Eye on Faith

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Steph Curry: Way too selfless?

Shine on, Steph! (Photo by Keith Allison)

If deference were the 11^th commandment, Steph Curry would have a sure place in heaven.

But some say that last year’s MVP has been selfless to a fault ever since Durant came along. After Christmas Day’s loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, even Curry admitted: I’ve just got to figure out a way to be more aggressive.

When Durant joined the Golden State Warriors, Curry assured him that there was plenty of room for two stars in that galaxy. True to his word, Curry has been “more concerned with making others comfortable” than with being Numero Uno.

All that's probably why Curry, within a mere six months, “has gone from transcendent to replaceable.” But hey, that’s only basketball. In spiritual terms, humility is always transcendent.

Resources

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/season-of-too-much-sharing-for-stephen-curry-warriors/ar-BBxB1Rl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=BHEA000

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Vera Rubin: Into the dark matter

Rubin in 2009 (NASA photo)

Famed astronomer Vera Rubin’s life force has now merged back into the universal one, perhaps into the dark matter that she helped to identify.

When Rubin “found that galaxies don’t quite rotate the way they were predicted,” she suspected the presence of a different force. The universe is now thought to contain 27 percent of this “dark matter” force. Comparatively speaking, only 5 percent of the universe consists of

“normal matter.”

Rubin had numerous dark forces to contend with here on Earth. As a pioneering female astronomer, she ran up against “a number of barriers along the way.” Back then, women were not even allowed to enroll in Princeton’s graduate astronomy program.

Against these (or any) odds, Rubin’s contributions were many: During her long and vibrant career, she “examined more than 200 galaxies.”

Resources

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/vera-rubin-who-did-pioneering-work-on-dark-matter-dies/ar-BBxBtCi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Monday, December 26, 2016

Scapegoating: Alive and well in Lancaster County

Ignorance and Want (Illustration by John Leech)

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has long been popular for all the right reasons. Now it is also popular for all the wrong ones.

After the fifth-grade production of A Christmas Carol was cancelled at the Centerville Elementary School this

year, fingers began pointing. They weren’t pointing at the school administration, nor were they pointing at the First Amendment. They were instead pointing right at Jewish parents who had “asked if their child could be excused from the play.”

This child was then "harassed at school," and the family fled from town after a suggestion was made that their address be published on national media sites. The parents explained, “There’s no way we’re going to take a chance after the pizza incident [during which an assault rifle was fired at restaurant customers].”

Resources

http://wwrn.org/articles/46501/