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Static Typing: a Personal Journey

December 21, 2017
Last February my company sent me to the Colorado School of Mines, my alma mater, to recruit computer science grads. Many of my former classmates were there as well, and I started chatting with a guy who was telling me about his job where he wrote…
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Long Before Luther [A Review]

November 21, 2017
"Was the Reformation doctrine of justification by faith alone an invention or a recovery?" Though Protestants might easily dismiss that question, it would be foolish to do so. The Roman Church asserts that this doctrine that is so central to…
Tags: busenitzluthermasters seminarymedieval theologymoody presspatristicsreview

Humble Roots [A review]

November 20, 2016
There have been (at least) two trends in my life over the past few years: first, I have grown rather weary of the endless parade of devotional books marching forth from evangelical printing presses, and second I have felt more and more of a desire to…
Tags: booksdevotional literaturegardeninghannah andersonhumble rootsmoody pressreviewvine ripened

Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age [A Review]

October 10, 2016
Why do greater certainty and more control only heighten our fear for what remains outside our control-especially if the possibilities are so improbable? -Bob Cutillo, MD It is a curious thing that health care, whose very existence was once solely…
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Punderdome [A Review]

August 4, 2016
I consider myself something of a connoisseur of puns. A pundit, you might say. A pun at its essence is simply a play on words, but a good pun exhibits draws an intersection between two otherwise unrelated conceptual fields in one word or phrase. A…
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Home Cooked [A Review]

May 21, 2016
Cooking good food is one of those things we just do not seem to have time for these days. Most folks subsist on a combination of microwaved dinners, takeout, or dine-in. When we do cook, it's usually a matter of popping open boxes from the pantry or…
Tags: 10 speed pressanya fernaldbook reviewcookbookfoodhome cookedrecipes

The Water-Saving Garden [A Review]

March 21, 2016
When my wife and I got married, we thought we'd try our hand at gardening-the fruits of our labor that summer were pitiful, but the joy of growing our own food carried us on. It's a wonderful feeling to grow so much food for free, but the thing is…
Tags: book reviewclimate changegardeningpam penicksustainable livingwater saving garden

Reading, Reflecting, Failing, Succeeding

December 24, 2015
One hundred books. That was my new year's resolution last January: to read one hundred books during 2015. I tend to read a lot of books in general, so that number (though it was definitely a stretch goal) seemed attainable. It is the beginning of…
Tags: frank watersjohn framereadingreading goalssong of albionsovereigntystephen lawheadsystematic theologythe man who killed the deer

The Imperfect Pastor [A Book Review]

September 26, 2015
Post-apocalyptic movies always begin the same way. The scene opens upon the heels of catastrophe-all of humanity's best laid plans have quite literally exploded around us, and the few survivors are left to pull together what remains and eke out some…
Tags: book reviewimperfect pastorministrypastoral theologyzack eswine
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