Most of the time you say something, you want to be understood. So you use the linguistic and other signs—words, gestures, facial expressions—that you know by long experience to be shared by others in your culture. Even when you (deceitfully) purpose to be...
A Great Quote from Ken Myers, OR, An Ironic Quote to Put on a Blog, I Suppose, But Hopefully It Will Lead You To Read the Book
"Our frenetic search for novelty is, says Daniel J. Boorstin, one of the signs that we demand 'more than the world can give us.'" (p. 66)
Jesus Among Other Gods
I was thrilled and deeply encouraged by this testimony—and it is full of great sermon illustrations. HT: Gerald McDermott
Great Article Ya Gotta Read It
If you've been wanting a good summation of the hot issue of Christian political involvement, look no further. I read this article a little while back when it came out, and when just now I ran across a few quotes I saved from it, I knew I had to recommend it to you and...
Quick Thought on Social Media
I’ve been on Facebook pretty much since it became available to me. I tried MySpace briefly. I have an obligatory Google Plus account. But the one piece of social media I most enjoy is Goodreads. Here’s why: in the world of book reading, things don’t happen fast. Even...
Spotify: Not Sharpest Knife in Drawer, But Close
This review was supplied by little Mikey Wood, a ten-year-old technology reviewer I have hired to do kid-appropriate reviews of new tech. Mikey is a distant cousin of Rodney Trotter, of Reformation 21 fame. I like Spotify. It is good. It's kind of weird, though,...
Huffington Post on Bob Jones University
Very interesting. More generous and accurate than I have been led to expect over the years. Non-Christian people in the U.S. have a tough time understanding and accepting that conservative Christians, on the whole, don't look to politics for saviors as much as they...
BJU Press CHART Webinar on a Christian Worldview of Literature
Yesterday I gave a live BJU Press webinar from my home office to some of the best listeners anyone could ask for. Both of them seemed, as best I could tell, engaged and interested—at least judging by the fact that they stayed till the end. I'm told that we get a lot...
It Doesn’t Get Much Better than This
It doesn't get much better than this... ...except that my alma mater's own Warren Cook did it better in 1998 (?) on one of the only two cassette tapes I still treasure. I don't know how he did it—some passages aren't even as clear as those of the great choir (Canada's...
Beautiful Royal Wedding Music, Contemporary Choral
I very much enjoyed this part of the wedding.