It was a pleasure to get such positive feedback on my recent blog post. I was originally a bit disheartened when I wrote the article because it just sat there for a full two days with no one commenting on it, but then Eddie Arthur noticed, and then Wayne Leman, and pretty soon a [...]

You may have hopes that you can open your Bible and get a quick dose of spiritual wisdom but the Bible wasn’t written to you. You may want to claim a verse like “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” but that verse isn’t a [...]

After six months of hanging out at biblioblogs and various Christian outposts I’ve noticed a pretty strong representation of Reformed, Baptist, Anglican, even something known as “Reformed Charismatics” but pretty scanty evidence of Pentecostal bloggers. What’s the deal? Are Pentecostals indisposed to electronic banter? Too busy administering their mega-churches? Actually, I’ve sighted [...]

Even when I was in the depths of my series on logical fallacies I remember asking myself, “Was Jesus logical?” It’s one of these curious positions you get in once in a while when studying the Bible. Have you ever heard someone criticizing a biblical author (usually Paul) for quoting Scripture out of [...]

Posting this message from my phone may seem strange but it shows that anyone with a cell phone can be heard on the web.
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Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

Well, I did a bit more research into moblogging and was amazed to discover that it is already happening, it’s a world-wide phenomenon and it is primarily a visual medium. The above photo was posted by an expat living in Mali.

To see images of Africa being “moblogged” at textamerica, click here.

There’s some background on moblogging [...]

Reading Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World Is Flat” and Seth Godin’s “Who’s There?” has set me to thinking about how everything is in place to provide global access to the internet. Most of my friends in Mozambique have cell phones and through “moblogging” pretty soon any one of them could start publishing on the [...]

I think I like this guy.

Does Bayesian epistemology shed any light or cast any doubt on the anthropic argument?
Scary thing is I think I actually understand what he’s talking about!!!

Rick at This Lamp has reminded me of the controversy regarding a study by Nature magazine which concluded that Wikipedia was just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica. BBC has an update on this topic. This epic struggle between a slow-moving, slow-changing beast (EB) and a rapidly mutating viral alternative (Wiki) seems somehow [...]

Ben Witherington and Tim Challies have been posting on movies. Their posts and the comments by readers bring up the conflict faced by Christians when deciding whether or not to participate in “worldly” culture. My family has spent most of the last ten years living outside of the US. When we make visits [...]

When you live in a non-English speaking country for a while, the local language starts creeping into your English. I think the term for this is L2 interference. Among expatriates it is often an informal code that reinforces group ties.

In Mozambique, Portuguese is the national language, and then there are many regional languages [...]

Sometimes there are worship songs that positively give me the willies. I kid you not that I recently heard a Christian singer (female) crooning “I’m blowing kisses to the one I love. Blowing kisses to the heavens above.” If anyone needs confirmation that the “praise-song-as-love-ballad” has become a reality that should be [...]