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January 2013

January 23, 2013

The Paradox of Lawn Care

From Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael...

January 22, 2013

The Quasi-Religious and Futile Enterprise of Space Colonization

Sci-fi author Charlie Stross on the futility of space colonization: [I] don't want to spend...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Why You Need to Start Talking to Yourself More

From D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Spiritual Depression: Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

A Brief History of Economic Time

One hundred years ago the average American workweek was over 60 hours; today it’s under...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Galileo on Human Nature

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters...

October 22, 2012

Handwork vs. Headwork

I spent thirty years of my life teaching philosophy at Calvin College and fifteen teaching...

October 19, 2012

The Mask of God

The doctrine of vocation, a term that is just the Latin word for “calling,” deals...

October 11, 2012

Your Emotions Are A Gauge, Not A Guide

God designed your emotions to be gauges, not guides. They’re meant to report to you,...

October 05, 2012

Life is Like a Mansion with a Wallpaper-Covered Hole Leading to a Rhinoceros Covered with Millions of Mice or Why Are We So Busy?

In his Pensees, Blaise Pascal wrote, “I have often said that the sole cause of man’s...

October 04, 2012

Faith is Thinking

Faith according to our Lord’s teaching in [Matthew 6:30], is primarily thinking; and the whole...

October 04, 2012

Kierkegaard on the Bible

From Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard (edited by Charles Moore): The matter is quite simple. The Bible...

October 04, 2012

Why Liberal Arts Majors Wouldn’t Want to Live on a Space Colony

Think about what life in a space colony would be like: a hermetically sealed, climate-controlled...

October 03, 2012

Tallis’s Daily Hallucinating Delusional Syndrome

If I told you that I had a neurological disease which meant that for eight...