The purpose of this blog post is to give writers an illustration for something unhelpful they may be doing to readers… and to encourage them not to do it. I need to clarify up front – this blog is not about poetry or about types of writing that, as a genre, are not supposed to …
Making Readers Hydroplane: a Caution for Writers Read More »
This post is my upgrade/response to a diagram I saw presented online. There is a Baptist biblical studies scholar online that has great content if you are starting out in Biblical languages, etc.. . I really appreciate his videos and would not hesitate to recommend him. I was watching a video today and he presented …
I have included below, the bulk of C.S. Lewis’s essay “On the Reading of Old Books” and have left out the latter portion about a recent translation of Athanasius’s On the Incarnation. The entire essay was originally the introduction to a new translation of On the Incarnation. Eventually, Lewis’s wonderful intro was included in God …
You think definitions are important. I just know it. Don’t believe me? Look at the knock-down-drag-out arguments in your life and you’ll discover your zeal for definitions. Why was your statement last month not technically a lie? Why is Gina a racist even though she claims not to be ? Why don’t you qualify as …
How to Make a Monster: Three Ways to Create a Definition Read More »
In 2022 I began working as an administrator at a classical school in Fullerton, CA. I’m currently undergoing a learning curve with classical education. For those unfamiliar with classical education, it is a movement that has been growing in the US since the 1970’s; its focus is often on liberal arts education (not political liberalism …
I wrote this devotional up this afternoon for some friends at Assembly Care Ministries. You might not think of the following as a “devotional” because it is closer to a Biblical Theology. However, it is just this sort thinking that I find nourishing in a devotional way). I want to recommend a practice that I …
Seeing All of Life Through the Narrative Arc of the Bible Read More »
I bet that you and I do the following at times. We confuse the familiar, the self-beneficial, the surprising for the good, the true, and the beautiful (in no particular order)? We’d love to think we don’t but I suspect we all do. I suspect I do. Familiar, novel, nostalgic, surprising, self-beneficial – these words …
The Familiar, the Comfortable, the Kitsch; the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Read More »
There are three ways to look at objectivity; one impersonal the other personal, the third interpersonal. In this post I am thinking of objectivity especially in the context of disagreement or controversy. What do we want? What we want in talk of objectivity, is to get at reality; to get at the truth of the …
Three Forms of Objectivity: Impersonal, Personal, & Interpersonal Read More »
For years now I have been using a few aphorisms again and again. I think there is often more going on beneath the surface in human behavior (nothing new here). These aphorisms help tease out some of those situations. The other day I discovered a new one. It was time to make a list. Each …
Some of my blogposts are simply places where I can keep copies of links and content, so as to point others to them. I am doing that here, but putting down a few podcasts that I have appreciated. I will build this list over time. If you think there is a super important podcast please …