What is Unicode? Part III
Parts I and II of this series are available here and here. The Mac portion of this post was updated with the help of friend and fellow BJU PhD grad Jon Cheek on 12/05/2019. How to Install Unicode For even more information on Unicode fonts, check out David Instone-Brewer's smashing page over at Tyndale House. But I'll tell you briefly what you can do: Windows For the necessary Windows files, get the Tyndale Unicode Font Kit and read these instructions. Then make your Text Services and Input...
That’s It! Thank You, First Things!
First Things is a Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life. It's for thoughtful people, by thoughtful people. I want to be one of those, so I read it sometimes. Here's R.R. Reno, features editor of First Things: I’m very thankful that I don’t have a television. We’re heading into the final months of the presidential election, and maybe I’ll be spared the demoralizing experience of so much stupidity conveyed with such seriousness. Amen! That last phrase perfectly summarizes my feelings...
What is Unicode? Part II
In Part I of "What is Unicode?" we learned why Unicode will help you, my target audience, type Greek and Hebrew. Now let's get more specific. When you hit the "a" key on your keyboard, your computer tells Microsoft Word, let's say, to output not "a" but "0041." Then Word checks which font you're using and supplies the character that font ties to "0041." In Arial, that's "a." But in the BibleWorks Greek font, that's alpha ("α"). So Unicode decided to give alpha it's own code number, which...
A Great Quote from Carl Henry in a 1991 Video Lecture
Carl Henry, in the second video on this page, paints a clear picture of the modernism that, he says (and I agree), co-opted the American church at the turn of the last century. He even uses a little appropriate humor: Modernism’s deepest assumption was that the scientific method of laboratory duplication and verification is the supremely reliable way of knowing. This presupposition struck at the very heart of miraculous supernaturalism, of miraculous revelation, miraculous atonement,...
1991 Videos on Evangelicalism Featuring Carl Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, John Woodbridge, D.A. Carson
Check out the top four 1991 videos on this list. I'm listening to the first video right now. Kantzer spoke negatively of some elements in evangelicalism but seems overall optimistic.