I am going to see The Da Vinci Code (TDVC) movie as soon as it comes out and I’m able. I am a sincere Christ-follower (an Evangelical Christian) and I don’t believe nearly any of the historical foundation for the story. You may ask, why would you go to this movie then – I thought [...]
There are not many books that I would say are my most-recommended, and indeed ostensibly there should be only one. Well, right now – for my Christ-following readers – the next book you read needs to be the Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Really… not kidding… read the friggin’ [...]
Update: It’s been two years since I wrote this, and in light of how much the price of oil is dominating the news lately, I think I need to revisit this… soon. Talk of gas prices is everywhere. It’s actually beginning to annoy me. Is the media so hard on their luck for a good [...]
A recent article in Wired Magazine (Geekonomics, April 06) asks “What if everything in the world were free?” At first the brief mental dream of this utopia may be alluring, but the inevitable consequences would surely be societal disaster. But why? Quite simply, as long as we’re human we’ll act like humans. At first listen [...]
Some say it of kindergarten or nursery school or whatever (you’ve seen the posters)… I say it of Tolkien. Yes, everything I ever needed to know I learned from The Lord of the Rings. [well, almost] I learned that bands of elves, half-lings, dwarves, wizards, rangers, and warriors aren’t just for Dungeons & Dragons (a [...]
Sit back… this may get preachy! For my non-Christian readers, this could go totally over your head, yet it may be very pertinent to you where you are in your spiritual journey. For my Christian readers, just know that I prayerfully ruminated on this for weeks before deciding to blog it. I encourage all to [...]
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but who exactly is this mythical “they” entity anyway? Things like art and music – so easily perverted into the ethereal chaos of the subjective – can really cause engineers like me to seg fault (that’s basically a metaphorical parallel to an intellectual seizure). But [...]
UPDATE: The text of the quoted letter below has been changed and resubmitted due to insight gathered in post comments. The original letter text is here. ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s an article by Jay Mathews of The Washington Post that appeared in the February 24, 2006, Times Union. He makes the case better than I can… [...]
Okay, I may have really done it good this time. I just fired off a letter to the editor of the Albany Times Union in response to this piece written by Kate Gurnett. I proofed it as much as was safe in the short period I had to click [Send] before I changed my mind. [...]
Yesterday afternoon I had a moment… I was sitting on the couch enjoying a Chardonnay and a Lean Pocket while watching news clips of shoppers trampling themselves to finish their Christmas shopping before noon… and I’m thinking to myself that all common sense has gone to pot. Here these people are pushing each other to [...]
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
