Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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On The Reading and Reviewing of Books (There is No End)
Over the next several weeks, I’m going to be posting occasional thoughts on the art of reading and reviewing. Lately, I’ve been using the Drafts app on my iPhone to capture short ideas that I have for blog posts. As I’m looking through them, I see that many cluster around how I approach reading and…
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Jesus On Every Page
David Murray was a pastor in Scotland for a dozen years before crossing “the pond” in 2007 to take up his present position as Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (246). He is also one of my favorite bloggers and blogs regularly at headhearthand.org (and has a Tumblr as…
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Running Without A Title
You may have noticed (if you click through RSS) that there is no header anymore on the blog. Technically, that means the blog has no particular title, which given the history of my blogging makes it another phase in my search for a title. For now at least, I’ve decide to run without a title, which…
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Back In Business
You may or may not have noticed earlier today, but the website was temporarily down. I’m pretty sure I warned you it would happen at some point, and sure enough it did. But now, things are mostly back to normal. I was able to import all of my posts and pages, though there was some…
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Switching to Maintenance Mode
So… For the past several weeks, I’ve been getting this screen, more often than not, when I try to make updates from the WordPress Admin panel. I realize some of you all might have gotten this screen when you try to access other secure sites, but I found out, after a call to GoDaddy, that…
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Why I Don’t Give Many 5-Star Ratings
Earlier in the week, I thought now would be a good time to explain why I don’t rate more books 5-stars. I mean read a lot. And because I track my reading with Goodreads,[ref]Though useful, I actually don’t really like Goodreads as a reading tool. I’ll have to explain this in another post[/ref] almost every…
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Building A Theological Library: The Gospels and Acts
Last week, I introduced the New Testament portion of the Building A Theological Library series. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what I typically look for, and in…
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A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in The Christian Home
Jason Helopoulos is Assistant Pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s Kevin DeYoung’s church, and he and Jason are good friends. Jason is also a graduate of Dallas Seminary (finishing the same year I started college), so we probably have some mutual professor friends. What I’m…
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Blogging Triperspectivally
About a year ago, Tim Brister wrote a post called “A Triperspectival Approach to Blogging.” In it, he explains how one could utilize the insights of triperspectivalism in the way they approach their blog.[ref]If you’re not familiar with “triperspectvialism” then read this article: A Triperspectival Map of DKG[/ref] The goal is balancing several aspects of…
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Building A Theological Library: New Testament Commentaries
Several months back, almost 6 to be precise, I finished up a series on building a theological library focused on Old Testament commentaries. I had meant to carry right on to the New, but one thing lead to another, and well here we are picking up the NT many months later. Much like I did…
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