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Heart of the Matter: Hearing the Call of the Wild (1 Sam. 23:14-29) Chris Altrock – July 16, 2017

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American Wilderness

In 1964, in a nearly unanimous vote, the United States Congress enacted legislation to protect American wilderness.[1] The Wilderness Act was put into place to secure for present and future generations the benefits of wilderness. The United States was the first country in the world to define and designate wilderness areas through law. Through it more than 105 million acres of wilderness have been preserved so that people can hike it, hunt in it, take pictures in it, stargaze in it. Wilderness also provides clean water and air and places to see wildlife in a natural setting. It seems that we need and love wilderness.Read More »Heart of the Matter: Hearing the Call of the Wild (1 Sam. 23:14-29) Chris Altrock – July 16, 2017

Heart of the Matter: How Not to Be Shallow (1 Sam. 16:6-7) Chris Altrock – July 2, 2017

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The book Hidden Figures, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie, tells of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia.[1] Housed at NACA, the precursor to NASA, Langley was where production and experimental aircraft were developed and tested, especially during and after World Word War II. Langley helped develop the first supersonic aircraft in the U.S. Langley also participated significantly in the development and testing of the first U.S. spacecraft.

All of this work required extremely high levels of mathematics. Data from tests had to be processed by hand–much of this was before the advent of modern computers. Thus human computers or mathematicians were hired by the hundreds. They spent their days crunching all the data gathered in the lab’s wind tunnels and other tests. As the space race ensued, these human computers calculated the trajectories of the Mercury and Apollo missions as well.Read More »Heart of the Matter: How Not to Be Shallow (1 Sam. 16:6-7) Chris Altrock – July 2, 2017