Randy Ridenour

Reelizer, is a collection of movie art by Roger Erik Tinch.

Roger Williams, founder of the first Baptist church in America, writing in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644): The civil sword may make a nation of hypocrites, but it shall never make one true Christian.

I love teaching.

It’s rare that I can write a post about Emacs and be able to claim some expertise — and by “rare” I mean that this is the first time ever.

This is one of those posts to remind me of a solution to a rarely occurring problem.

In his Baptist News Global piece, “Here’s what the Churches of Christ and MAGA have in common,” Richard T.

I’ve often wondered why the administration continues to make claims that are laughably and provably false, such as Trump’s claim that one of his prominent critics, Gov.

I do not like taking attendance in class.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Jennifer Finney Boylan, in The Washington Post: It’s moral imagination that has provided me with some solace, these past six months, as I try to understand the sense of fear that people like me appear to trigger in others.

The Christian right is dead, but the religious right is stronger than it’s ever been.

Not to know is bad, not to want to know is worse.

In a post titled “Is Emacs Hard to Configure” on his blog Irreal, JCS discusses the oft-heard complaint that Emacs is difficult to configure.

You are never under obligation to preach a great sermon, but you are eternally obligated to grapple with great ideas.

This is another one of those days when I realized that I have been doing things the hard way.

I’ve always loved the idea of Tecosaur’s Emacs Everywhere, but when I looked at the code it seemed like quite a bit of overhead for someone who just uses one operating system.

I have finished converting the old Hugo blog to the new org-publish format.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

This blog has been through many different versions.

I saw this on the internet months ago, but can’t remember the source: And if ‘indoctrinating’ students truly existed, I would have classes with 100% assignment turn-in rates, no one ever attempting to get on a cell phone, and I would never need to repeat…

I found some some new functions for automating Hugo in Emacs, that I was able to modify slightly to fit my own needs.

I wrote a 2017 post describing how I code Venn diagrams in LaTeX with TikZ.

Org mode is particularly useful for its ability to easily export to many other file formats.

Compiling LaTeX documents can be a chore, especially if the document has a table of contents, bibliographic references, cross-references, or labels.

We had our annual Reformation Sunday gathering at the local German restaurant.

I’m trying to automate LaTeX compilation from Emacs as much as I can.

When I include everything I do over my breaks in summer and January, I probably work more from my home computer than I do my office computer.

This post is not about arguments that occur on the internet, but about how to display philosophical/logical arguments in standard form on the internet.

When trying to post to a journal for the first time in an embarrassing number of months, I received an error that I had never had in the past: “org-capture-select-template: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-mks.”

Triune God, In those times that we feel alone, lost in the crowd, and disconnected from those around us, we take comfort in knowing that at the center of reality is an unending community of love, and that we, your children, have been invited into the eter…

I feel a bit better today after a close reading of both the Aetna and the AFLAC policies.

My faith doesn’t give me all the answers; it gives me a way to ask the questions.

This is a Christmas communion hymn, titled “A Gift for Us.”

My latest song: VERSE 1: I-40 East, on a cloudy day, Memphis up ahead, had to get away; Had nothing in mind Just looking for a place to roam.

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak.

In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky uses the slanting rays of the sun to represent the love of God that can flow through each of us, transforming lives as we interact with each other with genuine love.

Delivered on February 14, 2018 at NorthHaven Church, Norman, Oklahoma.

I just saw an internet meme that said, “Not a single Democrat voted to lower your taxes — let that sink in for a moment.”

Holy God, We come to you bearing many things.

I bought an entire book for these two paragraphs, but they are worth much more than I paid: "Rabbi Tarfon would say: You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Holy God, Thank you for the one who offends me, for in offense my heart is laid bare and my idols are revealed.

God of Hope, I claim to be person of faith, yet live as a person of fear.

Holy God, In my haste to be heard, give me the strength to slow down, think carefully, and measure my words.

It’s been longer than usual since I made a redesign of the web site.

It is finals week here at Oklahoma Baptist University.

What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation: a distrust of the abstract, a sense of human dependence on the grace of God, and a knowledge…

Loving God, Despair or hope?

(Mosaic: Carrying the Cross of Christ by Gabriel Loire)1 It is a sign that we cannot really understand what it means for God to die, that we remember this day when truth and beauty hung upon a cross and we call it good.

This day of the church calendar, Maundy Thursday, gets its name from John 13:34, which, in the Latin Vulgate, begins with “mandatum novum” — a new commandment.