Blake Crouch’s Recursion
The premise of recursion, like Crouch’s other novels, is very unique. He’s definitely an up-and-coming voice in sci-fi. [stextbox id=’info’]Ad: click here[/stextbox] His ideas are grounded in plausible...
View Articlesex and the Church, two book reviews
Here are a couple church-related recent book reviews. I tend to gravitate toward the ex-evangelical genre, as these two wonderful books attest. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a...
View ArticleGet Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
I adored this book for all the awkward reasons at this moment in history. Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve got a...
View ArticleThe Power review
What would a Bizzaro version of The Handmaid’s Tale look like? The Power by Naomi Alderman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Or how about if Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned weren’t so male-fantasy adventure...
View ArticleHalloween streaming, 2019
[stextbox id=’info’ caption=’Authors note’]This post was written last year during October and was never released. If I’m going to be late, better to wait until Halloween 2020, right?[/stextbox] Well,...
View ArticleEvangelicalism in the Trump Era
I grew up in the Evangelical Christian world. Its various tenets that were most vaulted were: Missions (spreading the Gospel to other nations) Marriage sanctity and nuclear family (one man / one woman,...
View ArticleUnwanted logo changes
Why must quality bankable podcasts change their logos? This truly is the golden age of podcasts. Though they’ve technically been around for many years, the last 4-5 years really saw an explosion of...
View ArticleToo Much and Never Enough review
A devastating read, from cover to cover. Particularly the prologue, wherein Mary Trump really unloads on her uncle. It’s cringe worthy to bear witness to such a public family feud, but if anyone has a...
View ArticleCoding Abstractions
Abstractions are everywhere. Loops are abstractions. Functions are abstractions. Programming languages themselves are abstractions over machine code, which itself is an abstraction over transistors...
View ArticleRadical Inclusion in the Darkest Valleys
Several weeks ago, my church had a series on the Lord’s Prayer, picking apart all the elements of the well known prescription of appealing to God. Near the end of the series was also a deep dive into...
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