Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Life, Literature on Oct 31st, 2008
The Wife is currently reading Harry Potter in French, and just ran across a strange word: Poudlard.
Evidently, that’s how the translator decided to render “Hogwarts.”
So, imagine some French kid coming to England for the First International (Harry Potter Kids’ Conference) to deliver a paper on the architecture of Poudlard.
He is met with nothing but ???’s.
Reminded [...]
Posted in Aesthetics (Philosophy), Literature on Jun 10th, 2008
As opposed to some of the graphic design I encounter in the world which is not very impressive, take a look at the following:
Depth (as in the third dimension) is an important part of a successful cover design, IMO. One doesn’t want one’s cover to make potential readers feel claustrophobic.
The depth issue may be ignored [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature, Religion on Apr 18th, 2008
I have a new article up at Radiant Magazine. You can read it here.
Posted in Culture, Literature, Philosophy on Apr 15th, 2008
I’m getting annoyed with people’s using the prefix “post.” “Postmodern,” “post-national,” “post-partisan,” “post-protestant,” “post-Christian,” “post-secular,” etc.
From here on, I insist that we be in the post-post- era. We are beyond post-’s. We have learned from the post-’s of the past and are better for it. We rise above the post-’s which divide. We look to [...]
Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Culture, Life, Literature, Philosophy on Apr 4th, 2008
One good thing that came of the Writers’ Strike was CBS’s rebroadcasting Season 1 of Showtime’s Dexter. At least, I assume that the reason CBS started to run Dexter was that they had no new material to air because of the strike.
The show comes from the book series by Jeff Lindsay, and Season 1 at [...]
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Religion on Feb 5th, 2008
I just ran across a very interesting looking book. It’s “Pagan Christianity?” by Frank Viola and George Barna. Here’s the description from the publisher’s website:
Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning?
Fantastic question. Cartesian, perhaps, but good nonetheless.
Why do we “dress up” for church?
Because it shows our [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature, Religion on Feb 3rd, 2008
I know it’s a bit late for this, but it just hit me last night that I’ve always misunderstood “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” (I guess I’m just slow on the uptake.)
I always took the song as describing a God-like figure who saw everything. But it doesn’t. How could I have been [...]
Posted in Literature, Religion on Jan 20th, 2008
Some of you may remember that I wrote a short post on King James English a little while back. I asked to be informed if anyone caught a mistake on my part. And Mike from Berean Research Institute caught a big one.
I mistakenly listed the second person plural subject form of “you” as “you.” It [...]
Posted in Life, Literature on Jan 15th, 2008
There people in your life who have changed you forever. One of those people for me was Tim, who taught me about graphic design. Ever since I’ve been critiquing people’s design choices left and right, writhing in pain whenever I see bad design, rejoicing whenever I see good.
I don’t have as good an eye for [...]
Posted in Literature, Religion on Dec 21st, 2007
It’s Christmas, and that means it’s time for my yearly, “The Wise Men Didn’t Follow the Star of Bethlehem to Israel” post.
They saw the Star once, and it disappeared. It didn’t reappear until after they had gone to Israel to ask where the king (whose birth the Star announced) was (Matthew 2:9-10).
That was why the [...]
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