Logos Survey
Logos' revamped survey is asking users if they have Kindles. That can only mean that they're thinking of opening up a way for Logos content to be used on portable reading devices, something I've been pestering Phil Gons about for a while! Despite respected naysayers, I love my Kindle. I'm reading several books and articles on it right now, all but one of which were free: Jane Eyre A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church Open Letter to Google A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of...
The iPod Touch, Neil Postman, and Mount Calvary Baptist Church
A friend and fellow iPod Touch owner sent me Tim Challies' "Don't Take Your iPod to Church" a few days ago and asked me what I thought. It just so happens that I do take my iPod Touch to church and take voluminous sermon notes on it, but that friend made some good points spurred by Challies' post: iPod instead of Bible feels less formal/deliberate to me. iPod seems like it could be a distraction to others around me. I can't take notes as well on an iPod. iPod gives me a feeling of "get where...
Pogue on Religion
Ever since I read this line a few weeks ago from my favorite tech reviewer, David Pogue, it has struck me as the solution to the Mac vs. PC debate: There are two kinds of people: those who value elegance, simplicity and beauty, and those who don’t. You’ll never convince either group to change their minds; it’s like a religious war.[From NYTimes.com] Aesthetics is for me indeed a religious category, because God made beauty and the capacity to enjoy it. (Note: I am not saying that PC users are...
20 Years After Tiananmen
Some months ago, my wife and I watched the fascinating PBS documentary mentioned in this fascinating article, and now there's a fascinating, never-before-seen, addition to the story. On this twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, take Solomon's advice and visit the house of mourning by following those links.
49 million to 5
Do not tell anyone that I read an article by Ann Coulter in WorldNetDaily. Pretend that this is from a responsible writer and news source. (I'm not even going to link to it!) But the figures, I would have to think, are accurate. And the issue is important: a major theme in Scripture is God's tendency to take the side of the oppressed. In a country with approximately 150 million pro-lifers, five abortionists have been killed since Roe v. Wade. In that same 36 years, more than 49 million babies...