A joyful Christmas to all my readers.
I’ve noted before that one of my favourite carols is Adam lay y-bounden.At the risk of increasing some Protestants’ blood-pressure, here are the words in full:
Adam lay ybounden,Bounden in a bond;Four thousand winterThought he not too long.And all was for an apple,An apple that he took,As clerkës finden writtenIn [...]
I begin this third post looking at Piper’s critique of Wright with an attempt at a longish summary quotation. (You can find the first post here, and the second here.) I have tried to mark off the main line of his thought, and used ellipses to mark missing material.
It has seemed to most interpreters of [...]
A couple of weeks ago I disagreed with Michael Halcomb about dismissing the early extra-canonical tradition that Jesus was born in a cave. (His response is here, and my further one here.) I still wish to take the cave tradition seriously as possible historical evidence. I was therefore intrigued to come across (HT Jim West) [...]
Here’s the third and last of my Christmas photo-editing tips. Remember my disclaimer: none of these are original. But they’re all non-destructive, which means you can go back and change your mind at any time. This particular technique works extremely well both for noisy photos, and ones where you want to sharpen different areas selectively. [...]
