Here are the posts Google Analytics said were most popular this year. Hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did writing them. 1. NIV 2011: Every Last Change – Surprisingly the most popular post of the year was my programmatic assessment of changes between the NIV(1984), tNIV(2005), and NIV(2011). 2. Why You Need a Technology
Yearly Archive:: 2010
Is 30 The Breaking Point for Technology?
Computer scientist Alan Kay (the guy who invented the stackable-windows computer interface we all use today) once defined technology as “anything invented after you were born” to make the point that people usually don’t consider “old” things like automobiles or chairs to be technology. For my parents, 8-track tapes were technology, but they aren’t for
Nativity Scenes: A Broken Commandment or a Medium of Theology?
A few weeks before Christmas, my teacher gave me and everyone in my fifth grade class just enough dough to make a single Christmas ornament. Sneaky kid that I was, I went around to each of my classmates’ desks and snatched a little chunk of their dough, eventually amassing enough to make the complete nativity
Balancing The Natural and the Unnatural in a Technological World
When I reflect on technology and modern life, I find myself continually returning to these ancient words from God to Adam: Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. (Gen 2:15) Augmented Reality The word that usually gets all the attention in this passage is “cultivate” (it even has its own conference!), and it forms the
I Marginalize My Father Through Technology
From Blog to Book in Two Years: What I Learned
Happy Birthday, this November marks the 2 year anniversary of Don’t Eat the Fruit! In November 2008, I decided to start this blog as a fun way to catalog what I was reading and learning about how technology relates to theology and culture. Since then it’s been a rather interesting ride, and I thought I’d
NIV 2011: Every Last Change
After posting about the NIV 2010/2011 on Monday, I decided to put together a change list. At the same time, another coder Robert Slowley left a comment saying that he also prepared a website with a detailed change set. Here are the two links: NIV 2010/2011 changes (by John Dyer) Robert Slowley’s comparison (includes several great
NIV 2011: The Little Changes
UPDATE This post doesn’t deal with the gender issues of the new NIV – it only looks at other mostly overlooked changes. I’ve also done an analysis of every single change change from NIV-tNIV-NIV2011 here: NIV2011 Changes The Bible is my favorite use of the technology of writing, so I’m glad to see that the NIV
Windows Phone Reminds You: “Be Here Now”
Around the Web
Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted – Malcolm Gladwell (famed for Outliers, The Tipping Point, Blink, and his wild and crazy hair) contrasts histories great revolutions which involved much personal sacrifice to the easy click-thru activism style change we see online. This Post Was Too Long To Read, So We TL;DR’d It
