This time around, I have elected to replenish my list of current titles with a lot of history spanning the past millennium from the Crusades to the present. More
Nearly A Decade Working in the Oil and Gas Industry
The highest wages and the greatest uncertainty are in drilling, but the guys who operate the wells and pipelines will still have jobs when drilling periodically tapers off.More
Series Review: ‘The Asian Saga’ by James Clavell
Spanning 1600 to 1979, and set in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Iran, the stories all add up to one thing – the beauty and horror of what happens when East meets West.More
Do Not Be Anxious About Anything
It is easy to find our understanding taxed. What has recently been, what is now, and what may soon happen – all is complicated and disputed and controversial. More
Carl R. Trueman and The Failure of Evangelical Elites
And here we come to the crux of the divide between respectable establishment type evangelical Christians and those who are cast into the outer darkness as deplorables. More
Book Review: ‘Bondage of the Will’ by Martin Luther
I am struck by the utter lack of concern that father of Protestantism showed for what we would consider good manners in contending for what he held to be good doctrine.More
Flying Dinosaurs and What Counts As Imposing
The kinds of comments left thus far on the last episode are the whole of atheism – condescending, and ridiculing and oversimplifications, strawmen, and aspersions.More
Preparing Our Children to Defend Against Atheism
There are two kinds of atheism. The first scientific, the latter moral. Both kinds share a common thread, man sitting in judgment over whether God is in the right.More
Topical Exposition
Topical or expository – which type of preaching is better? This was among the chief foci of discussion this past week in one of the private message groups I am a part of.More
Awkward Silence
What goes into making silence awkward sometimes? It seems to me as though some of us try too hard to impress, and some of us try too hard to not offend.More