Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin Recommended to my by a colleague here in Brazil, “Paris in the Present Tense” was my introduction to author Mark Helprin. It will certainly not be the last Helprin book that I read. The book tells the story of Jules, an elderly French Jew with a colorful…
Theories of Knowledge (Great Courses) by Joseph H. Shieber A course in Epistemology at the University was (is) proving to be somewhat of a challenge, so I picked up this Great Courses Epistemology lecture series. I found the professor to be very engaging, and able to put complex questions on the bottom shelf, so to…
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known to the world as soccer legend Pelé, died earlier today. Pelé was synonymous, not just with Brazilian soccer, but with soccer as a whole. On Twitter soccer legends, athletes, and even world leaders are paying homage to a man who defined the sport as nobody else. Here in Brazil,…
A heartwarming story for the holiday season. A group of Brazilian schoolkids surprise a less-fortunate classmate with the gift of a new smart phone. In days when high-school violence and bullying are in the news, this is a welcome relief. Now excuse me while I go get something out of my eye. _____________________ Did you…
As I gradually return from a hiatus in updating this website, there are a number of relevant activities that bear reporting. I am reluctant, however, to litter the site with individual posts for each one of them. Therefore, I will summarize them in this one post. Itacyara’s Teaching Methods Class In November Itacyara finished up…
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Things were not going well for Jacob the Patriarch. A chain of disgraceful events, culminating in violation of his daughter and the revenge killing of the male population of an entire city by…
Last month the Mount Zion Baptist Camp held it’s third annual Teen Retreat, and it was awesome. With each passing year we gain more experience, the program gets better, and enthusiasm for the ministry among our churches and young people grows. This year our theme was “Challenges for Young People in Post Modernity”. We were…
Current Reading (unchanged from last week) What is Analytic Philosophy? by Hans Johann Glock Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock From the archives: my first real encounter with PC culture. A common theme I am noting in my philosophy studies (certainly not…
How Christianity Transformed the World by Sharon James Our secular overlords in academia and the media have done an admirable job of fashioning a narrative where Christianity is consistently a force for evil and Christians the perennial bad-guys. So much so, in fact, that many Christians have bought into the narrative and spend most of…