It’s hard to write a brief post on this chapter! Don’t feel you have to read the whole summary; it’s here for your use and mine both now and in the future. Just pick out what interests you in the book, scan my post to see if I added anything, and make a comment....
Mark Ward
BJU Campus Store Review—God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible, Vaughan Roberts
This review was written for the BJU Campus Store blog. The Campus Store knows that a lot of people buy books online, so it is attempting to provide another service: reliable recommendations from people who (are supposed to) know what they’re talking about. The Bible...
Three Effects of New Technologies, From Someone Who Was Both More and Less Truly Oracular Than McLuhan
Neil Postman was more oracular than Marshall McLuhan because his predictions, in my limited experience, came true more spectacularly. Postman was less oracular than McLuhan because his predictions made sense to normal people. One of Postman’s predictions/descriptions...
McLuhan Quote 3
Today, a kind of quote from McLuhan which gives rise to the kind of article Alan Jacobs just wrote at The New Atlantis. Some of McLuhan’s pronouncements are so confidently oracular and yet so nonsensical that you sort of scratch your head and say, “I guess he’s just...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 1, Chapter 1: “What Is a Worldview?”
In these posts I’m not going to try to repeat what Wolters said—you just read that—but to try to pick out key ideas and explain and defend (or critique!) them. I’m going to say what I would say if the ACPADI Book Club/Βλογάπη Book Consortium were meeting in my living...
Nine Initial Impressions of BibleWorks 9
I received BibleWorks 9 at lunch today, and I installed it on my work computer as soon as I returned to the office. Here are my 9 initial impressions: I really do like that “Use” tab. I think I will, uh, use it quite a bit. Searching for a given word in all of...
An Insight from C.S. Lewis through Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson: In another of Lewis's books, The Great Divorce, he describes heaven as a place of real solidity and real color compared to the shadowy ghost world down below. We sometimes think that when Jesus rose from the dead, He turned into a kind of ghost. After...
ACPADI Book Club Begins This Week!
Remember, members, the ACPADI Book Club begins yesterday! We’re reading the first chapter—"What is a Worldview"—in Creation Regained. It’s only 12 pages. You can do it. We’ll read one chapter each week during the month of August. Every Friday morning at 6...
Narnian Nobility
I’m reviewing a great little book that fellow Narnians would, I’m sure, enjoy as much as I do: Doug Wilson’s What I Learned in Narnia. Not all moralizing is bad: Wilson artfully reveals the morals in various pericopes of the Narnia septet. He provides seven chapters...
McLuhan Quote 2
Marshall McLuhan in 1976: Interviewer: What would happen if you could shut off television for 30 days in the entire United States of America? McLuhan: It would be a kind of hangover effect, because it’s a very addictive medium. You take it away and people develop all...