Snapper In Clear Water
A tiny clip of an Australasian snapper Pagrus auratus swimming above seaweeds in extraordinarily clear water.
Murky Washing Machine
Very dirty water at Goat Island … still a pleasant dive in a washing machine (constant swell which means a lot of movement underwater). With basically nobody else in the water I had all the snappers to myself and the eagle ray was not nervous at all.
On Predestination, Free Will And Love
Let’s help ourselves with the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle: We can measure either the position or the momentum of a quantum particle. The more accurately we measure one, the less accurately we can measure the other and vice versa. The same can perhaps be applied to the predestination of God, who is not bound by time, […]
Clear Waters Of Waikato River
Clear green waters of Waikato River between Lake Taupo and Huka Falls. Location: Waikato, New Zealand Season: Winter
End of the Christian World
Throughout the West, Christianity appears to have collapsed. Never in modern history have Christian ideas about human dignity and personhood, about the permanency of morals and the necessity of familial society, been pushed so far from law and public life. This ‘secularizing’ trend shows no sign of abating. What, however, is the significance of this […]
Life As A Mission
The problem of evil is not a theoretical puzzle to be explained away, but rather, as part of one’s mission, it is a problem that is meant to be solved: by avoiding it at all costs and drowning it with good acts, striving to reinforce the presence of God in this world. — from Salt […]