Wandering Elder

Let's change gears for a post. Let's talk about comics. I just finished watching the Netflix series "The Defenders" based on the Marvel Comic series (that should be plural, I suppose!).  It wasn't bad.  It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. Here's why it wasn't bad.  It did a good job at pulling the characters together in a short amount of time and resolving the story line in a short amount of time as well.  In some respects, the series was the vehicle for the next seasons of Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones (and probably Iron Fist, but I will get to that in a minute).  It pulled the stories of these heroes together and provided them with direct knowledge of each other and a (mostly) willingness to work together. The Defenders is a tough comic to bring to the screen, large or small.  That's because the more recent iterations of The Defenders focuses on the idea that it is a non-team, but a name that applies to a particular group who...

The Doppler Effect is this: the change in frequency of a sound (or other event) for an observer based on the movement of either the observer or the source.  Most commonly, this is heard when a vehicle with a siren is heard approaching, beside, passing and receding. It is a phenomenon we all experience, and I think it is an important illustration.  Because the sound and the observer or, I suppose, listener, do not actually change.  Just the change of sound or observation based on position.  But that position changes how we interpret the sound: is it close?  Is it moving away from me?  Is it a threat?  Do I need to move? etc. etc. As someone who has driven a fire engine, I know that the siren sounds the same from start to finish.  But that doesn't mean it sounds the same to everyone else as we encounter them. The same is true for theology.  I have found that, especially as I re-read some old books, that the words on the page haven't chang...