Craig Bartholomew offers some insightful comments on wisdom in Proverbs: There are no areas of life that wisdom does not reflect upon: leadership and royalty, wealth and poverty, economics and law, and justice, marriage, and developing sexuality—they are all here,...
Mark Ward
Good Reads
I’m becoming a big fan of GoodReads. It’s a social network built around one of my major interests—reading—instead of around… around… Oh, bother. What is Facebook built around?! Cute toddler antics, I guess—or at least that’s what my friends are most interested in...
Review: Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch My rating: 4 of 5 stars I went to a liberal arts school. Why did I bother? Why did I bother learning the history of art or music? Why not just learn what it takes to make money now? Andy Crouch answers...
Must-See Video on the ESV Translation Committee
The Internet lets the whole world into doors that are otherwise of necessity locked. Check out this video of the ESV translators arguing (courteously but firmly) over the rendering of δούλος in 1 Cor 7. Incidentally, somebody paid to have all those busy scholars flown...
BJU Press CHART Seminar on a Christian View of Literature
Just got this in the mail! Looks sort of cool, I guess! Feel free to join in! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us for November's online seminar: Shaping a Biblical Worldview Through the Study of Literature Presenter: Mark Ward...
I Once Was Deaf but Now I Hear
I watched the video above (can’t remember whom to HT!), and I know this is old news for many already… I noticed that the woman’s speech did not sound like that of profoundly deaf people I’d heard; it was quite clear. I did not detect any accent or slurring at all. And...
How to Kern
My inner typography nerd was thrilled to discover this very cool website. If you don't know what kerning is or why it matters, check it out. If you do, see if you can beat my top score of 91… HT: Drew Fields
Toggl
Toggl is the first new “app” I’ve added to my daily workflow in a long time, and I want to give it a little plug. My workplace requires me to log my time so that they know how much money they’re spending on various projects. I found a great way to do that with Toggl....
Review: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dickens' deep insight in this book is not what I would call "Christian" (though it is consistent with Christianity) but "human." He sees quite clearly what anyone with eyes should be able to see, whether...
Blog Drought
Interesting. Over the course of four years, this blog has rarely dried up for very long. Why did it do so in the last week? Apparently, I have finite writing energies, and those energies are finally being put to use. Even my dissertation failed to spend them all! But...