by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 16, 2013 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Earlier this week, an email from my local creation museum informed me that said museum had been refused membership in the area’s Museum Council. I’d spoken to employees and friends of the museum the day that some representatives of the Council had visited,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 10, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, Random Commentary
Though only some remarks after “One final bit of irritation” are relevant to the Pious Eye site’s purpose, I’ve found no review site that will keep something of this length posted. Besides, Pious Eye is also my personal blog (at times, after a...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 5, 2013 | In The News
Christians active in the battle against pornography have lately been excited by news of a not-yet-peer-reviewed Cambridge study popularly reported to prove that “porn addiction” is as real as addiction to drugs or alcohol. When I first heard about this (in...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 9, 2013 | In The News, Random Commentary
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Anyone who knows me knows my conviction that contemporary Americans feel too much and think too little. Lack of “impulse control” isn’t just for the “poorly...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 15, 2012 | In The News
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. U-T San Diego letter writers have continued trying, within the U-T word allowance for letters (125 words per the letter editor’s email to me a while back, though the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 2, 2012 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: The Zombies are Coming! Courtesy Deviant Art user Neo160 under Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. In his Moore to the Point blog, Russell D. Moore suggests an analogy between currently popular zombies and spiritually dead humankind in general:...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 17, 2012 | Random Commentary
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Originally prepared September 2012 (09/17/2012, 11:46 PM, to be excessively precise) as a comment on a Facebook friend’s post.As I don’t have permission to reproduce the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 16, 2012 | Pet Peeves
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Though I’m generally a fan of LifeWay and its publications, I’m disappointed to find its new Gospel Project curriculum* indulging in the weary and misguided “religion...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 1, 2006 | Annotated Quotations, Random Commentary
Image by Flicker user ellenm1, used under Creative Commons CC BY-ND 2.0 license. In his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business, Neil Postman suggested that the rise of television to its central place in contemporary culture...