It’s been a while! January 11th to be exact. In my last blog update I warned that this year would see less posts (even though I promise my goal is still one a month). I just completed my latest semester at UF so I’m hopeful that the summer months will give me more time to... Continue Reading →
The Goodness of Limited Potential
Oh how our age hates limits. Limits of the body. Limits of the mind. Limits on our freedoms. Limits of space. Limits of time. God forbid we make just one commitment, lest we possibly miss out on some greater unforeseen opportunity. But as with so much of our humanity, limitations, when rightly understood, need not... Continue Reading →
My Top 5 Non-Fiction Books of 2022 (and a Blog Update)
Blog Update It’s been a big year for my writing. I won an essay contest on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia which resulted in my first published essay on Mere Orthodoxy. I have an article on the communication concept known as mitigated speech awaiting printed publication in a leading firefighter trade journal. And, I am in the... Continue Reading →
Book Review – Paul Gould: A Good and True Story
Character I recall once listening to a podcast conversation discussing reasons why cross-denominational Christian unity seems so much stronger in the UK rather than in the US. One of the primary reasons discussed was the fact that in the UK it is more difficult to avoid those Christians whom they disagree with. In the US,... Continue Reading →
Blow Up Your TV… or at least consider it
Letting Things Go: About five years ago, I gave up Instagram. Hard stop. Well sort of a hard stop. I actually tried it out first. I forget the exact details, but I remember thinking through some articles I was reading about the negative affects of media and decided to take a break. The only specific... Continue Reading →
The Fall is a View of Life – G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton is one of the those authors who I have way more quotes from than I do books. Which of course, simply means that I need to buy more of his books. I've read perhaps his most classic work Orthodoxy, and it is probably in my top three books of all time. Chesterton is... Continue Reading →