Donate to Wikipedia
I admit to being somewhat cheap. If I can use an online service for free, I generally do so. I've never paid Dropbox a cent (though I've come close, and I've sent them a lot of customers). But the laborer is worthy of his hire, the Bible says, and there are a few online services that I use so regularly that I have decided to give them back a little something, lest they go away forever. LastPass is one. I've also given a little money to WordPress plugin developers, a LightRoom plugin developer,...
Review: Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book for pastors (I'm sort of a pastor). I really did. It's an excellent book. But it gets three stars because, searching my heart of hearts, I can't honestly say—as Goodreads requires for four stars—that I "really liked" it. I also can't call it "amazing" (five stars). I felt like Tripp kept saying the same thing over and over. That thing was a good thing. A very...
Randy Leedy on Greek Pedagogy
Logos Bible Software has put out a new first-year Greek/Hebrew course that is apparently selling like hotcakes and promises to eliminate memorization of vocab and paradigms and focus immediately on language use in exegesis and sermon prep. Rod Decker's most recent blog post takes issue with the marketing copy attached to the new program. I share Dr. Decker's skepticism about any course of Greek study which promises to be "quick and easy," though I think it better not to be skeptical as he is...
I’ve Always Thought the Same About Nick Kristof
Check out Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner on the fair-minded liberal Nick Kristof, and don't miss this special quote from some other guy at the end: People have often said that politics has been the religion of the 20th century, and I think there’s a lot to that. In the same way that people get attached to a religion, they get attached to a political party. And once you’re part of it, you don’t want to hear someone talking about the horrible things that your religion or your party did in the...