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  • Sunday Seven: Current Events, New Music, and Healthy Eating

    Looks like this might be an every other week rhythm, and that’s probably just about right. Prayer for our city and nation: Our pastor Damein adapted this from a John Piper prayer. It was very moving, and we actually had a gap in the recording after he was done to gain composure before moving into…

  • Sunday Seven: Epidemiology, Mario Kart, Island Lime Rum Chicken

    I missed a couple of weeks, but now that summer is officially here, I’m looking forward to getting into a regular rhythm. Book I just finished: Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm & Mark Olshaker. My pastor mentioned this to me a while back and I decided to pre-order the paperback,…

  • Some of My Best Reads from 2018

    I read 125 books in 2018, which is below my average of 150. Part of that is because I actually spent more time doing other things. The other part is that I spent more time in my morning routine reading the Bible. Over the course of the year, I read the entire Bible once, and…

  • Introducing Top Five Friday

    I’ve been thinking about returning to regular lists of Top 10’s. It was a staple of my MySpace blogging days (RIP). However, I wasn’t shooting for any regularity, and merely posted whenever the mood struck. Now, I’d like to post every Friday. In doing this, I am self-consciously riffing on Tim Ferriss’ Five Bullet Friday,…

  • 2017 Reading Challenge: July Update

    You may have noticed I accidentally posted this last week with only three book titles. Obviously, that was a few days worth of reading, not entire month. And actually, this month ended up being the peak of the year so far. Rather than blurb each of the 20 books, I’m going to list them and…

  • The Well-Educated Mind: Science

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most people couldn’t tell a very coherent version of the story of western science. Sure, certain names (Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein) could be pieced together. But in terms of the flow of thought and discovery, I don’t think most of us are there.…

  • A Cartography of Christian Publishing

    When I was in school geography was one of my favorite subjects. I actually went to the state geography bee when I was in middle school because the spelling bee was too mainstream. I like to know the lay of the land and often that involves reading maps. Or, taking aerial photographs when the opportunity…

  • The Well-Educated Mind: Poetry

    One of the little known facts of a good seminary education is that you learn to read poetry. It is one of the predominant genres of literature in the Bible, although often in books no one reads (e.g. most of the prophets). While there are some rather obvious differences between Hebrew and English poetry, some…

  • 2017 Reading Challenge: June Update

    For the first time in a while, I focused more on writing than reading this past month. I had intended to post Monday through Friday all month, and other than last Wednesday and Thursday, succeeded. I did however still read quite a few books. 12 to be exact, which is 79 for the year. That…

  • The Well-Educated Mind: Dramas and Plays

    If there’s a genre of literature I’ve left mostly unexplored, it’s dramas and plays. I read some Shakespeare for my last ever undergrad class (Freshman Comp because you’re curious). Beyond that, basically nothing. But, that’s what Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Educated Mind is good for. The list below will help you and me fill in…