Monthly Archives: February 2010

Feb 26 2010

There’s Room for Every Book and Tablet

Christians collect ways to read the Word of God. We have family Bibles, pocket Bibles, and personal Bibles. When we’re on a trip, we read from the smallest Bible we can carry that’s legible. When we’re in the comfort of home and have ample room to spare, we have family devotions from the family heirloom edition. When we’re in church, we read along with the preacher from our average-sized personal edition—not too weighty and not too small.

This is true of all books. We have many shaped and sized editions of all our favorite literary works. This is now happening to our computing device options. Continue reading →

Feb 25 2010

Interpreting Whole and Individual Scenes in Context

In a family flick, there might be a scene where the six-year-old daughter complains to her daddy that she doesn’t wanna go to a birthday party. First, she wines about it, but quickly this turns into tears and chewing the tips of her fingers; while her Dad struggles to pay attention to something else—like his smartphone telling him that his boss wants his head on a chopping block. Continue reading →

Feb 24 2010

Knowing Your Genres (for Interpretation)

Genres are slices of a whole life view. Life can be romantic, hilarious or haunting at times, but individual lives are not all these things at once. To make it easy for storytellers to communicate with their audiences, storytellers tell you stories using a small selection of human emotions, conditions, and details that reflect qualities we see when we’re feeling especially romantic, humored, frightened, etc. Continue reading →

Feb 23 2010

A Proper Interpretation of Fiction

I know. This post’s title sounds thrilling, doesn’t it? Don’t get too excited….

Readers interpret the meaning of stories beginning with the opening line of “once upon a time.” In some cases, with stories that are intentionally transparent and simple so all audience members will understand them with limited focus, this is easy. For instance, a good comedy won’t make you think too hard about its intended meaning. Continue reading →

Feb 21 2010

Where Do The Culinary Arts Fit In?

Is good food an art? Of course! It’s also a product of culture. Every nation gives their food their own flare. Dining is just as much a social event as nourishment, and has been one of the oldest cultural arts in history.

What’s fascinating about food is that we never grow tired of good food. We always want something tasty, and if we have any sense, we want the tasty to also be healthy. People are getting more health conscious, and with that attention to health, we start sweating the small stuff about our food. For instance, one of the most popular dishes around the world is the ever incredible omelet. It can be prepared in so many ways with so many good ingredients stuffed into a couple folded eggs. As long as you like regular eggs, you are practically without excuse to liking omelets. Continue reading →

Feb 20 2010

More Adobe Photoshop for 20 Years Celebratory Stuff

[Update Feb. 23, 2010:
For more in-depth coverage of the 20th anniversary and interesting information on Adobe, check out:

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/

This guy's site is one I frequent and rich with content.]

I mentioned in an earlier post that this is the twentieth birthday of Photoshop; the application by Adobe. Well, Adobe recognizes this momentous occasion as well, and they have made a website to honor the humble little history of development for their world-changing piece of software. You can visit the celebratory site here »

Feb 19 2010

If You Say So, Is It So?

Of course not! But many people would like you to think so. In fact, there is only one person in human history who could make something so just because He said so, and I don’t think any mortal man has that supernatural gift.

But we hear lies all the time, and we give them weight when we’re suckered into believing them. Worldviews are full of fallacies. Reason is not a natural human quality. Logic is something we have to exercise—sort of like an exercise routine for physical fitness. Your body isn’t going to exercise itself; you have to make it lift weights, do pushups, run a mile (jogging is wimpy), etc. Continue reading →

Feb 18 2010

Resisting Culture is Futile

Many a reclusive and well-meaning individual has attempted to evade culture as much as possible. There are some that simply want to escape civil government; those that want to be far away from religion; yet others that simply can’t stand the stupidity of the human race. For whatever people’s reasons, there are these that simply aren’t happy with the state of the world with what man has made of it. Continue reading →