Layton Talbert on Janet Mefferd Show
Click through, and starting around 20 minutes, you'll hear my respected professor and fellow church member, Layton Talbert, discuss divine providence with Janet Mefferd.
Mac Apps I Can’t Live Without
I use many of the apps that comes with OS X, such as Calendar (I have it hooked into a Google Calendar I share with my wife), Reminders, Messages, and Notes. Although other apps may be more full-featured, they're not integrated with Siri and not as simple to use. I find it best, generally speaking, to live in the ecosystem as intended by Apple. It's great to be able to tell my phone, "Remind me tomorrow at 10 to send an invoice to John Doe." It's great to be able to text and message (they're...
What Makes a Word “Real”?
This video is fantastic. I love the moment when she asks, "Who regularly refers to a dictionary either in print or online?" Almost every hand in the audience goes up. Then she asks, "Who has ever looked to find out the editor of a dictionary?" A lot fewer hands. Mine definitely went up. I've even blogged about usage panels. And I still say, like, again, that working to "get" the English language and to understand language change will save you from a lot of silly mistakes in your...
Best Ting Deal I’ve Seen
Ting is offering it's best deal ever—I know, because I've had Ting from its earliest days. Get $100 credit on a phone or $100 off service by clicking this referral link—and I get $50 of service credit. Plus, Ting has the best website and the best customer service with real people who speak English. Like American English. Our Ting bill for two iPhones, both purchased used for under $200, has averaged $54.01 over almost two years. (And with a little more self-discipline we could've...
When Scholarly Arguments about Homosexuality Are Inaccessible
No matter what field of study you name, there will be people in it who are arguing over your head—even if it's your own field of study, the one you trained in. There are countless topics in the broad field of biblical studies that I am not qualified to say much if anything about: Hebrew calques from Ugaritic (I think they exist), Monothelite Christology (it's either bad or good, can't remember, but I know where to look it up), and anything in Aramaic (it uses the same letters as...