My Desktop Photo 21: Upper Laberge Village

 

Photo by Andrew Stark
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The leaves are just beginning to turn, so I’ve decided to use a fall photo on my desktop. This was taken in the village of Upper Laberge. I guess you’d call Upper Laberge a ghost town. No one lives there now, but I think it’s used occasionally as a fish camp.

Here are three photos from the Yukon Archives taken in Upper Laberge way back in 1900.

•  A Royal Mail stage stopped in front of C. D. Co. No. 2
  
•  People standing in front of C. D. Co. No. 2
• A man on the snow covered lake beside the village site

The Authoring of Sin

Last week I edited and reposted an old post examining one of the standard rebuttal phrases in theological discussion, so this week I decided to tweak and repost one of the companion posts to that one. This is a post that looks at another commonly used rebuttal phrases—an old stand-by accusation made against certain doctrines about God’s relation to sin.

What is this (supposedly) knock-out counterargument? It’s the accusation that someone’s explanation of God’s connection to the sinful acts of human beings makes God the author of sin. Often, this accusation is considered to be a whole argument in and of itself, so that once the author of sin bomb is dropped, no further comment is necessary.

But does this phrase ever actually work this way? Does this rebuttal carry any weight at all, let alone the weight of an entire argument?

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Gas Up: August 21

The price of gas stayed exactly the same here this week. It’s still $1.399 per litre. And still I have no photo.

Dorothy is paying the same this week as last, too, although her price rose temporarily during the week.

What’s your gas price report?

Update on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 9:07AM by rebecca

In Kansas, threegirldad tells us he’s paying:

$3.45, which means it’s down 12 cents since last Friday.