Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How To Program Your Mind To Stop Buying Books You Don’t Need
Just so you know, I have self-consciously adapted this from a Lifehacker article. With that out of the way, let’s be honest. If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent way more money on books than you could ever justify. This is a safe place. You can admit it. You’ve made poor financial choices involving book…
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What We’ve Been Up To In Ministry
Way back when, you might remember a brief blog series called What Are We Up To In Ministry: My Ministry Internship High School Boys Bible Study: Ephesians Church at The YMCA SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar Baptisms in the Swimming Pool Leading a Small Group ????? That was the Table of Contents, which as you…
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God With Us: Exploring God’s Personal Interactions with His People throughout the Bible
The last actual class I took as part of my Th.M was an independent study on how to review books. The fruit of that class was these four reviews: In the Beginning Was The Word The Christian Faith The Doctrine of The Word of God Raised With Christ The professor for that study (which was…
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Metal Monday: Darkness Divided | Hands That Bled
A while back, you might remember the article I wrote for Christ and Pop Culture about Tim Lambesis from As I Lay Dying. After that, Tom from Victory Records got in touch with me about writing about some releases. One of those was Darkness Divided and their first album Written in Blood (stream it here).…
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World’s Most Active Volcano, A Taste of Austria, Optical Illusions
I watch quite a few YouTube and/or Vimeo videos. You might have picked up on this recently with the addition of Music Monday and Philosophy Friday which are primarily video based. Now, I’m going to start sharing my favorite three interesting/humorous videos from the week on Saturdays. This week, I’ve got a timelapse video of…
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8-Bit Philosophy: Does Christianity Make Us Weak? (Asks Nietzsche)
To be honest, Nietzsche makes some good points. However, the version of Christianity he mostly reacts against is not the best. Some of what Nietzsche found unpalatable was simply the offense of the gospel, but some of it was simply offensive.
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Covenant and Commandment: Works, Obedience, and Faithfulness in the Christian Life
It seems like every few months or so, another title is released in IVP Academic’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series. Even as I work on this review, I’ve already started a more recent work in the series and just noticed that another title is coming this summer. None of this should be construed as…
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Sanctification: Explorations in Theology and Practice
One of my on-going interests in Christian theology is the nature of sanctification. Some of it is no doubt stemming from interest in how to personally grow in grace. A larger part of it though is learning how to best shepherd and disciple others in their personal growth in holiness. Helpfully, I was able to…
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Music Monday: Steven Wilson | Hand. Cannot. Erase.
One of my favorite bands is Porcupine Tree. Yes, that’s right, Porcupine Tree. The conceptual and sonic architect of the band is artist and producer Steven Wilson. These days, he is more focused on putting out solo albums, but they more or less still sound like Porcupine Tree so it’s all good. The above video…
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Benny The Bull, World’s Tallest Roller Coaster, Russian Dashcam Crashes
You might not know this, but I watch quite a few YouTube videos. You might have picked up on this recently with the addition of Music Monday and Philosophy Friday which are primarily video based. Now, I’m going to start sharing my favorite three interesting/humorous videos from the week on Saturdays. This week, it’s the…
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