text: CHAPTER ONE The Introduction ONE LEAF IS ALL THAT REMAINED on the tree in Ireland and Elijah’s front yard the day they met Honey Bear Johnston. It was a Saturday and usually on Saturday they went down to their neighborhood park to play. As usual, their mom went along with them and, as usual, she […]
  November 18, 2022
  Isaiah – The Holy Mountain (Chapter 2 Commentary)
  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 much as you enter the national forest at its base. The thick forest trees block […]
  June 5, 2018
  Tales of Two Patriarchies – A Quiet Place vs. The Shape of Water
  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 early work mixed with Alfred Hitchcock and a dab of Stranger Things. Two ladies beside […]
  May 21, 2018
  CS Lewis – Dostoevsky – Jordan B Peterson – William Lane Craig
  The four men that 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 my older siblings when I was about 8 and I was hooked. I spent all […]
  May 19, 2018
  Isaiah Chapters One Through Five – The Prologue (Chapter 1 Commentary)
  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, a particularly successful and peaceful time in Israel’s history. But, there are storms on the […]
  April 8, 2018
  Prophets – The Voices in the Wilderness Giving Warnings to Lobsters
  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 a prophet really is, and why should I care what they said thousands of years […]
  March 1, 2018
  3 Books for Skeptics or the Christian Curious from Each Generation
  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. Here are three books written by authors of different generations that do a good job of […]
  January 29, 2018
  The Case for Christ – Review
  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 the production value or that the script is too predictable. It didn’t help that I saw […]
  January 15, 2018
  Stranger Things – Season 2 Review and Discussion
  Thanks for 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 doesn’t follow the archetype exactly but it keeps enough of the heart of it so […]
  January 10, 2018
  Jeff Suwak’s Book – No Punchline: Or, The Night Chale Thayer Blew his Head off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club – Review and Discussion
  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 into songs that were influenced by William Blake and the Google bots retrieved this jem […]