Thoughts on Theology
This book releases today:
Bunmi Laditan. The Honest Toddler: A Child’s Guide to Parenting. New York: Scribner, 2013.
I follow @HonestToddler on Twitter because it’s so entertaining, especially since my wife and I care for three little children.
The central theme in all the tweets and throughout the book is that Continue Reading…
I listen to a lot of audiobooks, lectures, and sermons on my iPhone. And I almost always listen on double speed. Here’s how to do it on an iPhone or iPod.
You can do this by simply dragging and dropping (i.e., copying) an audio file (like an MP3 file) into an iTunes playlist.
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Right-click the track(s) in iTunes.
Unlike God, we are finite and sinful.
And our limitations and sinfulness apply even to our memory, “the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information” (Concise Oxford English Dictionary).
See Oliver Sacks, “Speak, Memory,” The New York Review of Books (February 21, 2013).
This stands out:
Frequently, our only truth is narrative truth, the stories we tell each other, and ourselves—the stories we continually recategorize and refine. Such subjectivity is built into the very nature of memory, and follows from its basis and mechanisms in the human brain.
Last month I shared that article with a sharp biblical scholar in his mid-60s, and he replied, Continue Reading…
I recently posted that our family had put our home up for sale, so I’ll praise God by sharing an update:
Eight days after putting our home on the market, someone put an offer on our home, and we soon agreed to terms. As of today the home is officially under contract (with a closing scheduled in May to fit our timetable).
We are so grateful to God. Grace.
A good friend gave me a waterproof New Testament before I rafted through the Grand Canyon in summer 2011, and several of my friends have been loving these Bibles for reading in the shower and bathtub. (I won’t name them!)
I remember freaking out when one of my friends demonstrated that it really is waterproof: he walked over the sink, turned the water on full blast, and stuck his Bible under the faucet! No harm done. Amazing.
Here’s how the publishers describe these Bibles: Continue Reading…
Jenni and I finished listening to this audiobook last week:
Eric Blehm. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2012.
It’s a gripping story.
It led me to
Cf. the book trailer.
(Thanks, Chuck Hervas, for the recommendation.)
We just put our home up for sale. (We’re planning to move to Minneapolis this summer.)
Please feel free to spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in buying a beautiful, sunlight-filled home in the Greenville-Spartanburg area in South Carolina.
Update on 3/7/2013: Our home is under contract!
