North America Article · 3 min read
The morning after a padlocked gate on SE Woodstock, driving back down the same street to collect my car, I looked up and found a church that had been named for the occasion.
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Food & Cooking Article · 6 min read
The kitchen here is doing something genuinely uncommon — 100% grass-fed and finished beef, a menu built to be taken apart and rebuilt. Then some time after nine they padlocked the back gate with my car still behind it, and that is why this entry has one star instead of four.
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Food & Cooking Article · 6 min read
A New York Steamer ordered "fully involved," a hot sauce bar named after the founders' own father, and the case for why a sandwich chain's branding can be this good and its app can still be this bad.
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Food & Cooking Article · 3 min read
A hand-sized dome of almond cake and mirror glaze, a few doors down from lunch — the kind of pastry that looks too good to cut into and tastes better than it looks.
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Food & Cooking Article · 5 min read
A steak yaya roll and a fried fish taco to close out a Sunday food crawl at a Vancouver institution I've been driving twenty-five minutes to for years — and a case for why the happy hour burger, with a little-known sauce most people never ask about, might be the better order.
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Food & Cooking Article · 2 min read
Third stop of the day, twenty minutes after lunch — and a case for why "adventurous" isn't automatically the same thing as "better," at least where ice cream is concerned.
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Food & Cooking Article · 5 min read
A grilled panini of prosciutto and brie on the boulangerie's own baguette, eaten at a sidewalk table in downtown Lake Oswego — worth traveling across the city for, and I did.
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Food & Cooking Article · 9 min read
A tray, a bowl of hot water underneath to keep it warm, and a whipped egg-yolk foam dusted with cocoa — Vietnam's answer to tiramisu in a cup, plus a whole rotating board of specialty drinks worth its own second visit.
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Food & Cooking Article · 11 min read
A brand-new location on SE 3rd Way, a Double-Double taken apart and rebuilt with pickle brine and pepper juice, and an argument for why nothing else in fast food beats In-N-Out on the ratio that actually matters.
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Food & Cooking Article · 1 min read
A first entry, and a plain statement of what this notebook is for — roads, tables, and the honest verdict on both.
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Food & Cooking Article · 8 min read
Three slices of pork in a Hokkaido miso broth, in a strip-mall shop behind a Japanese grocery in Beaverton — and the best bowl of ramen I have eaten on this coast.
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Religious History Article · 6 min read
The scientist wrote more on Scripture than on physics — his Daniel & Revelation, his textual criticism of the Johannine Comma, his chronology, and his hidden anti-Trinitarianism, handled honestly.
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Hebrew Scriptures Article · 5 min read
The elastic Hebrew word yom, the sunless first days and the open seventh, and the ordinary-day, day-age, and literary-framework readings — with their pedigrees, no vote cast.
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Translations Article · 4 min read
The name of God — the four letters behind “the LORD,” why almost every Bible hides it, and the choice between “the LORD,” “Yahweh,” and “Jehovah.”
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Greek New Testament Article · 14 min read
John 1:1 and the deity of Christ — the Greek of the missing article, “firstborn of all creation,” the Angel of Jehovah, and the whole argument laid out on both sides.
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Manuscripts & Scrolls Article · 2 min read
The Masoretic source text, the canon question, the Ethiopian exception, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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