After a while, reading and writing disclaimers about theological books gets to be a real annoyance. “Of course, I don’t agree with everything this book says, but I still think it’s worth a read.” “Naturally, I take exception to some of this writer’s assertions.” “I...
Mark Ward
Five Steps to Pleasure
I listened to Marvin Olasky interview Stanley Fish, in part about his new book, How to Write a Sentence. Stanley Fish cited a great sentence in this piece by John Updike, and further called that piece the greatest sport essay in history—if my memory serves. I saved...
Wise Advice On The Balance Between Submission to Leaders and Personal Responsibility
The church must balance analytical independence (1 Thess. 5:21) with submissiveness to its leaders (1 Thess. 5:13; Heb. 13:7, 17; Gal. 1:8–9). We “obey [our] leaders” and we “test everything.” Yet we test humbly, reticent to question pastors who have been called by...
Get Motivated!
All the Cool People from another sector of American reality, a much bigger sector than mine, are coming to my town. Plenty of dogs and ponies will make an appearance in the show. But I am more interested in the promised goods. I’m told that if I come, I will get...
How to Clear Up Space in Your Gmail Inbox
I was up to 87% full in Gmail, but there was no way I was going to search for every e-mail that had an attachment (type “has:attachment” in the search box), because I couldn’t sort by size. So I could spend hours deleting e-mails and gain only 1% back. I did search...
ACPADI Book Club
Would you like to join the All the Cool People Are Doing It (ACPADI) Book Club? Our subtitular name is the Blogape Book Consortium (BBC) if you don’t like ACPADI. There are only two members so far, but we are willing to grant that more cool people exist, and we have...
Same Old Fish
Marvin Olasky asks Stanley Fish intelligent questions. Check out the audio, too.
Four American Cultural Assumptions Revealed
When we address our culture, we have the benefit of lifelong immersion in it. But alas, that blessing is also a curse, for like fish in water, we cannot see the medium in which we swim. It is hardest to see what is always before our eyes, hardest to remark on values...
American Israelism
I recently stumbled across a Christian radio station broadcasting on the Internet. Its origin is the far-right, King-James-Only sector of Protestant (make that Baptist—they’ve forgotten that they’re Protestants) fundamentalism. A perky choir was singing the following:...
The FREE (!) Dissertation-Writing Service that I Used
There is a great dissertation-writing service online that is completely FREE! You have to add appropriate footnotes, and it takes a while to produce a finished document of 300 pages, but with this helpful tool you, too, can get a Ph.D. It was created for the art world...