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- Sonderbare Bettgenossen 2022-09-01Gedanken über eine interessante Gemeinsamkeit zwischen konservativ-fundamentalistischen, vor allem evangelikalen Christen einerseits und „woken,“ „progressiv“-fundamentalistischen Aktivisten andererseits.
- „Kulturelle Aneignung” als Vorwurf? 2022-08-22«Kulturelle Aneignung ist wohl die wichtigste Kulturtechnik, die ein friedliches Zusammenwachsen möglich macht.»
- Humans are either Female or Male 2022-08-21The novel term nonbinary implies a refusal to be classified as either male or female; it is thus a denial of a foundational aspect of human nature as both Scripture and science untainted by political correctness affirm it.
- National Conservatism? 2022-08-20In “Against National Conservatism” First Things has Peter Leithart writing about the Edmund Burke Foundation’s “National Conservatism Statement of Principles“ …
- Regulative and Normative Principles 2022-08-18When it comes to the life of the church some ideas and practices are condemned in Scripture; others are commended or even commanded. Where neither is the case, each congregation or denomination has the freedom to make prudential decisions under the authority of Scripture; we should respect each other’s decisions even when we disagree.
- My “Glittering Image” would shatter … 2022-08-18This sad case really has me scratching my head. I do not understand how anyone can tell themselves that wishing to “molest, abuse, rape & reuse” children (or anyone, for that matter) is not sinful and disqualifying from Christian ministry.
- The New, “Progressive” Public Morality 2022-08-16People who follow and champion the new “progressive” public morality typically view themselves as good, moral people; attacking their motives will neither turn society around, nor protect our children, nor conribute to reaching them for Christ.
- The Woke Disney Company? 2022-08-15Reent Disney movies have featured gay couples, a child with two mothers but no father, and even a gay kiss. Why can’t Disney stick to producing great content, family films which champion what is good, true, beautiful, and universal?
- Wer sagt die Wahrheit? 2022-08-07Eine FB-Freundin fragt, “Wer sagt die Wahrheit?” Die Antwort lautet: Wahrscheinlich stimmen beide Aussagen. Aber die CNN-Überschrift verschweigt infamerweise den vorangegangenen Raketenbeschuß Israels durch den Islamischen Dschihad.
- To the Making of Many Books there is No End 2022-08-06For the most part I have stopped buying printed books. eBooks have many advantages; not least that when the time comes my heirs won’t have to worry about where to find space for my library.
- Obszöner Reichtum 2024-01-0945 Millionen für ein Gemälde kann man nicht als „Abzocke“ bezeichnen, wenn man dieses dann um 450 Millionen wieder verkauft — aber solche Preise für Kunstwerke, die eigentlich in einem Museum hängen sollten, sind Symptome obszönen Reichtums.
- Christtag 2023-12-25Tagesgebet für den dritten Christtag, aus dem Allgemeinen Gebetbuch
- Vierter Adventsonntag 2023-12-24Tagesgebet für den vierten Adventsonntag, aus dem Allgemeinen Gebetbuch
- Dritter Adventsonntag 2023-12-17Tagesgebet für den dritten Adventsonntag, aus dem Allgemeinen Gebetbuch
- Als der verlorene Sohn wieder rückfällig wurde … 2023-12-16Fast genau fünf Jahre, nachdem er das erste Mal nach Hause zurückgekehrt war, leerte der verlorene Sohn sein Bankkonto, packte ein paar Kleidungswechsel und schlich sich wieder in das ferne Land.
- Achtung: Amazon-Gutschein Betrugsversuch 2023-12-10Telefonische Rückfragen, scheinbar von Amazon bezüglich eines teuren Gutscheins, den Du angeblich bestellt hast, sind ein Betrugsversuch, ganz egal, welche vertraulichen Informationen der Anrufer zu besitzen scheint.
- Gewalttätige Siedler im Westjordanland zerstören Israels Glaubwürdigkeit 2023-12-10Wenn Israel die Gewakt jüdischer Siedler gegen Palästinenser im Westjordanland ignoriert, statt dagegen vorzugehen, sinkt es auf das moralische Niveau seiner Feinde und riskiert die Unterstützung seiner Freunde.
