On Porn: Defining Porn, and Double Standards
I would like to thank my readers for their kind comments on my previous post on porn. This indicates that many people feel that this is something that really ne...
Author: Eduardo
A Skete’s Library?
My brother and friend dunefan (aka PenguinBoy) tagged me for this meme, and I am happy to spread it on. The blog is just this question: “If you could only...
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4
The WordPress folks released WordPress 2.0.4, an upgrade that is labeled as an important security fix and also a small functionality upgrade. The fixes are impo...
Final Article on Kant in Paraguayan Newspaper
Today the third and last part of my Kant series appeared on the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color. You can see it in Spanish in the newspaper’s website here....
New House!
Looks like we found a new house! Yesterday I signed the lease contract for a house that is located not too far from our actual home. The keys will be handed on ...
On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure
If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best onl...
More on Hispanic Names
My post on Hispanic names was very well received, and I got some nice comments for that. I really appreciate the kind thoughts expressed. I would like now to ro...
Moving: Back to square one
After some prayerful consideration, my wife and I decided to walk out of the rental application we mentioned earlier. We were not entirely convinced of the real...
Updates on the Home Front
Moving On with Moving. Things have been quite busy around here lately. I continue to be very busy at work, and that is also true of my wife. At the end of the d...
The Fourth of July: A Plea And Plenty of Fireworks
Please bear with me; I am going to rant a little bit about politics. Today we commemorate the Independence Day of the United States of America. It is an occasio...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: Approaching the book
When one opens the Ecclesiastes, one might perceive that one is looking at a book that is totally different from other books in the Bible. That’s right; E...
Kant Paper in Paraguayan Daily, Part Two
If you have read this recent post, then you might be interested to learn that the second part of my paper on Kant has been published in the Paraguayan newspaper...
Time for a (cosmetic) change?
I am considering the possibility of changing my blog theme. The current one is a way too hacked version of the Blue Theme by Alex King, originally made for WP-1...
A response from Doug
Doug has written a nice response where he makes some clarifications and corrections to my previous post on the “worship wars.” I found interesting t...
Just Shut Up And Take It Like A Man
The title might look shocking, and it is. And yet, there are too many Christians and churches that are happy to tell their brethren to act like this as their an...
How to Properly Set Up Slackware
Dugan Chen wrote this great article about setting up Slackware. Like my (still ongoing and not dead) Stealth Desktop series, this is also a post-install guide. ...
Two World Cups
Right now there are at least two world cups going: One is the famous FIFA Football World Cup. Paraguay is supposed to play in the next hours against Sweden, aft...
Kant Paper in Paraguayan Daily
Some of you might remember my paper “Influence of Protestant Dogmatics in the Thought of Inmanuel Kant” (abridged English version, full Spanish vers...
KDE 3.5.3 installed
This is a short note to tell you that I managed to download and install KDE 3.5.3 (a whopping 231 MB of Slackware packages!). I do not perceive any functionalit...
Which Theologian Are You?
Interesting… You scored as Jonathan Edwards. You’re the original hellfire-and brimstone preacher and you take God’s justice very seriously. Yo...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: God as a Fellow Traveler
The Old Testament is a gagged book. Indeed, a careful reading of the Hebrew Bible will show whole books, chapters, and verses that have been silenced. A prime e...
Two Big Software Releases
1. This morning I saw that WordPress 2.0.3 was released. This is mostly a bugfix and security release that includes an issue raised by Bugtraq some days ago. Up...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: Some Common Interpretations Offered
The question of how shall we interpret the Ecclesiastes is in some ways related to the larger issue of Old Testament interpretation. Ecclesiastes has suffered g...
Quiet Time Guilt
This writing by Greg Johnson really rang a bell with me: It’s ironic, but the Quiet Time has become the number one cause of defeat among Bible-believing Chris...
On The Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: The Value of the Old Testament in the Christian Church
This is the beginning of a series on my favorite book of the Bible: Ecclesiastes. I plan to write later about the reasons why Ecclesiastes is such a favorite of...
Ed Hurst: Wordless Longings
My brother and namesake Rev. Ed Hurst has the rare gift of writing with Biblical wisdom, clarity, sensitivity and uncompromising force. I regard him as a modern...
A Hidden Tax on Foreigners
This is a pet peeve of mine and I am going to rant against it. Please bear with me. I hate tipping. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate it. My disli...
Spammed (again…)
The frequency and volume of spamming directed towards this blog has increased enormously over the last week. I had to alter several parameters of my setup in or...
A Primer on Hispanic Names
This is a short post aimed at helping my English-speaking readers on how to correctly parse and distinguish Hispanic names. Given the facts of an increasingly g...