Ben Makuh

Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals [a review]

December 19, 2019

A fantastic case for the benefit of theological retrieval paired with four demonstrations of what it looks like. Recommended.

Tags: reviewtheologyevangelicalismhistory

Creating Problems with Software Solutions

October 3, 2019

Software companies should have a healthy fear that their programmed panaceas might make the world a strictly worse place to be.

Tags: aiappsethicsprogrammingreflectionsoftware

Against God and Nature [a review]

September 24, 2019

Sin is one of those tricky words that we suppose we have a grasp of, but upon closer inspection turns out to be a bit more slippery to talk about than we first imagined. Though we might at first blush say sin is something like "doing bad things" or…

Tags: godnaturesinthomas mccall

God and Galileo [a review]

May 28, 2019

Faith vs. Science: from nearly every vantage point, there is some degree of tension between the two. Like oil and water, they just don't mix. To some, the answer to this "tension" is obvious: faith is a weird hobby you do in private like designing…

Tags: david blockfaithgalileogodkenneth freemanreviewscience

ESV Illuminated Art Journaling Bible [a review]

February 26, 2019

What is the purpose of owning a personal Bible? While for some a Bible might satisfy the need to be connected to something transcendent, I'd imagine many people would purchase a Bible so as to read it. Unfortunately, a majority of English Bibles in…

Tags: art journalingbiblecrosswayesvreview

Stereotypical End-of-year 'Best Books' Blog Post Title

December 30, 2018

What makes a book good? I read a decent number of books per year, and I am always quite hesitant to rate a book higher than 4 stars, mostly because I want 5 stars to mean something beyond "I enjoyed this book." To that end, my top books of the year…

Tags: amishbookschristmasevery good endeavorreadingreviewtechnologywheel of timewingfeather saga

ESV Archaeology Study Bible [A Review]

June 23, 2018

I have a love-hate relationship with study Bibles. On the one hand, the Bible is thousands of years old, and you'd be a fool to solely rely upon your own intuition about what it all means. That's not to say there's some mystical secret da Vinci code…

Tags: archaeologybible studycrosswayesv

Ready Player One [A Review]

March 19, 2018

A fun adventure, but depressing in its view of the world.

Tags: adventurebook reviewernest clineready player onesci fi

Static Typing: a Personal Journey

December 22, 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…

Tags: elmjavascriptreasonmlstatic typingtypescript

Long Before Luther [A Review]

November 22, 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

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