Fat man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki

History doesn’t just repeat itself by accident, the past triumphs and mistakes of humanity helps show us the outcomes of nearly every possible scenario.  Historical events helps give context to the issues we face today.  Like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10:11:

All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning…

After reading a recent post from a good friend of mine (read it for yourself here), I’ve been thinking a lot about the role obedience played in Christ’s life.  I’ve heard a fair number of sermons on how good a Son he was to his heavenly Father, and how we’re to mimic that. Yet his obedience to his earthly parents, and in turn their obedience to God, doesn’t seem to come up as much.

To be fair,…

I am in no way an aficionado of classical music (though I once purchased a copy of Cigar Aficionado).  However, I do have a few pieces I enjoy very much, including Haydn’s Die Schopfung (the Creation).  Such a powerful piece (much opera, very sing, such notes).  I like to imagine it playing over the scene in Lewis’s book [amazon text=Magician’s Nephew&asin=0064405052], as Aslan breathes Narnia…

O Lord, in prayer I launch far out into the eternal world, and on that broad ocean my soul triumphs over all evils on the shores of mortality.

Opening of a prayer from [amazon text=The Valley of Vision&asin=0851518214]

Lewis vs Tolkien…

Reminds me of [amazon text=Heaven's War&asin=1582403309], the Graphic Novel where Lewis, Tolkien, and the rest of the Inklings have to fight a demonically backed Alleister Crowley.  Classic stuff.

Writer Fights #3

If you’re familiar with FanFiction, then you probably know enough to never read it.  Sure, much of it is innocent enough, and quite popular in some cases (hence Amazon’s decision earlier this year to offer it in a marketplace format).  I just love Star Trek and Supernatural too much to watch my favorite characters be ruined by their fan driven relationships which are…just…wrong.

At a recent…

Lessons from Richard Hunne

Recently, while browsing through an old book on piracy, treason, and heresy, I came across the case of Richard Hunne.  His life, and ultimately his death, are something nearly impossible for a modern, western church attending christian to imagine.  In the 16th century, he did something unthinkable, and used the English government to defend his rights and fight against the organized church (which…

Tyler Durden, as written by Chuck Palahniuk, from [amazon text=Fight Club]

We don’t often think of our beliefs and our ideas as possessions.  Dreams, for many, are just that: the realm of fantasy.  Now fantasy has its merits, and within our minds we can build worlds, which are unaccountable, unrestricted by reality.  It’s said the inventions of Nikola Tesla needed very little prototyping or…

I swear on Tom Selleck’s mustache, I had this idea when I was in Zimbabwe over the summer: a soccer ball that can charge electronics.  Turns out over a year ago, a company got Kickstarter funding to make that exact product (except in a much more awesome way than I imagined).  Go figure.  They’re also releasing a jump rope that charges half your cell phone battery after only 15 minutes of…

My Favorite Coffee Shop: Capstone

I love coffee, nectar of the gods as far as I’m concerned.  I don’t take much pride in the kind I make at home.  Sure, I grind it myself, and I certainly don’t buy Folgers, but I’m not monitoring the water temperature, or slow pouring it over the beans.  I leave that to the Barrista.  The city where I live, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, doesn’t exactly sport a large variety of independently…

Odd Associations: Leviathan & Cthulhu

I love absurd connections (or strange attractors as Ian Malcom would say), the association of things that should otherwise have nothing in common.  It’s why I was obsessed with [amazon text=Chaos Theory&asin=0143113453] for so long (at the time it was just called Chaos Theory, a much better term in my opinion).  If we believe our universe was sourced from the mind of a single Being, which I do,…

Creation does not reach its completion until, in humanity, God has revealed to it its meaning.  Man appears only at the end because he has need of all the things that have come before him, while all that has gone before man only finds its meaning in him. – from [amazon text= The Experience of God&asin=1885652410], Vol 2, by Dumitru Staniloae, pg. 12