I just received the strangest phone call. I answered and a recording told me that I had received a text message from a Rogers Wireless subscriber. Then recording then ended and a text-to-speech system read out the content of the message. Apparently Rogers hasn’t invested heavily in TTS, since ...

When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

We watched the penultimate teaching from The Truth Project this evening at church. It dealt with labor. I found it a good teaching, showing that work can be a joy because God Himself took joy in His work. Best of all, the teaching touched on the need for Christians to support the arts and those skil...

[Link to Part 6] It Takes More Than Markets to Address Poverty A frequent critique of market economies is that some people end up poor. Depending on your definition of “poor,� this is a truism. If “poor� means the bottom 1%, 10%, or 20% of the wealth distribution, and you aren’t going to e...

[Link to Part 5] Over the last five posts I’ve made the case that economic freedom has generated unprecedented abundance. People acting on what they believe to be in their best interests bid for goods and service, and people acting on their perceived best interest freely chose to provide goods and...

[Link to Part 4] Modern market economies create an incredible abundance, due in large part to the dynamic interchange of information. People have the freedom to bid for goods and services based on their wants and needs, and people have the freedom to organize resources to meet the needs of others. V...

At some past jobs, although not so much at this one, I’ve been the guy that my co-workers referred to as “tinfoil hat security guy”. I was the one who worried about cookies and tracking before most people did (and well before we all just gave up because Google knows everything abou...

In my previous post on this topic of being spiritually attractive, I noted that, too often, the contemporary Church in America resembles the slightly annoying, loud, “two bagger” friend of the naturally beautiful girl, and that’s the reverse of what it should be. We are the Bride o...

All the young dudes hunkered in a pack at the back of the Taco Bell, the mecca of cheap food for young dudes everywhere. Like most 19-year-olds, they took big bites and talked a little too loud for a small restaurant. Enter two young women. They were the classic pair one finds in many romantic comed...

I remember Monday, April 7, 2008. I walked down to the creek beside our home and sat on the bridge. It was easy to pray on such a beautiful day. The cerulean sky erupted in white, pierced by the rays of an energetic sun, while a casual cloud or two drifted by, oblivious and serene. Winter had fled, ...