How many Bible verses do you know by memory that you can recite right now? How much of the Bible have you read? Why would you bother, you ask? In times of trouble, what is oldest and deepest returns to mind. When there was a fire in my house and I had a bit of smoke inhalation I called a fire department in a town I hadn’t lived in for twenty years ( I should have called 911 but because…..
With software we continually improve by removing bugs and adding features. Eventually we get to the point we want to do something dramatically different and we call the last release a terminal release. At that point we don’t spend time on it anymore and it is stable. If you want the next set of improvements, a bigger upgrade is required. Oddly, history has a similar rhythm. The nature of people telling stories in print means they stabilize into the accepted…..
The Latin translates to the Joy of Love, and it was released on Friday. It clocks in at 263 pages. The news media focuses on “rules” that weren’t changed to make popular first world stuff ok. They miss the boat. I hope everyone reads the original, downloadable here. I recognize no one has time. The document is 325 paragraphs. Read one paragraph a day and you’ll have it done within a year. This document is ground-breaking, inspirational, and potentially church…..
I admit to multitasking the March 3rd Republican debate with Robin Dreeke’s new book. That is, until Donald Trump’s response “Just look at the size of those hands,” crossed the screen. It was a response to Marco Rubio’s prior unfortunate joke “And you know what they say about guys with small hands” that occurred at a campaign rally the prior week. I had the feeling I was watching a campaign end, watching it go into free fall before my eyes,…..
A review of Reza Aslan’s Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Aslan is one of the voices in the USA media explaining Islam to Christians today. He is popular, because he makes most Muslims seem anti-extreme, a comforting thought and one that helps promote the unity of humanity against extremism in our time. I read his book about Jesus in part to calibrate his credibility. My theory is he will be similarly accurate when evaluating Islam’s…..
The Blue Ink Review beat out the competition to provide the first professional review of the book Rekindled, posted here. I was warned to have a thick skin on this review business. Really, it is a fine review. It gets the spirit of the book right. What they say about what I did is true — I certainly did not make the characters use archaic language as that would have made the story really hard to read. I stand by that, even…..