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Create Your own Drag and Drop File Sharing Service

darryl — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:58 +0000

I found this tip from LifeHacker useful. My web host gives me unlimited storage, and all the other drag and drop file sharing services have some limitations (size of file uploaded, total space available, etc), so this gives me a …

Out of the Silent Planet

darryl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +0000

C. S. Lewis’ 1938 Sci-Fi novel Out of the Silent Planet chronicles the voyage of three men, two of whom are partnering for their own reasons and a lone philologist on a walking tour who happens to be in the …

Herding the Elephants

darryl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:53:24 +0000

Via Herding the Elephants | The Cripplegate “With all the digital ink that’s been spilled surrounding The Elephant Room 2, it’s been difficult (and a bit wearisome!) trying to keep up with everything. I thought that I would give it …

Aslan at the stone table

darryl — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:24 +0000

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book chronologically in the Chronicles of Narnia (although it was the first book published). It traces the discovery of the magical world of Narnia by the Pevensies not long after …

One another in James 4-5

darryl — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:41:21 +0000

I’ve been reading through James over the last few days and I was struck by three “one another” statements in chapters four and five. James 4:11 says “Do not speak against one another,” and James 5:9 tells us “Do not complain …

Quotes from Surprised by Joy

darryl — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:21:04 +0000

Last week I read “Surprised by Joy” by C. S. Lewis. On Monday I posted a synopsis of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. I wanted to follow this up with some of my favorite quotes from the book which …

C. S. Lewis’s conversion from atheism

darryl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:18:46 +0000

C. S. Lewis traces his conversion story through his autobiography “Surprised by Joy” from his early childhood through to his conversion to Christ as an adult. As the story unfolds, he traces the “aesthetic experience” of “joy” as an experience that …

Listen to all your favorite speakers

darryl — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:04:14 +0000

Last week I posted about listening to audiobooks, sermons, lectures and interviews from around the internet. As I mentioned, there are a heap of resources to consume. And that is a problem. How do you whittle down what you do …

Playtime is over

darryl — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:20:37 +0000

Via Christian Apologetics. This is a good quote from William Lane Craig. Apologetics is note the lone answer to the difficulties facing the church (and I don’t think Craig would agree say it is), but certainly churches need to be …

Issues with Theistic evolution

darryl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:52 +0000

I’ve previously expressed my reservations about theistic evolution. Recently, I was interested to hear some new reasoning against it in this interview with Jay Richards Jay Richards (who co-wrote the Privileged Planet) has recently edited a book (God and Evolution) …