Jim West continues to amaze and amuse. It was fun to ping-pong a few goofy posts about Zwingli and the result of all my slander is that he blogrolled my blog! Hurray! One step closer to market saturation and SEO. Jim’s scurrilous post David Ker: The Devil? Or Just One of His Minions? gave my blog the [...]

Today I discovered that someone used the Three Lenses (No, four!) in their discipleship class. They have a nice summary of the four lenses:  Equipping The Saints: How to Read: Session I Summary I continue to ponder that fourth lens. How can we look at the Scriptures and allow it to reveal our true nature? James [...]

Zwingli who? Never heard of him. And why is Jim West trying to transform Huldrych Zwingli into a dashboard Jesus? A bobblehead dashboard Jesus with a funny hat.  Did he write any Institutes? Or send heretics to the gallows? Or preach to the birds? Nada. Just another Latin-lipped milksop in a funny hat. (Actually that hat is [...]

I have really tried to resist saying anything more about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign. But this project is so full of the foibles of Western development that it is fast becoming a symbol of a “cool idea” from our outsider perspective that is actually disastrously dumb. OLPC is an easy target. And I [...]

Last night Sarah Gardner and her one-year old Caleb were medically evaluated from Nampula, Mozambique to South Africa. Caleb was originally diagnosed with croup but all they’re sure of is that it is some infection affecting the lungs. He had to be kept breathing for more than four hours with a hand ventilator because the respirator at the hospital [...]

Having one of those Mondays? Here’s a cupcake to cheer you up: If you’re on Facebook, you can send me a cupcake by clicking on the cupcake. I already sent one to a very special friend who is having a birthday this week. I am planning to excoriate him in a vitriolic diatribe so this [...]

Just to prove how hip I am I joined Facebook. Now, let it be known that I am only 39 years of age and in this century that’s still practically a child. But I can’t exactly figure out how the thing works so please be so kind as to add me as your friend: David Ker. In [...]

Cyber-Psalm 5.0 I woke up thinking about acrostics and doxologies and clichés. In this prayer I wanted to let the acrostic form and an avoidance of clichés lead my praising in unexpected directions. The result is terse and cryptic but refreshing. Doxologible means “worthy to be praised.” And jamborific means “cause for celebration.” Of course, Kerfuffle-keeper [...]

An Alphabetic Doxology Astounding amazer. Big blazer. Cosmological. Doxologible. Everywhere. Far-fielding. Grand and glorious. Haughty and harrowing. Invisible intimate. Jamborific. Kerfuffle-keeper. Light-leaper. Manifold maker. Nothing nulling. Ontological O. Parent. Quester.Reacher. Secretive Soul. Teleological toucher. Universe. Very.World. X. You. Zealous Zephyr.

God is furious.   Yahweh wants vengeance.   Yahweh’s taking vengeance. He is the Lord of Rage! Based on Nahum 1:2 John Hobbins’ post on the prophecy of Nahum has really captured my imagination. In Are we talking about the same God? I compared Nahum’s venomous vision of a wrathful avenging Deity to the anemic, apologetic Christ at Heart’s [...]

Thanks to those of you who have sent kind words regarding the death of my dog, Chaka yesterday. All my jokes about the bizarre affection that people have for their pets are rebounding on me as I am incredibly sad.  Here are a couple of things to read while I get myself sorted out: Herman Who? Ben has [...]

Do you remember the old days when you used to have to connect your computer to the phone line and the modem would make all the scratchy beeps and whistles while connecting? That’s what we do now and it feels lightning fast after almost a year of realllly slow Internet. One thing I wanted to do [...]