Way to go Fred!
Browsing over LXer, the GNU/Linux news site edited by my brother and friend Don Parris, I found this interview with Fred Miller. Fred is an old friend, back fro...
Category: faith
A Pastor in Aparecida
Rev. Harold Segura works with World Vision Latin America and he also serves as the Director of Theological Education for the Union of Baptists in Latin America....
Luke: What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?
I found this excellent article at All Unkept, Luke Plant’s blog : What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?. It is a great application of slippery-slope...
Some Good News for a Change
Today I would like to tell some good news. On March 29 and 30 I had to sit on two rather tiring qualifying exams to achieve the certification of Registered Publ...
On Porn: Responses to Porn Consumption
See also: On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure On Porn: Defining Porn, and Double Standards On Porn: Arguments Against It Examined On Porn: Some Interesting...
Bible-related Items
I would like to comment on some news related to the Bible. I intended to comment on some of those for a long time; thankfully, now I can 🙂 1. ESV Sales Growing ...
The “Evangelicals and Mary” Question
Early this morning I saw an article on First Things magazine written by Professor Timothy George of Beeson Divinity School: Evangelicals and the Mother of God. ...
Come Lord Jesus!
Here the usual preparations for Christmas are taking place. The sights and scents typical of the holidays are increasing their presence. The days are longer, an...
On Porn: Get yourself a reputation…
There is a well-known Spanish saying: «Hazte de fama, y échate a dormir»: Get yourself a reputation, and go to sleep… meaning, of course, that when it ...
On Porn: More Interesting Links
Disturbing report: Comments on a report showing how many pornographers are reaching out to kids. Disturbing, indeed. ChristiaNet Poll Finds That Evangelicals Ar...
On Porn: Some Interesting Links
I would like to share some interesting links I found via ChristDot. You will find links to the corresponding Christdot page instead of the article itself (in ca...
On Porn: Arguments Against It Examined
See also: 1. On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure. 2. On Porn: Differentiation and Definition. On our first post we stated that there was a definite problem...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: The School of Holy Cynicism
Sometimes the message you want to convey is much better said by someone else in such a way that adding something further looks like an offense. Such is the case...
Upcoming articles
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 ...