Star Wars Philosophy Melange
Obi-Wan Kenobi delivers a line in the final Star Wars movie (III) which has achieved some level of fame. It appears 8,270 times on the Web, including as the name of a blog. Anakin has just informed him, "You're either with me, or you're my enemy!" Obi-Wan replies with that now-famous line: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes!" I love Anakin's reply. He stops, cocks his head, smirks, and says, "Obi-Wan, are you absolutely sure?" Ok, no, he didn't really say that. I think that was Ravi Zacharias and...
So You Got a New iPod Touch
I am dedicating this post to DN and all of the faithful BJU Wellness Program devotees who won iPod Touches and now—congratulations—have them in hand! May the Lord help you to use this helpful tool to His glory!I got a free iPod Touch with my iMac. I had had my eye on it for a while because I needed a Palm replacement—after using a Palm IIIxe through seven years of grad school. Here are the applications I have installed right now (I've put especially useful ones in bold in the list below): Air...
lala.com
lala.com—you've got to check it out. I just added to my playlist a huge number of Chanticleer and King's Singers tracks, most of which I've never been able to listen to in entirety. I win, because I get to listen to some excellent choral music. lala wins because I may just buy some of these tracks now that I've been able to listen to them. I can "buy" a whole online CD for $1.00. I can't take it with me, but it will be wherever the web is. What a great way to find and try new choral music!...
I Did It: I Bought an ESV Study Bible
I'm afraid the hype proved too much for me, and I succumbed. I bought an ESV Study Bible. I got the Brown TruTone for $48 at my church's bookstore. I used the rest of my birthday money. It literally hurt my back in church yesterday because, at almost 2,800 pages, it's practically a stone tablet. But it's an impressive piece of planning, typography, scholarship, devotion, illustration, printing, design, and, yes, viral Internet hysteria. On my first major read in the thing I found I liked the...
The Catholic Catechism on Papal Infallibility
This is what the Catholic church claims: In order to preserve the Church in the purity of the faith handed on by the apostles, Christ who is the Truth willed to confer on her a share in his own infallibility. By a "supernatural sense of faith" the People of God, under the guidance of the Church's living Magisterium, "unfailingly adheres to this faith." The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of...