- Zweiter Adventsonntag 2023-12-10Tagesgebet für den zweiten Adventsonntag, aus dem Allgemeinen Gebetbuch
- Segenslied der Woche 2023-12-04Ein YouTube Kanal, „Segenslied der Woche“, befriedigt meine Nostalgie …
- Multikulti und Integration 2023-11-30Derzeit macht wieder einmal ein mehr als zwanzig Jahre alter Text die Runde auf den sozialen Medien, der im Lauf der Jahre schon verschiedenen Promis zugeschrieben wurde, darunter Donald Trump und der ehemaligen australischen Premierministerin Julia Gillard.
- Child Sacrifice: not just in Uvalde, etc. 2022-05-31It is very easy to be consumed by the horror and tragedy of the Uvalde school shooting while forgetting the horror of legal abortion for any reason, both in the US and most Wester countries.
- Austria, Russia’s Tunnel Into the Heart of Europe? 2022-04-20In an article in the “New Statesman” entitled “Austria is Russia’s tunnel into the heart of Europe” Liam Hoare writes, “The country’s attachment to neutrality has led it to cultivate obsequious relations with Russian energy and espionage,” and elaborates further on the cozy relationship between Austria and first the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation. I ...
- Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! 2022-04-17Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! The Easter Anthems from the Anglican Liturgy 1 Corinthians 5.7b, 8; Romans 6.9–11; 1 Corinthians 15.20–22 (ESV)
- The Sudden Moral Outrage at Russian Oligarchs 2022-04-07It’s hard to know what to make of the moral outrage of this “personal assistant to oligarchs” which causes him to hang up on his clients when they want to whine about the pain the sanctions cause them and come with various demands—how much of his unwillingness to do their bidding is in fact ...
- Backing up GMAIL with GMvault 2022-03-21In addition to wanting a local backup of my Gmail data, Google is terminating the free edition of Google Workspace (previously Google Apps, then G Suite) this spring which means I need to migrate my family’s e-mail accounts to other providers. After some research I settled on the Python script GMVAULT.
- Pastor, What Were You Thinking? 2022-03-18I am borrowing the title for this post from an article by Joe McKeever in Christianity Today’s ChurchLeaders website which I read yesterday. He lists a number of missteps by unidentified pastors which reflect well publicized real-life events of recent months and years, and which resulted in an end to the ministry, career, and often ...
- Consecration to the “Immaculate Heart of Mary”? 2022-03-16The Catholic News Agency reports that on March 25 Pope Francis will consecrate the Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and in another article explains what exactly this means. As an Evangelical open to reconciliation with other Christian traditions this saddens me.
- “The Russians” are not the enemy! 2022-03-03On social media, in addition to many positive posts and comments of support for Ukraine, and the rather annoying comments from Putin’s defenders, there are unfortunately also comments which condemn and castigate “the Russians” and hold them responsible for the disaster happening in Ukraine.
- Ukraine Invasion: Idle Speculation 2022-03-03In the days since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine I have come across some comments from fellow Christians which leave me scratching my head. I want to address two ideas from these comments.
- “Complete” Creedal Formulae? 2022-02-05The suggestion that creedal formulae must be complete implies that theology is valid only insofar as it penetrates every mystery, or to the extent that nothing remains hidden from it so it can come up with complete formulations of truth. A brief caveat to an article by Peter Leithart.
Hier werde ich, nach Maßgabe der verfügbaren Zeit, meine Facebook-Beiträge sammeln, damit sie leichter zugänglich sind.
Here I will collect, as time allows, my Facebook posts, to have them more accessible.
- Feindliche Übernahme: Mein Facebook-Konto wurde von Hackern geklaut! 2024-06-12Mein Facebook-Konto wurde Opfer einer feindlichen Übernahme — es wurde von Hackern geklaut! Was habe ich daraus gelernt?
- Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
- Wolfabschuß in Kärnten 2023-06-02Bin ich froh, daß ich nicht in Kärnten wohn’ — ich halt’ mich nämlich auch unmittelbar neben, und sogar in, von Menschen genutzten Gebäuden auf …
- Social Engineering in Fernsehserien 2023-06-02Ich kann gut verstehen, daß viele Christen ein Problem haben mit den heutigen Fernsehangeboten. Ich hab mich hier ja schon öfters auf die deutschen Fernsehserien bezogen, die ich an sich recht interessant finde. Mir ist schon öfter aufgefallen, daß diese Serien “social engineering” betreiben, und zwar im Sinne einer progressiven Sexualmoral (oder -unmoral): Homosexualität ist o.k., ...
