Tim Challies on the influence of Christianity
There is a pervasive tendency to ignore our Christian heritage and how Christianity introduced a respect for life and liberty that was completely unknown before...
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Upgraded to 4.0
I upgraded WordPress to 4.0. Seems to be a great update. It surely looks inviting.
Disturbing trends among Paraguayan evangelicals
The last weeks brought a lot of new developments and I plan to share them soon. But now I’d like to report that the Paraguayan evangelical church has show...
Blogroll and sidebar. Time to change.
I seriously need to rethink the content of my sidebar, and especially, of the blogroll. I was enrolled in some old blogrolls that, while useful, are no longer a...
The Subversion of God in Aronofsky’s Noah | Godawa’s MovieBlog
And even more yet on Noah. This commentary by Brian Godawa is very good. The Subversion of God in Aronofsky’s Noah | Godawa’s MovieBlog.
Sympathy For The Devil — Dr. Brian Mattson
More on Noah: the movie. Dr. Brian Mattson points some interesting issues that I also suspected. In short, he exposes Noah as an apology of Kabbalistic Gnostici...
Lyndon Unger: A No Holds Barred Review of Noah : The Movie 2014
Today Noah, the movie, is premiered in Paraguayan cinemas. Very appropriately, Mennonite Brethren pastor Lyndon Unger posted a detailed review article (warning:...
New blog theme
For several years I used Fluid Blue as the blog’s theme. In my (always subjective) opinion, it was a great looking theme. However, it became too old and u...
Fast Company: How to Seize Your Most Productive Hours To Get Things Done
This article at Fast Company caught my attention. I’m usually a night owl, and the feelings of frustration that describes certainly ring a bell here. Reco...
Merry Christmas
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 ESV) I w...
Wikileaks and the “Dissent Tax”
First things first: Merry Christmas! A Christmas post is imminent. Stay tuned 😉 And second: It’s been a looong time! I know, I know… but work and la...
The Least Common of the Senses in Computing
If you forgive me the obviousness, you may have already heard that somewhere else that “common sense is the least common of all senses”. As far as p...
OfB.biz: When Jerks Abuse an Organization
You might remember that I called your attention to Tim’s insightful piece, “The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers“. In response to that, I wrote tw...
Software: KDE and assorted stuff
Time goes on, and with it, new software releases come and go. So, I think it is appropriate to comment on some software I use. Let’s see: My GNU/Linux dis...
The Web Ads Question
Tim, in a recent blog post, has tackled a subject that touches a sensitive area of Web surfing: ads, and the ethical validity of blocking them. The issue is tha...
2010: Perspectives for the New Year
As a flip-side piece to my 2009 evaluation post, I would like to set some things that I should take into account regarding the year 2010: In the personal side, ...
OfB: The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers
Tim recently wrote a great piece at Open for Business. He tells about the hidden danger posed by people trying to transform church discipline into just another ...
2009: The Year in Retrospect
Oh my. 2009 was such a year! It was a year full of news good and not so good, and it came and went in style, but all was so hectic! 😉 But I digress. The year 20...
Merry Christmas!
for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people...
Bilbo Blogger!
I just discovered a great blogging app: Bilbo Blogger, a blogging app for KDE4. I set it up in its simple config dialog, and presto! it retrieved all my last po...
Akismet enabled
I finally caved in and enabled the Akismet web service to stop comment spam. I was getting between 250-300+ comments per day, all of them spam. So far, it seems...
Argh! That wretched moderation!
I need a hammer. A Really Big Big Big Bad Hammer(TM), and also Some Things to Crush In a Fit of Anger. While moderating my ever-increasing spam comments, some p...
My, is March already over?
I cannot believe how fast March went down the drain. One day, and we were just on the beginnings; and the other, and it’s the 31st!. Several things happen...
Great, timely posts
I still don’t know the outcome of my church’s administrative session that was planned for today. I went to the 8:00am service and promptly left afte...
Another theme
I continue experimenting with themes. This is Fluid Blue 1.5, a great theme by Srini. The big merit of this theme, in my opinion, is its resemblance to the old ...
WordPress 2.3… yay!
I managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3. This is a pretty serious upgrade, and for the first time it comes with native tag support! Because of this I also decided...
Back From a Forced Hiatus
It’s been a long time since my last post. Of course this is an uninentended condition; I really meant to post more often. However, besides the usual delug...
A Challenging Week, Upgrades…
This has been a challenging week. Things are not going as well as I would have wished in the financial front; but we are holding on. But the most difficult prob...