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Which OS Are You?
Well, I took another one of those stupid online quizes. Which OS are You?
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
A gang of us went to see Innocence last night, and, well, I wasn’t too impressed. The visual imagery was incredible, and the story was pretty involved, but as with any Mamoru Oshii movie, the story gets bogged down in a bunch of existentialist mumbo-jumbo. Of course, you can’t really expect much more from a […]
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What is RSS?
You may have noticed the RSS links at the bottom-right side of this website, linking to some weird XML data. These links contain the feed data for our website. Hacking Netflix has written up a summary on what RSS is, how it works, and how it can be useful to you. I highly recommend taking […]
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Death and Burial
There are many aspects of life that we often take for granted, culturally, without considering them from a Biblical perspective. I take a certain pleasure in challenging those cultural assumptions, especially when challenged by our postmodern culture. The question becomes, why do we do things the way we do, and even more importantly, is there […]
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Cigars at Midnight
Wow… I am smoking the strongest cigar ever. “Buzzing” is too weak a word for what I’m going through right now. It’s called a “La Aroma De Cuba“, which, with even my broken spanish, is “The Smell of Cuba”. Now, my understanding is that, under it’s current dictatorial regime, Cuba really stinks. This cigar, however, […]
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Musings from Genesis
I have decided to read through the whole Bible, from start to finish. I was very excited to see that even as God created the earth, He had a plan for it. For example, as early as 1:11, He did not just create plants, but plants that yielded seeds — to continue a life process. […]
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Hypocracy and Other Bullshit
Matt 5:22b “Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.” I love the fact that English translations never translate “Raca”… they leave it there in all it’s phonetic and scandalous glory, as a two syllable sound which could […]
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Public School Teachers More Likely to Send Their Kids to Private Schools
Surprise, Surprise! Who best would know about the conditions of America’s public school system than the teachers who work there? If their opinions of the public schools are best observed from their actions, then their opinion is that the public schools are a bad choice. World Magazine’s Blog has information coming out of New York […]
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Name Calling
Instead of calling people “jerks”, which was our three year old’s name-calling word of choice, a word we frown on here at the Albrecht house, why not just call them a “jerp” instead? This is Thomas’ new name-calling word. When I yelled at him today for calling his sister a “jerk”, he informed me that […]
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The common good
We have learned to put things, issues, problems, yes – even sin in compartments with labels. It is more convenient to put a label on something and quietly store it somewhere than it is to sort it out and deal with it directly. We will, as individuals and as a society, never grow or be […]
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Partial Birth Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, was “unreasonable and not supported by substantial evidence.” What the headlines do not say, and what you have to read further to find out is that, “his ruling applied only to abortions involving a fetus that was not viable outside the womb. […]
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What Happened to Expository Preaching?
Well, the PCA web-magazine, By Faith Online may actually have restored a little bit of my faith in it. For a while, it seems that the magazine has been publishing a lot of fluff, and not much real content, but a recent article by Rev. Alistair Begg entitled What Happened to Expository Preaching? is an […]
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The Evils of Pietism
So, what is pietism, and why is it evil? Doug Wilson defines it by saying, “though piety is nothing more than simple godliness, pietism is a thorough-going sentimentalist idolatry. It is evil.” His article in the latest Credenda Agenda, on pietism explains well why protecting our children from the evils in the world will not […]
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God the Dangerous
Credenda Agenda has a new issue online with a powerful photograph on their front cover of a coyote’s corpse dangling on a barbed wire fence. The author then uses the image as a reminder of the futilty of atheistic thinking: Some might consider it a disturbing image. But we didn’t do it. We didn’t put […]
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blogs
Is not a moment of reality more interesting than all of the blogs in the world combined?