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Pointing fingers at someone else and highlighting their sins, particularly if they are sins I'm unlikely to ever commit, is safe. It's a bit less comfortable to look in the mirror and see the ways I'm falling short, and it takes work to fix that. It's the whole thing about "let him without sin...

There's a depressing amount of so-called "worship" music around these days that's either theologically thin to useless, or places most if not all of the focus on man. But then people start to protest because, you know, they love that song, so whether it's pleasing to God gets lost in the mix...

Cellphones and computers are as much about avoiding blue light as anything else. Without knowing what might be causing insomnia it's hard to suggest a solution. The standard approach is to make sure your room is dark and cool, avoid doing things in your bedroom that should be done elsewhere...

Sooner or later it makes sense to take responsibility for your own protection. Sharing with some other party makes sense but when sharing becomes abdication it leaves you at the mercy of the other party. That's hardly a prophetic statement.

My wife and I have been attending a new church for the last several weeks. I know all churches have problems but so far we haven't specifically seen them at this church. The pastor appears receptive to our thoughts and we recently had dinner with one of the elders and his wife, and they seem...

From a child protection standpoint the point is to make sure people who have abused children in the past are denied the chance to do it again, as far as is possible. That's the legal aspect of it. From a Christian perspective we'd also want to make sure someone teaching the kids knows the...

Adherence to Biblical standards might be nice but it's unrealistic to expect people who don't accept the Bible as being relevant to accept it as a guide book for their life.

Ironically I think a major problem with doing this is the actual implementation. If you've ever tried to do anything involving children you'll undoubtedly know about the assorted background checks that are done to nominally weed out the ones who shouldn't be working with children. The trouble...

It's a tired tactic, you can find bad apples in any group once it gets big enough. If someone pointed at a black criminal as "evidence" all black people were criminals they'd rightly be laughed into silence by anyone with a working brain cell. But people do like to tar large groups based on the...

Yesterday I could tell I've mostly kicked whatever this is because the cold wind chilled me slightly on the outside but didn't leave me feeling chilled to the bone. I still have stuffy sinuses but it's moved past the phase of being sick with it and into the phase of being sick of it. At this...

Technically I suppose it's just adding sodium to the mixture. If you have calcium carbonate in your water and treat it with sodium chloride you'd end up with sodium carbonate and calcium chloride, which are both soluble in water. When a softener cycles it dumps a load of stuff out of its drain...

I think I've come down with much the same thing. I thought it was just a bit of sinus trouble but wasn't feeling great yesterday and still not feeling great. Yesterday I bundled up and dragged myself around enough of my walk to get 10,000 steps - I cut it short because I didn't need the full...

These are good points. You could look to get a water softener to remove the hardness, or use bottled water so you don't get all the gunk. For what it's worth the air washer I described earlier is an evaporative device. It blows air over water in the fins which naturally washes dust out of the...

Yesterday I did a walk because we had a friend over and ended up having a late lunch, and I didn't have time to let lunch digest before running because we also had a dinner invitation. Today and tomorrow will probably also be walks because we're expecting gale force winds, and I really don't...

Many years ago I had an air washer that worked very well. It was essentially a big stack of plastic circles with fins on them that rotated through a bath of water, and had a fan blowing air down over the whole mechanism. The idea was that it washed dust, pollen etc out of the air and naturally...

I did another slow run today. I'm getting better at running slowly although it still feels like a constant battle against the urge to increase the pace. One newly acquired issue is that I've developed a desire to run hard at the hills to get them over with, but that's not a good way to keep my...

Curious, I've never seen one of those before (the image came through fine, thanks!) I'm not sure how many hooks I'd need to put into ceiling joists to be able to support the weight of the radiator without them ripping out of the joists and I'd need a pretty heavy duty rope to take the weight of...

When you refer to a come along, what does that look like? I'm wondering if it's a contraption I haven't come across or if I'd call it something else. The gist of the problem is a radiator, maybe 18 inches square and nearly six feet wide, standing on six legs that rest on small wooden plinths...

The last few days have been too cold or windy to run so I walked my regular loop. Today my suggested workout was VO2 max intervals but I didn't feel like doing that (truth be told I didn't feel like running at all today) so I made an effort to keep my speed down. I've been struggling with that...

I considered laying it down but that requires a lot of control. Wheel width isn't something I can change because I'm using pre-made wheeled platforms. I tried making my own but the wheels I can get are either so big I can't hoist the radiator high enough to get them into place, or too weak to...