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  • "The Widow's Might" (Sermon on Mark 12:38-44)

    11/08/2009 11:33:59 AM PST · by Charles Henrickson · 6 replies · 656+ views
    Charles Henrickson's blog at the Wittenberg Trail ^ | November 8, 2009 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “The Widow’s Might” (Mark 12:38-44) Our text today is the story usually known as “The Widow’s Mite.” It’s the story of a poor widow who goes to the temple and puts into the offering box two “small copper coins,” as our translation has it. But the King James Version had as the equivalent for “small copper coins” the old English word “mites”--she put in two mites. Thus the familiar phrase, “The Widow’s Mite,” m-i-t-e. But today I want to talk to you also about “The Widow’s Might,” m-i-g-h-t. For this story tells us as much about the widow’s might, her...
  • Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years

    01/24/2008 7:37:16 AM PST · by Momaw Nadon · 22 replies · 482+ views
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Sunday, January 20, 2008 | Jasper Copping
    Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned. Whole colonies of bees are already being wiped out, with current methods of pest control unable to stop the problem. The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) said that if the crisis continued, honeybees would disappear completely from Britain by 2018, causing "calamitous" economic and environmental problems. It called on the Government to restart shelved research programmes and to fund new ones to try to save the insects. Tim Lovett, the association's president, said: "The situation has become insupportable and...
  • Dung-eating mites throw light on Inca civilisation

    03/26/2007 3:23:03 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 32 replies · 1,063+ views
    The Times ^ | 03/26/07 | Mark Henderson,
    Dung-eating mites throw light on Inca civilisation Mark Henderson, Science Editor Mites that eat llama dung are providing scientists with critical new clues to the rise and fall of the Inca empire and the civilisations that preceded it. The soil invertebrates are allowing researchers to trace the growth and decline of the peoples of the Andes several centuries before the Spanish conquest in 1532 brought written records to the region for the first time. The evidence gleaned from fossilised mites, preserved in sediments at a lake about 50km (30 miles) from the Inca capital of Cuzco, has shown how the...