“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock. I believe Mr Hitchcock was right. I also think that we can say something similar in regards to sermons in church: “The length of a sermon should be directly related to the endurance of the human [...]
I was recently asked via Google Buzz: @Wes Widner unfortunately I think that some people when hidden behind their computers do not fill obliged to follow accepted social norms, however I think that compromising such rules here is completely inappropriate, why should people be allowed to say more or behave differently here than in real [...]
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At the core, all counseling is religious or, at the least, pseudo religious. Counseling, by its very nature, deals with ultimate purpose and teleological design so that any advice one gives a person in a counseling setting is necessarily moving them towards what they believe to be the ultimate meaning and/or purpose in life. -Wes [...]
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16 World is not merely nations in this text. Such a distinction, while required in order to prop up the doctrine of limited atonement, is simply not found in [...]
What do we believe? How do we operate? What sort of structure do we abide by? There are some of the questions I had after deciding that the way I had always “Done church” just wasn’t cutting it. But what was a viable Biblical alternative? Over the past couple of years, I’ve compiled a few [...]
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian author who lived between 1911-1980, is widely credited at the first “media critic” whose work in dissecting the epistemological effects of the TV on society is still in use today in many classrooms (particularly the advertisement or marketing classrooms). In The Medium is the Message McLuhan defines a medium as anything [...]
A friend of mine recently commented on Facebook: Capitalism looks at developing countries in the same way that Britian looked at colonized countries. They were places to steal resources from. The bible tells us “not to show favoritism” and to consider the least as equal with the greatest. Here in America we waste so much [...]
Google recently decided to increase the pay of their homosexual employees to cover a tax on health benefits given to domestic partners. What is this tax? According to the NY Times: Under federal law, employer-provided health benefits for domestic partners are counted as taxable income, if the partner is not considered a dependent. The tax [...]
As I’ve been reading through the excellent rebuttal to 5 point Calvinism, Whosoever Will, I ran across a section that listed (with more explanation that I plan to give here, so buy the book if you want to learn more) a several key texts that provide evidence that God’s will is indeed resistible: Prov 1:22-26 Hos 11:1-9 [...]
Reading through Aldous Huxley‘s follow-up to his popular (and insightful) work, A Brave New World, titled A Brave New World Revisited I came across a section where Huxley discusses the role and use of propaganda. Specifically how propaganda is the central means by which totalitarian regimes control their populace. To do this he uses a [...]
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