Archive for January, 2008

Reformation Reversed: Emergent Church and the Undoing of Faith

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

“Christians are now the foreigners in a post-Christian culture… we need to view ourselves the way others on the outside see us.” –Dan Kimbal, They Like Jesus but not the Church.
“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of [...]

My Mac Adventures: Addendum

Monday, January 7th, 2008

As readers of this blog probably know, in 2005 I embarked on an ill-fated voyage to create a native Mac version of my Bible software. I was unable to complete my quest and disappointed several of my users who had already switched to Mac and were hoping I would be able to give them SwordSearcher [...]

Of Populsim, Envy, and Identity

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The debate last night showed Edwards and Huckabee getting ready to try to win the presidency on typical class-warfare, envy politics. Edwards is the worst, but he’s only being honest about his goals where his Democrat counterparts are being quiet. But Huckabee isn’t much better. Both are running on the notion that the middle class [...]

Global Cooling: Don’t call it a comeback

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

It’s easy to forget that in the 1970s, climatologists were foretelling the coming of a new ice age.  We’re supposed to forget about that because now the “consensus” is that we’re causing our own warming spell.
But not according to Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, a research scientist for the Oceanology Institute in Russia.  Dr. Sorokhtin points out that climate fluctuations [...]