Author's posts
Jan 31
Podcast update
Progress on the upcoming podcast is moving forward, albeit slowly. I have had to order a USB headset, as my Mac is one of the few models to ship since 1984 without a microphone jack. I have also setup the feed and gotten it listed on iTunes. However, I quickly found out that The MadCast …
Jan 29
“Sorry to burst your pig bladder!”
The best possible closer to an already interesting article at NPR on the surprising success of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography, published last year.
Jan 21
Supercalawhatever
“Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious” It takes a bold lyricist to admit when his song is obnoxious in the very lyrics of said song.
Jan 09
Quotable: John Piper on William Mackenzie
“…a lover of books and a lover of people. That’s an unusual combination, you know. Most people who are bookish don’t like people–they just tolerate them.”
Dec 29
Quotable: Gavin Ortlund
“Promise is empty without fulfillment; but fulfillment is meaningless without promise.” From his excellent article on the Bible here via Challies.com
Dec 23
Quotable: Edmund Clowney
“Certainly Satan does not find it necessary to offer all the kingdoms of the world to the average sinner. He can buy most sinners for small change.”
Nov 24
Quotable: C.S. Lewis on Bultmann et al
“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.” –from Lewis’s Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
Nov 17
There’s Things You Don’t Know
A hilarious excerpt from M.D. McMullin’s visit to Walmart: Recently, I had the privilege of overhearing a conversation in the shoe aisles. I was looking at flip flops and couldn’t help but catch the conversation in the next aisle over. Woman A: We done talked about this before we got here and I said “NO.” …
