A Scientific American article about how executive function breaks down in normal people who are overexercising choice: Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain. You’re going to hear more about things like this.
Like the new look? I saw Shades of Gray at the Sandbox Design Competition and I thought that it would be a nice addition to the site.
William Dembski talks about taking his autistic son to one of Todd Bentley’s meetings in this Baptist Press article.
There is so much to say about this article, and some of them can be shared, and some can’t. First, it is a good thing to believe that miracles still happen, regardless of the stories that [...]
I’ll be upgrading the blog to Wordpress 2.6 soon, so don’t be surprised if things look funny sometimes in the next day or two.
(And with this, I have a chance of keeping at least one post on our front page! And there was not much rejoicing.)
Update: Actually, I’m done, I think. It went [...]
I have been enjoying following Gene Veith for the last few months (even when he repeats the canard that Calvinists aren’t Christ-centered, yadda yadda yadda), but I think he earned a permanent spot in my newsreader when I discovered that he’s into Doctor Who.
I have posted my sermons from the last two weeks at the GCBC website, if you care to listen to them (Psalm 122, Psalm 88). Sorry, the Psalm 122 one was a bit of a mess. My fault for trying something different.
Apparently we have a new poll. Check it out.
There are spoilers. Oh, boy, are there spoilers. I would be sore about the spoilers, but I’m just too gobsmacked by what I saw here. Every Doctor Who spinoff (SJA, Torchwood) comes together here.
Following is the trailer for “The Stolen Earth”:
I haven’t shown anybody, and I do mean anybody, my NaNoWriMo novel yet. It needs a lot of work. But I did Wordle it, if you’re curious.
In the next eleven days, I am:
Leading the kids’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Leading the adults’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Filling out some bank forms
Fighting with another financial institution or two over a lost receipt
Preparing and teaching adult Sunday School
Preparing and preaching Sunday’s sermon
Serving the Lord’s Supper
Making up for lost Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days with [...]
This is the most graphic thing I have ever watched about abortion. I hesitated (and still do) in posting this. But sometimes we need to stop talking about abstracts and deal with reality. Sometimes politics are important… and sometimes politics are shaped by the cold, hard truth.
Just like a person could support [...]
So, we decided to be gloriously lowbrow for a night, and check out Celebrity Circus, mostly to see Peter Brady garf it. (In fact he, or Christopher Knight I should say, was the best thing we saw on the show.) We didn’t know it was a full-blown reality show; we figured it would [...]
Just in case you forgot what the point was, this November.
(Hattip: Homeschool and Etc.)
I was caught off guard yesterday and found that I needed to prepare the kids’ lesson for our Wednesday night bible study. I came up with something that seemed to be helpful, and I thought I’d share it.
I cut out 32 pieces of paper, each about 3 inches by 3 inches. On one [...]
This is a review, containing spoilers, for the Doctor Who episode “Partners in Crime,” which aired in the US about a week and a half ago (what can I say, I’m behind).
Pastor Rob preached a very good sermon. It wasn’t groundbreaking, in the sense that he brought out any novel interpretation of Scripture; however, it did clearly declare the conditions in which those who are in Christ are to give. It was really good. They’re all good but this one really stood out. [...]
Lacking my favorite literary-pretentious expositions of Doctor Who episodes since the end of Series Two, I have decided to try my hand. Thankfully, the US is only three weeks or so behind the UK this time around, although the Christmas special was nearly four months back.
“The Fundamentalists who say the most ignorant things about evolution are wrong on their side. And Dawkins and Myers and their ilk, who dare to call people of faith ’stupid’ (while their own atheism requires as much faith as any snake handling fundamentalist), revolt me.” Original, linked here, found here.
Even if this never actually resulted in a bona-fide abortion, it’s still horrible. (This is a pretty sad/angry thing to read, so be warned.) (Update: wasn’t even true. Still a pretty horrible thing to deal with, though.)
The “problem of evil” has a lot of problems of its own. It’s a favorite of atheists and other people who argue against the God of Christianity, and it generally runs something like “if God is all good, and all powerful, then why is there suffering (or evil; or, why do bad things happen [...]
I neglected to mention the protest about the cancellation of Issues, Etc. which happened at work on Monday.
Rather than bore you all on an ongoing weekly basis with my progress on Atkins, I’ll just quietly (or not so quietly, if something surprising happens) update this permanent page on the site with my progress.
Clearly there is at least one Lutheran with excellent taste.
Last week in weight loss wasn’t so great after getting below 200 and all the fanfare. But this week is looking up. All the weekly stats after the jump.
As if you were interested (I know a couple of you are, at least), I upgraded TOOT to WordPress 2.5. It’s nice, overall. The only major functionality I think I lost was Wavatars, and to be honest, while on a mostly guy-oriented site like Shamus Young’s you can get away with people having [...]
