Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David My rating: 5 of 5 stars I ...
While reading Aquinas’ Summa Against Gentiles, I found this little gem in the very beginning of the work: Now, the end of each thing is that which is inte...
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated; ...
Today an article I wrote about the influence of the Protestant Bible on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published (in Spanish) at the Paraguayan newspape...
The text on the image reads, in a strictly literal (and quick and dirty) translation: Give me, Lord, courage and joy, to climb today’s summit. Those words...
THE EMPEROR CÆSAR FLAVIUS JUSTINIANUS PIOUS, FORTUNATE, RENOWNED, CONQUERER AND TRIUMPHER, EVER AUGUSTUS, TO TRIBONIANUS HIS QUÆSTOR: GREETINGS. Governing wit...
The national Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color published in its Cultural Supplement a translation I made of the famous Two English Poems of Jorge Luis Borges. I pr...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Two “big” posts are getting ready in the qeue: the first one is a book review (that is, the second one of my vacation series) and the other is more ...
Robert C. Solomon. Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self. No. 7 in the series A History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Tim tagged me for a book meme some ages ago. Dialup and time crunch prevented me again from doing this before; but here it is at last: How many books have I own...
The image you see at the right is a portrait of Ford Hendrickson, an independent missionary who worked in Venezuela first, and then in Paraguay. He was born on ...
A certain ministry with close ties to my church decided one day that they would print a church-planting manual produced in-house. Since the existing manual was ...
One day, wandering through the old Paraguayan Baptist Theological Seminary library, I picked a copy of a book almost in mint-condition: Systematic Theology: Bib...
As an Hispanic Christian, my spiritual life was and is still being shaped by the beauty and accuracy of the Spanish Reina-Valera 1960 version of the Holy Bible....
Back in the day, when it was time to print out the invitations for our wedding ceremony, G. and I decided that we would not put a Bible verse on it. The verses ...