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The Konica AR 57mm f/1.4 on a digital camera
I haven't posted anything in a long while. Today provided me an opportunity to test a lens. Recently at an estate sale I acquired on the desirable Konica AR 57mm f/1.4 lenses. This is the second version of the lens, having the cool bluish coatings. The first version...
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Book Review
Book Review: Scientism and Secularism by J. P. Moreland
What is scientism? Dr. Moreland gives us a functional definition (p. 27), that “the hard sciences ... provide the only genuine knowledge of reality,” along with one (p. 229) that boils the matter down to a precise term , that is, “strong empiricism.” I would add that...
John Gray’s “Seven Types of Atheism” and the Problem of Ideas
The Problem of Ideas John Gray's "Seven Type of Atheism" My first reading of John Gray was his book "Black Mass, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia." It's a good and useful piece, outlining the historic theological structure of the liberal/progressive...
Christianity & Society
This Apocalyptic Age
People are looking for a reason to hope. They want hope, and the want a foundation for it. Take a look at the messages around you. The desire is everywhere. Watch The Man in the High Castle. The theme of the series is the quest for freedom. The definition of freedom...
Should Your Church (or Christian organization) Obtain a SBA Loan? (UPDATED)
I had a conversation with a friend whom I respect but with whom there is disagreement on this matter. He challenged me to answer certain objections to this position. Those points have been placed in an addendum. Thank you for taking the time to read this. This may...
A theological perspective on “The Man in the High Castle”
Ok, I'm a little late to the game. I spent some time this past week watching the first several episodes of "The Man in the High Castle." This is the story of covert operations involving the movement of films (1962 technology, and it was about books in the novel that...
Ethics
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Crafts
Nobody Likes Tear-out
You know -- those unsightly edges that make an otherwise nice piece of work look like something amateurish. Edges are everything. They are the appearance. Anyone can do a smooth surface. But fitting flush, perfect edges -- that's a little more work. (It's where I'm...
Outfit a Woodworking Shop for Less Than $1,000
Anyone who has spent any time in woodworking knows that it's expensive. It doesn't matter if you do it as a hobby or as a profession. Good equipment is never cheap. They will tell you to buy once, buy quality. That's a very good principle. It is cheaper in the long...
Theology
Understanding the Bible in Everyday Language
Most of how we interpret the Bible is how, or at least should be consistent with how, we interpret people around us. Really, it is. We read the needs of others and take for granted how we do it. Yet when we read the Bible we treat it as some other-worldly piece that...
Are We Living in a Theological Echo Chamber?
"Political discourse is dead in America. We can’t debate each other anymore. Open dialogue between opposing viewpoints has been cut off completely, and instead we all now seek out whatever echo chamber we find the least [logically] challenging, wall ourselves off from...
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Apologetics
Let’s Do Good Apologetics
Of course we want to do our apologetics well. Nobody *wants* to do it poorly. We do our best and we seek to serve the Lord and the gospel as best we can But still the question remains: What is good apologetics and what is bad apologetics? What Bad Apologetics is Not...
Where Apologetics Gets Really Difficult
We have this tendency to take on the questions that we can answer. For instance, when we were young and in school and the teacher asked a question for which we knew the answer our hands would shoot up. Giving an answer to things we know, especially those things that...
Faith-Fact: A Response to Jerry Coyne’s Argument for Empiricism
Today faith is defined as belief without evidence instead of trust and confidence based on God’s providence through history. This is a myth of the modern era, that one can separate things which are inseparable.
Education
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Politics
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Science
Science, Ken Ham, and Bill Nye: The Debate in Perspective
By now you have all read about the debate. If you want to view it so that this perspective and other review make more sense it is available here. It was an interesting event to say the least. But at the same time it raised some important questions – difficult ones...
10 Things You Should Know About Science and Evolution
Students everywhere face this challenge. So do adults. It is a hard question - what if "evolution" is true? The consequences are serious no matter how one answers the question. But the world does not end if we get the question wrong. (Many evolutionists have...
Essay
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