Stuff I’ve Written
Below are links to some of the more interesting bits and pieces I’ve written over the last several years, most recent first:
- Quotes and notes on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (Dec 2011)
- Book review of The Biblical Mandate for Caring for Creation, a book by Dick Tripp and published by my friend Matthew Bartlett. (Dec 2011)
- Luth3r hacks iChurch describes how the iconoclast hacker Mart1n Luth3r hacked iChurch and proceeded to make the Bible open source. (Aug 2011)
- The One True BDFL: If your favourite programming language has a creator and a Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), why shouldn’t life itself? (Feb 2011)
- A brief history of Hoyt looks at where my family name came from. (Sep 2010)
- Workers unite, farmers fight! I wrote for Prism Magazine to give a brief overview of the 1913 waterfront strikes in Wellington and how they almost turned into civil war in New Zealand. (Jan 2007)
- Welcome to Sudan, a story I wrote after visiting Franci in Khartoum, Sudan for two weeks. (Dec 2004)
- Preaching and Politics, an article I wrote for the Wairarapa Times Age in response to a local athiest’s written attack on an 11-year-old friend’s letter to the editor. (Sep 2004)
- Rugby vs Golf presents very serious rational and theological reasons for the superiority of the less holey sport. (Aug 2003)
- The New Perspective on Sam is something of a satire I wrote when the “New Perspective on Paul” was a hot topic at church. It was also published in the Feb 2003 issue of Stimulus. (Oct 2002)
- Prince of Peace, a poem I wrote in my last year of high school. (Sep 1999)
Copyright: The works above are © Ben Hoyt under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, which means you can copy and share them freely, as long as you link back to benhoyt.com, don’t make money with them, and don’t alter the content. Enjoy!