The Problem of Evil: A Summary
I’m setting out here to write the most concise description of the problem of evil and its solutions I can muster. This is still rather long, but probably not bad, considering there are thousands of books written on this topic. Brevity, however, does prevent me from fully developing any of…
22: Healing of the Paralytic
On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. Luke 5:17 Luke introduces us to the Pharisees…
21: Healing of the Leper
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made…
Review of Plastic Words: The Tyranny of A Modular Language
Poerksen, Uwe. Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1995. Abstraction, particularly in the computer age, is one of the most important skills anyone can develop. Separating the principle from the thing, seeing alternative uses for the thing based on the underlying…
