The Quotable Wife
My wife was listening to an otherwise good sermon which happened to run afoul of my dissertation's thesis. We'd talked about the issue at hand (the definition of love) many times. As we passed each other in the hall, she said with a smile... "You've ruined my ability to listen to a good sermon!"
Foolish and Unlearned Questions Avoid
When I was a summer camp counselor at a Christian camp in 1999, I once had a cabin full of younger junior high campers. One of my campers at least was only in sixth grade, and he was a bus kid. That means his parents were lost, but that the church came by every week and took him to Sunday School in a big bus full of other kids. Obviously, this kid knew very little about the Bible—only what he couldn't help learning once a week on Sunday mornings. But here he was at camp, in my cabin on the...
1 Cor 7:26
Five points to the first person to note in the comments why this juxtaposition was counter to my expectations: NIV 1Co 7:26 Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are. TNIV 1Co 7:26 Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Choral Music and Common Grace
I've now persuaded even my wife to get into LaLa.com (she's usually a bit skeptical of my technological forays). We're enjoying it very much. I wrote this in my profile description for the site: I love choral music. God created beauty, and even those who rebel against Him have been left with His image. Their ability to create incredible beauty reflects God's own creativity. So whether Tavener, Pärt, Vaughn Williams, Hillier, Rutter, Joseph Jennings, and those fantastic King's Singers...
The Level of Political Discourse in Mass-Media
The past was supposed to be better than today. I'm a conservative, aren't I? Did you know that people in America used to memorize poems and read stuff longer than a blog post? Did you know there was a day when kids' brains weren't full of Hannah Montana—or Eminem, for that matter? I always assumed these factors would create a higher level of discourse in the nation. But, if anything, political ads in 1952 were worse than today. Click that link for a fascinating site.