Here’s an interesting quote from Stealing Jesus: For some people “are atheists because of a higher implicit theism than that professed by believers. They reject God because His name has been taken in vain, and they are unable to distinguish between His holiness and its profanation.” In other words, they rebel, both intellectually and morally, [...]

According to Wikipedia “Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l’art du déplacement [1] (English: the art of moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.” You’ve seen these guys jumping around like monkeys/Spiderman and in case you still don’t know what [...]

Yesterday in my reader I saw a link to a new(ish) book edited and written in part by John MacArthur called Thinking Biblically It caused me to tweet “If you want to “think Biblically” (whatever that means) why would you read John MacArthur’s book about it and not just read the Bible?” Now that was [...]

I cast some thoughts about friendship here, mostly about Christians limiting their friendships. Today I’d like to noodle on social media and “friending”. I tweeted a couple of questions over the weekend: What does being a friend mean to you? What does it take for you to call someone your friend? How has social media [...]

I asked a question on Twitter last week, the gist of which was, “why do I only see praise for podcast novels in the public stream. It generated quite a brisk conversation. I decided to create an audio response to the feedback. I hope you enjoy it! Shows/People referenced: Braindouche Zach Ricks Brand Gamblin Dan [...]

Dan Sawyer answered my opening volley in our debate on science and religion in a post titled A Skin-Deep Territory Distinction. He makes some good points regarding areas where science and religion touch, overlap and even (as he says) aim for the same territory. For the most part I don’t think I can really disagree [...]

Periodically (weekly I believe) there’s a chat on Twitter about science fiction called appropriately enough, SciFiChat. The whole think is conducted by making sure that everyone involved includes the hashtag #scifichat in their tweets. This ensures that everyone can see what’s being said even if you don’t follow everyone involved. You can see most, if [...]

So in a fit of… something last night I tweeted “Christians spend WAY too much time on “dos and don’ts”.” Nothing prompted it in particular. I’d like to blame the Holy Spirit for it, but he/she/it couldn’t be reached for comment. I suspect that part of the Trinity just sits back and looks at my [...]

A post from the Pugnacious Irishman and some posts by http://www.stufffundieslike.com/ on Facebook made me go digging for this post. I don’t ordinarily repost old content but I’m rather fond of this one. Communicate, when necessary use words. Just make sure that you choose them and the order you put them in, carefully. This post [...]

“God loves a cheerful giver” is one of those aphorisms that we often hear, but unlike some of them (“God helps those that help themselves.” for instance) this one is actually in the Bible. Second Corinthians chapter nine, verse seven says “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not [...]