Stuff in my profile-history

If you look back a bit you'll see the first installment where I blog on the stuff I've listed in my profile. Now it's time for history.

I am interested in history for a few reasons--among them is agreement with the warning that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
This can be especially true in Church history. There are many errors and heresies that jsut keep getting recycled because we don't know out Church history.

I also enjoy the stories and the drama we find there.

I can enjoy a story that takes liberties with history depending on how it's done.
If it takes itself too seriously and goes way off base--that is distracting.
But if done for fun or as a fantasy story it can work.

But overall we need demarcation between what is intended as real history and what is not. The most annoying deviations from history for me are the ones where history is altered to make it more palatable today or to promote a contemporary issue. Leave it alone--tell a new story.

As long as history isn't presented as merely a list of dates and events I will probably be interested in it.

The Return of LOTW

Here are the new Links of the Whenever (whenever I post them--formerly Links of the Week)

First up-
Christian Classics Ethereal Library. You may be aware of this already, maybe not. It's a compilation of Christian Writings across centuries of Church history. It's useful for research, learning, and devotion. There's both good and bad here-but mostly good. The not-so-good and bad is interesting from the historical viewpoint. It shows we keep making the same errors, giving credence to the saying that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.

Second up-
Logoserver. I've already expressed my interest in sports logos, here's a site that has a large number of new, old and in between logos. The quality isn't always great, but it shows a lot of logos and also shows the graphic development of logos over the years (for example, many late 60's to early 70's logos are obvious to guess when they were designed). It also shows the logo characteristcs of various sports-for example:
1)Baseball & Basketball logo designers seem more prone to gratuitous use of baseballs and basketballs in their logos than hockey logo designers feel compelled to throw in a puck.
2)Roller Hockey logos tend to be garish and/or tacky.

It's not the necessarily the best logo site out there--but it is probably the most exhaustive.

LOTW (Links of the Whenever)

It really has been "Whenever" since the last LOTW.

Well then let's get to them then-

First up-
"The Instigator" is cartoonist Charlie Teljeur.
He does some rather humorous cartoons based on hockey and especially the NHL.
I don't always agree with his point of view or his sense of humour, but usually I get a good laugh out of his work.
The link will bring up his latest cartoon, and there are links on that page to his archived work.
The Instigator

Then-
I like reading history-especially Church history. The Church Fathers are good reading for a variety of reasons. Here's one of my favorite writings by a Church Father. The link is part of
CCEL, which is an excellent site for older writings.
(Check it out as well.)
This is The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.
More information on Clement of Rome can be found on Wikipedia, and other sites. But I would advise caution when reading about Clement, as Roman Catholic Tradition considers Clement the fourth Pope. He was bishop of Rome, but the papacy did not yet exist.