Greetings and salutations on this momentous day! It was delightful to behold the technically minded geeks bid their (at times emotional) farewells to analog television last night. Heartwarming stuff… but now we must steel ourselves against the future and find the will to carry on. Shall we?
It was brought home to me this week just [...]
Given the choice of the easily accessible Internet and a radio with shortwave and good AM reception, I know it wouldn’t be a contest for me.
Growing up in rural Iowa I had antennas strewn over the yard and up the side of the house (thanks to some very patient parents) to listen to radio from [...]
I put a satellite dish on top of the house a few years back. After a few days and the help of some friends I got things going.
What I’m working on is called “Free To Air” satellite — that is, channels that haven’t been scrambled. While most common cable channels are scrambled, many interesting radio [...]
Buses proclaiming their disbelief in God, and “de-baptism forms.” What does this mean for our faith and what should be our response?
Mark Driscoll has built a whole church and a national following largely upon being hipper than the rest of his fellow Evangelicals – and also on a healthy dose of John Calvin. I happened to catch his recent appearance on the now-defunct D. L. Hughley Breaks the News on CNN, where Driscoll yukked it up [...]
I learned two things last night in the wee hours of the morning:
1) I’m too old for midnight screenings. Both because I get sleepy at that time of the day, and because 95% of the people in the theater were probably simply on spring break.
2) Watchmen is a terrific movie.
I doubt that the first of [...]
There’s been quite a kerfuffle lately surrounding the recent comments of Movieguide’s Ted Baehr (you know, the guy and the organization responsible for that Christian movie awards show that Mike wrote about) calling for Hollywood to recognize that its failing finances require a “stimulus package” consisting of the creation of more “family-friendly, uplifting and inspiring [...]
