Preface – The Dreaded Question I was driving my son to hockey and he asked a simple question that left me babbling like an incoherent monkey. “Dad, what is bitcoin?” “Well son, it is a digital currency,” I quipped. “What Read more…
Where I live, the landscape is dominated by Mt. Rainier. When the sun is shining, the looming mass of snow and rock can be seen from over 100 miles away. When you drive towards it, its perspective does not change Read more…
I had heard some good things about ‘A Quiet Place’ so I took a moment to go and see it this past weekend, and I must admit, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It reminded me of some of M. Night Shyamalan’s Read more…
The four men who have impacted my thinking and my faith the most throughout my life and what I learned from each one. CS Lewis It all started with a tattered copy of the Chronicles of Narnia handed down from Read more…
We have all seen it before. A movie starts with a future dramatic scene – A prologue of destruction that is to come. That is what the first five chapters of Isaiah lays out. Written in the reign of Uzziah, Read more…
One of the things that I wanted to do this year was to study my way through the book of Isaiah seeing as he is considered the Gretzky of prophets. First, though, I wanted to do some research on what Read more…
Isn’t Christianity anti-sex? Doesn’t the Bible promote slavery? Isn’t Jesus just a myth and not a real person? How can a loving God allow evil? Some questions are as old as the Bible and some are new for each generation. Read more…
My wife and I were finally able to watch Case for Christ now that it is out on Netflix. Honestly, I had been avoiding it. I generally don’t like Christian movies and it usually is because of the acting or Read more…
Thanks to all of you who read the Season 1 Review and Analysis and provided input. The discussion helped me realize something about the underlying metaphor or archetype that drives the series. Note: it is not an allegory so it Read more…
You just never know who you might find on Twitter. I started chatting with Jeff Suwak after tweeting this: Every Grain Of Sand by Bob Dylan Songfacts https://t.co/xE8yBqRH8c via @songfacts — Nate Weger (@run8tech) December 21, 2017 I was looking Read more…
I was gifted this book on my Kindle by a good friend. I see the aim of the author as two fold that he wraps in a narrative of a road trip and personal communications that he had with the late Christopher Hitchens. I Read more…
The fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast has been commandeered as a story of female (and now gay) empowerment. The original fairy tale, of course, was never about that. I finally watched the new live action Beauty and the Beast over Read more…
My family expectantly waits every week for the next History Channel’s Oak Island episode. It has become a Wednesday night ritual (because we buy it from Amazon we get it a day later). I have wondered why this series is Read more…
The 80’s… Where the kids of Generation X came of age. The forgotten younger kids of the baby boomers. The product of the 60’s free love and the 70’s hangover. When the nuclear family and patriarchy were still the dominant Read more…
I was given this book from a friend at work who recommended it. I make it a point that if someone I know recommends a book to me out of the blue to read it. It is only because Read more…