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 […]