Sending Fire
I am come to send fire on the earth… Luke 12:49 I cited this verse in my response to a question on Nerdchurch forum on Discord: If you build yourself as an rpg character, what is your class and alignment? My build is: LG cleric of Jesus–with the fire domain, because fireball! I stand by […]
Diamonds and Rocks
[Master Hand] looked down at the pebble again. “A rock is a good thing, too, you know,” he said, speaking less gravely. “If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we’d lead a hard life here. Enjoy illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.” He smiled, but Ged left dissatisfied. (Ursula Le […]
Doing what God Can’t Do
If the rich man would pay the poor man to die for him, the poor man could make a living. Do you love paradoxes? Even a paradox that depends on wordplay can stick like a burr in a wool sock. And a good conceptual paradox hits like ma la numbing hot spice delivered right to […]
Nerds, Fun, and the Kingdom
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds. [Douglas Adams (2005) via azquotes.com] When I tell people I’m with Nerdchurch, maybe a seventh of the time someone asks what a nerd is. How would you […]
Dragons and Owls
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. (Job 30:29) It can be spectacular fun to be a nerd. It can also be intensely lonely. You can understand how nerds exploring the Bible get drawn to the book of Job. It’s dense, mysterious, like picking up a thread on bronze age reddit: […]
Dragons, Owls, and Every One
The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. (Isaiah 43:20) Dragons and owls also appear together in the scroll of Isaiah the prophet, where the LORD provides waters in the […]