All blog Episodes

2024

10/04 - The Birthday Candle Joke
07/19 - Kayaking trips 2024
07/07 - Bioluminescence and Cello Music
06/01 - Cello Recital - Anthem
05/15 - Making Worlds
04/21 - Kayak Camping: Shaw, Lopez, James Islands
04/08 - Exploring the Olympic Pennisula
03/16 - Cello Recital - Vedro con mio Dileto
03/09 - Where does math come from?
02/26 - Is Christianity Exclusive?

2023

12/23 - Kayaking trips 2023
12/19 - Quantum Determinism
12/17 - Cello Recital - R. Vaughan Williams
11/04 - Cello Recital - Cavatina - after a rainy day walk
09/07 - Everybody Believes in the Supernatural
08/04 - Biking Home from the Mountains
07/28 - Kayaking to Lummi Island
07/02 - Hudson's Stay with Us
06/27 - Bethany's Fire Academy Graduation
05/06 - Kayaking Kachess Lake
02/04 - Problems with Standard Cosmology

2022

12/27 - The Dunking Tree
11/26 - God, Man and Jesus
11/24 - Touring St. Edwards Lodge
11/06 - Cello Recital - Debussy & Järnefelt
09/14 - Why I am Still a Christian
09/13 - Christian Theology Details
09/12 - Considering Atheism
09/11 - Considering Islam
09/10 - Considering Judaism
07/23 - Predicting Economics and Evolution
07/10 - Search in Living Systems and Conservation of Information
07/01 - Kayak Camping Ross Lake
06/11 - Kayaking a Marathon
05/10 - My unexpected hospital adventure
01/23 - What is Leadership?
01/18 - What is God's Primary Motivating Value?

2021

12/16 - Two Kinds of Explanations
12/07 - Great Books and Great Authors
12/05 - Darwinian Evolution and the Gaps
12/01 - Except When It Doesn't
11/03 - Kayak Camping: Deception Pass & James Island
09/30 - Reason and the Greatest Commandment
09/26 - End of the long hot summer
09/06 - 2021 Family Vacation
07/20 - Kayak Adventures, High and Low
06/14 - Kayak loop I-90 and 520
06/12 - Following God, Across Time
06/06 - God and Personal Pronouns
05/19 - Book: Return of the God Hypothesis
05/16 - Avoid Spiritual Complexity
04/24 - Kayaking through the Ballard Locks
04/01 - A Story of Larry
03/28 - Science is Limited
03/14 - Replacement Plumbing
02/14 - Unexpected Roof Consequences
02/06 - Snow in California
01/21 - Reasonable Beliefs
01/03 - Adventures of Grampi, Cami and Eli

2020

12/30 - Grovelife website refresh
12/21 - We All Believe Things
12/20 - Cello Recital - Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel
11/13 - Principles vs Good Rules
11/08 - The Commands of Jesus
10/31 - Science and the Lawgiver
10/30 - What is Spirituality?
10/10 - Off-Grid Solar Project
09/27 - How I came to own a 2017 MST and the adventures that ensued therein
07/18 - Cello Recital - Handel Trio Sonata
07/08 - Truth, Not Lies
05/27 - A Question of Purpose
05/14 - A Matter of Scale
05/13 - A Good Bounce
05/04 - The Atheistic God
05/02 - The Multiverse God
04/30 - Genetic programming and evolution
04/14 - What would Jesus do?
04/12 - Fixing buggy human hardware
03/27 - The Probability of Life
02/29 - Cello Recital - Kummer Duet

2019

11/09 - Cello Recital - Elegy & Cradle Song
11/07 - The Expanding Universe
06/18 - Cello Recital - Berceuse & Serenade

2018

12/15 - How should we Love God?
12/11 - Darwinian Metaphysics
11/24 - A Solo Cello Recital - Rachmaninoff Sonata
07/09 - Glider Rides
07/03 - Free Will and Biology

2017

10/19 - Natural Selection is not an Agent
09/29 - Evolution as Fact
02/12 - Jesus calls us to make Disciples, not Converts

2016

2015

2013

12/08 - Cello Recital - Sicilienne & Summertime

2012

12/16 - A new cello, and Oblivion performance
09/07 - Highly Complex Genome
05/12 - A bear? Over there!
04/16 - What is a Value System?
04/04 - Kayaking by Nisqually Wildlife
04/01 - Kayaking Upstream

2011

11/12 - A new cello, and a Rachmaninoff performance
05/25 - Our Obedience
05/15 - How are People Saved?
04/19 - Adventure on the Sammamish River Slough
02/05 - State Edwards Seminary Tour

2010

05/19 - Motivation and Christianity
05/16 - The Significance of the Blood
05/16 - Understanding Sin
04/06 - Atheists and morality
03/30 - Why the value system of God matters
03/20 - A Passion for God
02/02 - Jesus describes love

2009

10/19 - A Story of Forgiveness
09/10 - I did get an iPhone
07/09 - What law?
07/08 - They Got the Gospel
07/06 - Berry Season!
04/18 - Tax collectors and a mindset of learning
03/29 - Forgiving like Jesus

2008

05/24 - Park Afternoon
05/02 - Squirrel Diversity
04/26 - Cognitive Surplus & Sharing of Creativity
04/18 - April Snows

2007

12/25 - Christmas with Family
11/10 - Developing My Origins World View
11/05 - Hiking the Chief at Squamish
10/31 - Evolutionary Definition of Species
10/29 - What is Evolution? What is Love?
10/25 - Convincing Nay-sayers of Evolution?
09/03 - The year of the Berries
07/08 - Checking out the iPhone
06/10 - Larry Graduates!
05/21 - Alan Starts at Philips
04/12 - My Last Class
04/02 - Religion & Society
01/29 - Fiber, Fever & a New Class

2006

12/20 - Family Newsletter 2006
12/15 - Power: A Big Wind Storm
12/13 - Performance Appraisals at Work
12/06 - My Uncle Stan's Passing
11/18 - Christian Response to AIDs
11/07 - Global Warming Decided?
11/02 - Seattle Correctness
08/06 - What is Vacation?
08/06 - Summer is Busy
06/04 - Alan going to Clarkston
04/20 - Austin's character doodle
04/10 - Book of Matthew summary
03/29 - Luther College Orchestra
03/19 - Lake Quinault
03/09 - Problems in the World of Science
03/04 - View of Mt. Rainier
02/24 - Granite Carvings
02/09 - Competitive Origins World Views
02/07 - The Answers of Science
02/04 - Regarding virus emails
02/03 - What is Science?

2005

12/08 - Serving God vs Killing
11/24 - A Promise

2003

10/03 - Eulogy for my Dad