Current Reading
Last updated on 25 February, 2026
No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
Stranger Theology: The Bible In A Year Journal – Dr. Joel Muddamalle, Luke Rodgers, Nathan Henry
A few guys from church and I are going through a “Bible in a year” plan, using that Stranger Theology journal. I think that book title is a play off of Stranger Things. I’ve never seen the series but I have a prejudicial bias against it (just because), so I don’t want to think that’s the case. Muddamalle was a student of Heiser, although the feel of his website kind of turns me off I expect some decent scholarship from him.
Current Writing
Last updated on 2 January, 2026
Last update here was in May last year, but there’s been very slow progress. The rate has increased, though: I recently joined a critique exchange site and getting my short stories reviewed. I have a good few dozen of varying lengths, and some more I need to wrap up, but they’ll be released in a new book at some future time. The site also has a forum so I am also writing there and trying not to get into arguments, friendly or otherwise. Opinion-expression is not one of my big things since I don’t feel strongly about a lot of things other people seem to. Those other people in your life I am sure more than make up for my silence. Some contexts require me to be annoying with my opinion, especially through asynchronous channels, like forums, as I am a slow thinker. Writing fiction is one of those contexts. What are some other contexts, you may ask yourself? Great question!
Miscellaneous
Last updated on 2 January, 2026
Nothing much to report here as things will be pretty standard for me in the next few wintery months. I might go on a few cold-weather hikes and bike rides; it’s been a while—I didn’t do anything of the sort last winter. I’m not one of those cold shower or Wim Hof method woo woo proponents; I believe in enough conspiracy theories already, I’m not about to believe in more that have a 0.01% chance of having a 0.01% affect to my life. I just like being in cold weather sometimes.
I was long overdue for reading glasses but I finally got a pair. Is it weird that I am looking forward (hah) to using them daily? It is weird, but they are indispensable to me now for reading anything printed, which is the only way I do books. Speaking of print books, Chan Thomas’ The Adam and Eve Story finally got the re-print treatment, so all those rare original copies from 1965 dropped drastically in price. I also believe the reprint includes all the parts excluded from the CIA’s declassified version. I’m mentioning this because Adam and Eve was the last book I read entirely as an e-book, and that was about 7 or 8 years ago, if that gives you any idea how much I dislike consuming books electronically.