Making Readers Hydroplane: a Caution for Writers
The purpose of this blog post is to give writers an illustration for something unhelpful…
Order of Operations in Exegesis and Theology
This post is my upgrade/response to a diagram I saw presented online. There is a…
ON THE READING OF OLD BOOKS
I have included below, the bulk of C.S. Lewis’s essay “On the Reading of Old…
How to Make a Monster: Three Ways to Create a Definition
You think definitions are important. I just know it. Don’t believe me? Look at the…
What Do We Mean by Classical Education?
In 2022 I began working as an administrator at a classical school in Fullerton, CA….
Seeing All of Life Through the Narrative Arc of the Bible
I wrote this devotional up this afternoon for some friends at Assembly Care Ministries. You…
The Familiar, the Comfortable, the Kitsch; the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
I bet that you and I do the following at times. We confuse the familiar,…
Three Forms of Objectivity: Impersonal, Personal, & Interpersonal
There are three ways to look at objectivity; one impersonal the other personal, the third…
More Than Meets The Eye: Eight Aphorisms
For years now I have been using a few aphorisms again and again. I think…
Podcasts I Recommend to my Christian Friends
Some of my blogposts are simply places where I can keep copies of links and…
An Eighth Deadly Sin: Oblivion.
I don’t mean to be preachy. I wanted to put into words something I find…
Stop Mistaking You’re Desires for Commitment.
People mistakenly think they are committed to things that they are in fact not committed…
A Philosophy of Education: Start Simple and Build From There.
So you need a philosophy of education? How do you craft a philosophy of education…
Three Things I Did to Start Waking Up Before 6am – Often Without an Alarm.
I woke up this morning at 4am. I got up at 4:30am. I’ve gotten out…
Why I Believe Trump Fairly Lost the Election & What Worries Me Most.
Published: January 12, 2021 Some friends have asked whether I think Trump fairly won or…
Research Suggests “Smart” People Are Better at Bending Data to Fit Their Biases
Over the last few days I’ve come across a piece of research, more than once,…
Will the Real “Critical Realism” Please Stand Up?
I am writing my dissertation on critical realism. More specifically I am putting critical realism…
What Is the Nature of Meaning and Being?
There are times during philosophical conversations, or everyday life, when one is asked to define…
Protected: Ontological Pluralism – How many ways can a thing exist?
One thing that I completely missed in my past theological education prior to attending Fuller…
“Are Human’s Worth Saving?” – Failing to Distinguish Human Value and Merit.
I copied the above image from a Facebook post someone put up in a reformed…
The Ultimate Guide to Starting Latin.
The purpose of this post is primarily to give me a place to add resources…
Theological Method and the Prioritization of Sources in Theological Work
A Model for Theological Method: Balancing the Sources and Norms of Theology (by Jesse Gentile)…
Key Ideas from George Lindbeck’s The Nature of Doctrine.
[ As I prepare for comps, I am generating a few pages of notes on…
Protected: Honest Reflectionos After Finishing Theological Coursework
At the core of these theological works, are the “hard core” the real gem…
Theology is as simple as the oceans.
Recently I post, on social media, what I thought was a clever quip by Karl…
The evidence is mounting that working on a PhD leads to mental health problems: here is some of that evidence.
Its seems that every week I come across an article about how unhealthy pursuing a…
Is your Easter pagan? Cheapened? Or beyond comprehension?
(“Peter and John running to the tomb on the morning of the Resurrection”, by Eugene…
Science, Philosophy and Religion?
Last week I wrote a short piece the for the Fuller Analytic Theology blog. These…
Why did God ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1966), by Marc Chagall There are likely several reasons, but let me…
Mainstream America: secular “legalism” and the loss of civil “grace.”
The point of this post, in a nutshell, is to draw a link between an…
Advice I’ve Gleaned From a Year With a PhD Writing Feedback Group.
For the last year, I have been participating in a group of 6 or 7…
Discovering myself in the Matrix… the other matrix.
(This is one of two posts moved from a separate site that I began blogging…
Protected: Resume
Website Design & Development
A few of the many websites I’ve built . Theology.News is a site that aggregates…
Visualizations and Diagrams
I love creating visualizations and diagrams to explain complex concepts in visual formats. Below are…
Graphic Work
Here are a few logos that I’ve created. (This was an update of a clients…