Why I’m Now a Paedobaptist
I have been a committed Reformed Baptist for almost a year now–I wrote a post about the reasoning that brought me to that position on January 3, 2006. (Another blogger cited that post here.) In my post, I had written the following: First, you should know that I am approaching the issue from a Reformed, [...]
Violence
I really enjoyed this: Bill Busch has a clear image of the type of player he wants to coach. Asked which specific traits he desires most in his athletes, the Nebraska safeties coach quickly pointed to one. “Right away, the main thing I look for is violence — I look for people on the field [...]
Bowl Game Gifts
I blogged about this last year, but the football bowl games are again giving very nice gift packages to all the players in their games. You can see the list here. The Cotton Bowl (where Nebraska will face Auburn on January 1, 2007) is giving a pretty good gift package, even for not being a [...]
Change in Cash
There is an interesting comparison here on the ways in which the new posthumous Johnny Cash music video for “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” differs dramatically from the music video that Cash himself made for “Hurt.” The author argues that, while the video for “Hurt” emphasized youth’s fleetingness and foolishness, the video for “God’s Gonna [...]
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose yesterday, and I was very impressed with how the movie handled the issues of demons, scientific naturalism, and Catholicism. Certainly, I had some exceptions to the specific theology behind the exorcism (namely, the belief that demonic possession can happen to a believer as well as some specifically Catholic [...]
Template Fixed (Hopefully)
I spent a couple of hours today updating the template on this blog so that IE6, IE7, and Firefox would all be able to display the site correctly. If the blog doesn’t look right to you, please leave me a comment telling me what seems to be wrong and what browser (along with its version) [...]
Fallen Mountain Climber
If you have paid any attention to the news over the last week or so, you will know that three mountain climbers were lost in a storm. Furthermore, you probably have heard that officials already found one of the climbers dead, and that they identified him as Kelly James. What you might not know is [...]
Making the Rounds
Some things I’ve found on other blogs that you might find interesting: Matthew Smith (one of the lead singers on the Indelible Grace albums) is offering his new solo album of remade hymns, “All I Owe,” freely available for streaming download during this month–in other words, you can listen to it, but you can’t keep [...]
It's a Foggy Day in Houston
(Note: I wrote this post Thursday evening while I was still at the Houston Airport, waiting for my return flight to Omaha.) I have spent the day trying to get back to Nebraska from Alabama. Because Houston went through a particularly foggy spell, all flights into the international airport were shut down for most of [...]
An Amusing Way to Spend an Hour
My Hermeneutics Final: “Write an interpretation of the biblical passage provided below. Include in your essay, among other things, attention to genre, context, structure, and biblical theology of the passage. You are limited to one hour and no more.” The passage? Isaiah 27:12-13: 12In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt [...]
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