Mark Ward

What Is Unicode? Part III.1

If you want to use Unicode in your dissertation, let's say, but you don't want to have to go back through the whole thing yourself to change all the Greek or Hebrew over, check out this list of Unicode converters.

The Left Just Doesn’t Get Religion

Abortion has gone from an unfortunate necessity to a positive (eugenic, I suppose) good for the Left: So while I respect Palin's decision to raise Trig, that's all the respect she will get from me. I don't see eye-to-eye with her on anything else: energy, guns, sex...

Must-See Sermons – washingtonpost.com

The Washington Post has a sad article about the depths to which evangelical pastors will go to be whatever relevant happens to mean at the moment. Throughout the summer the pastor of this AG church watched the top-grossing movie of the previous week and then preached...

Jonathan Edwards on the Affections Part 3 of 3

"I think it clearly and abundantly evident that true religion lies very much in the affections," wrote Jonathan Edwards in his classic The Religious Affections (or see a solid modernization here). I'm going to post his ten supporting points for that assertion in three...

Jonathan Edwards on the Affections Part 2 of 3

"I think it clearly and abundantly evident that true religion lies very much in the affections," wrote Jonathan Edwards in his classic The Religious Affections (or see a solid modernization here). I'm going to post his ten supporting points for that assertion in three...

What is Unicode? Part I

If you type in Greek and Hebrew—or plan to or should—you need to know about Unicode. What is Unicode? Maybe the simplest answer is this: Unicode is a way to type in any human script—from Sanskrit to Greek, from Cyrillic to Hebrew—without changing the font you’re...

What is Unicode? Part III

Parts I and II of this series are available here and here. The Mac portion of this post was updated with the help of friend and fellow BJU PhD grad Jon Cheek on 12/05/2019. How to Install Unicode For even more information on Unicode fonts, check out David...

That’s It! Thank You, First Things!

First Things is a Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life. It's for thoughtful people, by thoughtful people. I want to be one of those, so I read it sometimes. Here's R.R. Reno, features editor of First Things: I’m very thankful that I don’t have a television....