about a 'Christian' political leader
6/08/2005

Godly rulers From the Old Testament to William Gladstone
6/10/2005

Are things better, or worse, since 1960? Cup half full or half empty?
6/13/2005

Better, or worse, 'society' since 1960? Few responses to survey question to list
6/15/2005

Looking closer at changes to 'society' since 1960 New look introduced!
6/17/2005

Thinking theoretically about social upheaval and progress
6/20/2005

Continuing the discussion of social changes since the 1960s
6/22/2005

On with the discussion of social changes since the 1960s

6/24/2005

More discussion of social changes since the 1960s

6/27/2005

Feminism and the sexualizing of American culture
6/29/2005

Gay liberation and feminism
7/01/2005

Death as a way of life Wisdom from...Steve Jobs?
7/04/2005

Word studies What do words like 'intelligent design' really mean?
7/06/2005

More word studies Evangel -ical -ist -ism
7/08/2005

Longing for the monastery Not to be a monk, but...
7/08/2005

It is as it was—Longing for the monastery 2
7/13/2005

Defining "religion"
7/15/2005

Religion is life
7/18/2005

Revisiting the 'second tier' Another look at pop music
7/20/2005

More music
7/22/2005

Lite notes
7/25/2005

But I was much older then How the eternal youth phenomenon is warping culture
7/27/2005

The nonvirtue of selfishness What Monday's Jonal was not about

7/29/2005

Allusiveness (or, it's about the writing)
     
8/01/2005

Headlines worth reading and pausing to reflect upon
8/03/2005

Word studies: scandal and secrecy Confession and communion
8/05/2005

Think globally Loving your neighbor nations
8/08/2005

Word studies: Thinking globally vs. one-worldism
8/10/2005

Only two options are viable Leftist/secularism vs. Judeo-Christianity
8/12/2005

Word studies: multiculturalism vs. pluralism Wringing somenew changes
8/15/2005

Partial-birth abortion When do news media become accessories to murder?
8/17/2005

The seven Nohaides A way of salvation within Judaism for non-Jews
8/19/2005

The Nohaides and today's news Christian right and Jewish right mutuality
8/22/2005

Making heaven wait? Why struggle to keep such a miserable life going when heaven's so great?
8/23/2005

Making heaven wait? —take two
8/26/2005

Pat Robertson's carelessness Loose lips sink Christians' approval ratings
8/29/2005

Trivial pursuits The life centered on 'things' and acquisitions
8/312005

Playing the fool Another look at the Sermon on the Mount
     
9/022005

Living past 30 More thoughts on Peter Pan syndrome
9/05/2005

Actually, it's the Left that's promoting an establishment of religion
9/07/2005

Who's to blame? Katrina: God, the President, gay casinos?
9/09/2005

God, gays, Gaza, gambling, or George W.? Who's to blame, 2
9/12/2005

A 'conservative' teen columnist calls for separating religion and disaster-relief politics
9/14/2005

Christian worldview redux Getting acquainted with God changes everything else
9/16/2005

No straw after Labor Day A pocketful of notes on several items
9/19/2005

Eighth anniversary reflections It hasn't been our best year
9/21/2005

'Mere Christianity' and anabaptism Universal faith and some departures
9/23/2005

Potpourri A second pocketful of notes
9/26/2005

What makes something 'Christian'? Is the United States a 'Christian nation'?
9/28/2005

What doesn't make something 'Christian'? Fruit of the spirit.
9/30/2005

A pocketful of peeves Friday roundup

10/3/2005

Bad science The good type of science has no need for totalitarian tactics
10/5/2005

Bad theology Religious exclusivity
10/7/2005

Allegheny rambler A collection of pocket lint
10/10/2005

Security of the believer Calvinist, and Orthodox, theological views
10/12/2005

Goin' fishing Plans for trip to Home Page Country
10/14/2005

Report from the Home Page front
10/17/2005

A good time was had by all The webmaster 'roasted' in Nanty Glo
10/21/2005

Friday pocket pickin's The webcam dream is fading fast
10/24/2005

Truth in labeling People for "the" American Way?
10/26/2005

Halloween Should Christians oppose it?
10/28/2005

Jet-lagging Fighting vacation post-partum or...?
10/31/2005

The true meaning of healing
     
11/02/2005

Where the rubber meets the road Relativism vs. absolute truths
11/04/2005

Parallel universes The American left and right hardly know each other any more
11/07/2005

Reduced load An exciting development; Pride of the Valley
11/09/2005

A new perspective on a familiar sight Johnstown's Incline Plane
     
12/02/2005

Finally We're back after our Internet service was disrupted on November 9
60 ‘Jonal’ articles - 2006
1/20/2006

Nice to be Back On being back online, and thoughts about Anne Rice's Jesus novel
1/23/2006

Anne Rice's Jesus Thoughts about Anne Rice's novel and the gnostic gospels
1/25/2006

Gnosticism The ancient occult 'knowledge' religion
1/27/2006

Lesson learned More thoughts on Anne Rice novel; great tribulation
1/30/2006

Word studies Heresy, apostasy
     
2/01/2006

The irrationality of believing
2/03/2006

Righteous outrage and outrageous behavior We're all comedians.
2/06/2006

A mystery from Twin Rocks, circa 1955 A famous quartet plays the Big Bend School Auditorium
2/08/2006

Ineffability Maybe that's what he meant instead of 'irrationality'?
2/10/2006

A magnificent (?) obsession Is there too much emphasis on sex?
2/13/2006

Two poles of opinjion on the cartoon controversy
2/15/2006

A prisoner of my past A little of this and that.
2/17/2006

Mid-winter reading Miscellaneous excerpts

2/20/2006

Word studies: frugality and stewardship
2/22/2006