Building a Timeless House in an Instant Age by Brent Hull My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this because my wife and I are about to buy our third house and I wanted wisdom. Our second house, it turns out, was very well made in 1948. We already miss it and we haven't yet...
Mark Ward
Never Knowing Where We’re Going We Can Never Go Astray
Read this while poking around the Internet for philosopher Richard Rorty's obituary: Michael Williams, philosophy department chairman at Johns Hopkins University, said Dr. Rorty, one of his mentors, "taught the lesson there are no fixed and permanent foundations for...
Who Wrote the Formula?
So one member of a lesbian couple decides she needs a man, and her partner agrees to bring one into the relationship. ABC News has the story. They are now polyamorists, the parents of two babies, and crusaders in the cause of getting their sexual choices and family...
Climate Change and Epistemology
Global climate change is probably my favorite current illustration for the role authority plays in epistemology, and this EconTalk discussion with Matt Ridley explores this very interplay in an interesting and accessible way. Ridley is a "lukewarmer," not a full...
Wards Moving to Washington State
The Ward family is moving to Washington state so I can work for Logos Bible Software (now called the Faithlife Corporation) as a writer and theological/exegetical instructor—and so we can help our church's supported church-planting missionaries, Tom and Naomi Parr in...
Great Insight on Love
A great insight on love from my friend, and fellow Jonathan Edwards dissertator, Ryan Martin: Love in popular culture could never be cultivated, or else it would be inauthentic. Inauthenticity is adding any kind of layer to what is most natural and “free” (cf. 2 Pet...
Augustine on Inerrancy
I searched for probably two hours for a fantastic Augustine quote I simply cannot believe I didn't save or blog already. I could not find it anywhere, and I'm pretty OCD with my notes and files. So I resorted to Quora. Thank you, Quora! I asked, St. Augustine once...
Listen to YouTube
I don't have time to watch YouTube videos that exceed 8 minutes in length. But there are plenty of lectures and sermons on YouTube that I'd like to listen to that I don't need to watch to benefit from. For the last several months I've been using listentoyoutube.com to...
My New Favorite Choral Group
Voces8 blows me away. So smooth. I've been listening to their classical albums on repeat for weeks as I write (their early pop stuff is kind of silly), and Rachmaninoff is a perfect way to show off their skill:
The Grand Narrative of Scientism
From Oxford historian of science Peter Harrison's (so-far excellent and fascinating) The Territories of Science and Religion: The history of science, on one very common understanding, has three distinct stages. Science is said to have had its origins in Greek...