The Doctor Is In

Check it out: Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. And this, with the winter sky in time lapse photography: Sub Zero – winter night timelapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Word of my demise, widespread and nefarious as it has been, is most assuredly premature. I must put these scurrilous rumors to rest… But life has been, well, most interesting… The past year or so has been one of the most challenging in many a season, on a number of fronts. Professionally, the passage of [...]

I’ve been incommunicado for a while, in no small part for reasons shortly forthcoming. But lest you be left completely high and dry, here’s a little nugget for you. The WSJ has a book review of Son of Hamas which will definitely be on my reading list when it comes out: Mosab Yousef is the [...]

Here’s wishing you all a very blessed a Merry Christmas! Enjoy your family, the great food, and the time off. And be mindful of its meaning: Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius [...]

    You’ll never look at raindrops the same way again. Check it out. (HT: OrthoCath Blog)

The recent arrest of Roman Polanski for statutory rape with a 13-year-old girl has peeled back the veil covering our cultural decay. Numerous artists, directors, and other Hollywood celebrities and powerbrokers have come out and condemned the arrest, while rationalizing his behavior and condemning what they see as unjust punishment. The public response to this [...]

The following essay was originally posted in June 2005. The story is a true one, although the names have been changed.   They say that hell is hot. Sometimes, however, it is very, very cold. Jim loved Alaska — it had been his home since birth. God’s country: wild, unpredictable, spectacular in beauty–there was no [...]

Third in an ongoing series on grace in Christianity: On Purpose Justification, Sanctification, & Grace   We struggled through some intimidating “God-words” — justification and sanctification – in my previous post, and in the process I lost both of my regular readers, leaving but a few wandering insomniacs whose Ambien prescription had just run short. [...]