A nice piece in the New York Times summarizes studies on what makes for effective study habits. It’s not new material, but does cut against the grain of some common assumptions. Here are some ways that everyone (not just some certain kinds of people) retain information better: Study in at least a couple of different [...]
If you’ve missed the series Firefly, you may go to Hulu right now and start catching up. It was canceled after one season but managed to produce not only a huge cult following but also a feature film entitled Serenity. Following up on the series, and assuming for the most part that you know the [...]
When the Times of London asked its readers to vote for the best book of the past 60 years, they chose Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird. But we all know that being winner isn’t everything. The runner-up was Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth. I, being a barbarian, was introduced to this [...]
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Since yesterday was my son’s third birthday, I obviously had to shuffle him to bed as early as possible and get out to see Inception with my dad. (Minor spoiler alert.) As I read the film, there seemed to be two major driving forces in the film: one was the question of how you know [...]
This weekend we watched the cult classic, Donnie Darko. The film is disturbing, challenging, and at least a little bit confusing. The plot involves Donnie, a teenager with emotional problems and apparent hallucinations, in a series of acts guided by a mysterious, disturbing looking 6-foot-tall rabbit. (Harvey, anyone?) As Donnie is led by the rabbit [...]
We just rewatched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest last week. It is an amazing, troubling film, worthy of its five Oscars et al. It is a story of redemption, of deliverance–a story in which Jack Nicholson’s character, R. P. McMurphy, plays a leading role. But what struck me in the film is that for [...]
Having spent the past week drafting a chapter on sex for my Jesus and Paul book, wrapping it up with some thoughts on homosexuality yesterday and today, this is all I’ve got left: Love, Love, Love by The Mountain Goats King Saul fell on his sword When it all went wrong And Joseph’s brother sold [...]
In case you missed it on BioLogos, here’s Bruce Waltke on Evolution. If we deny it when the evidence tells us it’s true, we make ourselves a cult. That’s how he leads off. Enjoy.
This morning Karyn Traphagen of Boulders to Bits fame drew my attention to a fascinating article in the Washington Post. The article reviews a book entitled How God Changes Your Brain. In part, it seems, the upshot is that we must be careful in choosing what God we worship–we will be changed: “But Newberg’s research [...]