- Lies vs Bullshit 2023-06-02In 2016, during the pesidential contest between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, in which both candidates were caught making untrue statements, I characterized the difference between them as follows: When Clinton tells untruths she knows what the truth is and is consciously saying something else — just like most of us when we lie. Trump, on the ...
- On the subject of ChatGPT 2023-05-31“Language models are trained to predict the next word,” said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper’s authors. “They are not trained to tell people they don’t know what they’re doing.” The result is bots that act like precocious people-pleasers, making up answers ...
- Mentalitätsunterschiede? 2023-05-29“24h Polizei im Einsatz”, eine aktuelle Serie auf puls24 TV die Grazer Polizisten auf ihren Einsätzen begleitet, ist genauso interessant, wie die deutschen Serien “Auf Streife” und “Ruhrpottwache” — aber auf ganz andere Weise. Teilweise liegt das sicher am Ansatz (die Deutschen stellen Einsätze mit teilweise tatsächlichen Polizisten und anderen Ersthelfern nach, die Grazer begleiten ...
- USA: Problems with super long trains 2023-05-28When we were living in Plano, TX in 1984-1989 trains would regularly cut the town in half; as soon as the sound of a train whistle was heard, cars started racing along Avenue K to get to a crossing before the train blocked all crossings for half an hour. And this was not rural Texas, ...
- Russell Moore on Tim Keller, and other stuff. 2023-05-25Russell Moore is editor of Christianity Today. This is his weekly newsletter. Link to sign up to it is at the bottom. Moore to the Point
- Salzburger Katastrophen-Koalition 2023-05-24Wie man hört plant Wilhelm Haslauer in Salzburg eine Koalition mit der FPÖ — wohl ein Vorbote dessen, was uns im Fall einer Doskozil-SPÖ auf Bundesebene bevorsteht. Man sieht daß, wenn es um Machterhalt geht, Schwarze (bzw Türkise) und Rote ziemlich gleich agieren und nicht den gebührenden Abstand zur ausländerfeindlichen Kickl-Partie halten.
Hier gibt es gelegentlich eher technisch orientierte Beiträge, vor allem auf Englisch, da dies meine „Technik-Sprache“ ist.
Here I will post the occasional technical note, mostly in English since that is the language I mostly work in.
- Michael Connely Book List 2024-11-10A comprehensive list of Michael Connelly’s novels, identifying title, publication year, the series and the main characters.
- Win11: Stop Taskbar Auto-hiding 2024-11-09On a newly installed Windows 11 machine I recently had the problem that the taskbar would auto-hide despite the feature being turned off. Some searching in Google identified the cause and provided the solution: There is another setting in Taskbar Setting → Taskbar Behaviors, called “Optimize taskbar for touch interactions“. Apparently that gets turned on automatically ...
- Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5 2024-06-24I am starting a project to install Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5.
- Through Theology In One Year 2024-06-24I am just starting to watch a video podcast series called “Through Theology In One Year”, and found a way to reverse the playlist to watch the episodes in the correct order.
- Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
- Upgrade Windows 11 Home to Pro using an OEM key 2023-10-18Using an OEM key to upgrade Windows Home to Pro is not as straightforward as using a Retail key, but it can be done, and at least in Europe is perfectly legal.
- Forgetting Backups can be Disastrous 2023-10-16With hard disks / SSDs now frequently soldered to the mainboard you can’t take them with you when your computer breaks. All the more important is is to consider and implement some sort of backup.
- Linux Mint Mate: Menu Scripting 2023-07-07I have been playing around with the Mate menus.
- Google Translate has become almost usable 2023-05-19I am really impressed with the progress Google Translate has made. After a disppointing experiment a few years ago, yesterday it produced a passable translation of a theological article.
- Google Translate ist ziemlich brauchbar geworden 2023-05-19Ich bin schwer beeindruckt von den Fortschritten, die Google Translate gemacht hat. Nach einem enttäuschenden Versuch vor ein paar Jahren habe ich gestern eine ziemlich brauchbare Übersetzung erhalten.