Essays

I’ve written, and posted to this blog, several essays on various topics. This page serves as a list of those essays that are not about the background of the Shine Cycle or Strategic Primer. Essays about movies also have their own index page.

Essays about the Christian faith:

• The Christmas season begins on Christmas day and runs until Epiphany; the diametrically opposed popular conception is rather annoying.
• On Thanksgiving 2009, I reflected on the many ways God has blessed me in my life.
• Christians who object to the abbreviation of “Christmas” to “Xmas” are both ignorant of history, wrong, and “straining a gnat and swallowing a camel.”
• “What is a sacrament?”
• What does the Bible have to say about “coming down from a ‘spiritual high’?“
• I reflected about baptism.

Essays on technology:

• I had many annoying problems with Google Reader, most if not all of which are now fixed or moot.
• Facebook limits profile sections to 3,000 characters, but allows an unlimited number of much larger photographs. “That seems . . . wrong, somehow.”
• An intermittent series on programs I need that apparently don’t exist yet.
• An essay about writing and social media

Books:

• A short review of Bujold’s then-brand-new fantasy/romance duology, The Sharing Knife.
• A series of posts listing books I think everyone should read.

Essays on political topics:

• “Memorial Day thoughts”
• “Gay divorce? The left’s fundamental misunderstanding of matrimony.”
• “On Veterans Day: Gratefully Remember and Reflect”

And miscellaneous essays:

• “Accumulated summer miscellany”: Four mini-essays in one post.
• “Graduation-day musings”: My thoughts after attending my brother’s high school graduation.
• “Birthday musings”: Thoughts on turning 21.
• “Why feedback is valuable, etc.”: A plea for feedback.