ESV Archaeology Study Bible [A Review]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 studycrosswayesvJune 23, 2018
Ready Player One [A Review]A fun adventure, but depressing in its view of the world.Tags: adventurebook reviewernest clineready player onesci fiMarch 19, 2018
Static Typing: a Personal JourneyLast 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 typingtypescriptDecember 22, 2017
Long Before Luther [A Review]"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 presspatristicsreviewNovember 22, 2017
Humble Roots [A review]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 ripenedNovember 21, 2016
Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age [A Review]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…Tags: bob cutillohealthlifemedical establishmentpursuing health in an anxious ageOctober 11, 2016
Punderdome [A Review]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…Tags: card gamegamejo and fred firestonepunpunderdomereviewAugust 5, 2016
Home Cooked [A Review]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 cookedrecipesMay 22, 2016
The Water-Saving Garden [A Review]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 gardenMarch 22, 2016
Reading, Reflecting, Failing, SucceedingOne 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 deerDecember 25, 2015