As yet another high profile evangelical departs from centuries of orthodoxy on the issue, we have to ask ourselves, what is happening, and should we question our own position on the issue? If the tide of public opinion is shifting against the traditional view, should we join it or get ready to defend it?
Should pluralism an important value for religious conservatives? And if so, why? In a really thought provoking interview with the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference, Al Mohler today explored the necessity and limits of pluralism, and the forgotten right of assembly....
Many of us suffer under the illusion that only “born artists” are creative, and the rest of us are just ungifted. But it turns out, creativity, like reading, writing, or public speaking, is a basic skill that anyone can learn. No, we are not all...
Are you an audiobook junkie? Do you crave better listening material for your long commute? Do you also own a few Kindle books? Then you are in luck. Amazon, who owns the audiobook service Audible, offers huge discounts on the audiobook version of kindle titles you...
In Part 1, we introduced the three levels of design, and went into detail regarding the first level of dynamics. The next, more concrete level of choices we have to make in designing a game or gamified software is mechanics. 2 Mechanics Mechanics are the...
Inspired by Matthew Scmitz , Artur Rosman, and a great list from 2005, and to celebrate Banned Books Week, I came up with my own list of books I wish were never written, and who’s reading can only bring misery. These are the times I...
A lot of people I know and respect have abandoned the Complementarian view for Christian Egalitarianism.. High profile evangelicals have furthered the dialog, like Rachael Held Evans‘ in her book Year of Biblical Womanhood. But as I’ve repeatedly affirmed, abandoning full Complentarianism for Egalitarianism is...
This is our first year doing homeschooling – we are starting our 6th grader, while our two younger children are still in the excellent Walnut Grove public school. We are totally nervous (n00bs), and since we are homeschooling under Connecting Waters charter home school, we...
