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 Scripture in any language without clicking or typing? Excellent! I don’t have a widescreen monitor at work, so the four panels just aren’t working for me. At home on my iMac they probably will. I went back to three, which is quite simple...
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 all, didn't He walk through the walls of the upper room where the disciples were meeting? The problem is that it never occurs to us that the wall was the ghost. Jesus could walk through the wall because He is more solid and more real...
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 a.m. I will post a post on that week’s chapter, and we’ll discuss it in the comments. To stay in the club, you have to post a comment each week! C’mon! All the Cool People Are Doing It! (Next month: Bridge...
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 expounding different themes in Lewis’ precious work, including authority, confession of sin, love of story, thorough grace, and nobility. One little point struck me just now as I read an e-mail promise I wrote several months ago:...
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 the symptoms of a hangover. Very uncomfortable. It was tried. Remember a few years ago, two or three years ago they actually paid people not to watch TV for a few months? It was in Germany, [and] in the UK. And they discovered...