In his book, 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson’s second rule is, “Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.” Basically, it means you should take care of yourself, respect yourself, and see yourself—despite all your faults and fears—as someone worthy of a good life. If you do that, then you will make better…
A couple of months ago, Andy Walsh contacted me and asked if I would do a book review of his upcoming book, Faith Across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Science. I agreed, but quite honestly, I was a bit hesitant. Yes, over the past three years I have written quite a lot about the creation/evolution…
In my last post, I discussed Jordan Peterson’s first rule in his book 12 Rules for Life: “Stand up straight, with your shoulders back.” In that chapter, he used the example of a lobster to make a rather obvious, but often over-looked point: life is full of challenges, and you are bound to find yourself…
We now come to addressing the first of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. His first rule (and hence the title of his first chapter) is Stand up straight with your shoulders back. When it comes right down to it, this rule is fairly straightforward: it is telling you to be prepared to take life…
Based on Jordan Peterson’s various lectures and debates, if I was to crystalize what I felt he was really all about at a fundamental level, it would have to be these two things: (1) Peterson really, really does not like it when people hold a blind allegiance to any particular ideology—he sees that as dehumanizing…
Now that summer is coming to a close, my son will soon be back in school and I will be getting back into my routine as an adjunct instructor at my local university, as well as to being able to get back to writing on my blog with a bit more consistency again. In addition…
Over the past four months, I have written precisely one blogpost related to Ken Ham, AiG, or young earth creationism. That’s right—only one. The reason why is fairly simple: after 2 ½ years of writing about it, I finally got to the point where there wasn’t much else to say. When it is all said…
On the 20th day of Ab (mid-late August) Titus ordered his army to raise the banks further against the upper city, on the west side of the city over against the royal palace. It was at this time that the Idumean commanders who had allied themselves with Simon ben-Gioras throughout the war conspired to surrender…
The lower city had been largely taken earlier. The Temple Mount was now in Roman hands, and the Temple itself had been burned to the ground. All throughout the Temple precincts there were over 10,000 Jewish bodies littering the ground, and the entire day had been filled with a cacophony of Roman cries of victory…
Every day the zealots, although holed up within the inner court of the Temple, fought off the Roman soldiers who were at the gates and on the banks. Then, on the 27th day of Tamuz (mid-July), the zealots hatched yet another plot. They filled the western cloister with dried material, and then in sight of…