The news about Voyager 1 passing Ultima Thule is fascinating. It’s beyond my capacity to understand the ‘how’ of operating such an aircraft to pass precisely that point. I recall a hymn that might be familiar to some, it has ‘earth’ in its title, first word: Earth, Rejoice, our Lord is King!. The words in this hymn are probably rather ancient, or at least the style, e.g. ‘sing ye in triumphant strains’ which probably means something – you people sing about the Lord’s superlative triumphant, or the sing about it superlatively… The hymn speaks of comfort, God is comfort, and […]
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