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[This is a re-post from a few days ago at What's Wrong with the World. It was prompted by some of the posts it links from Wesley J. Smi...

Just in case you all out there in readerland ever say to yourselves, "I wonder what Lydia McGrew is up to in her personal life lately,...

Well, golly, I wrote such a great post for Ascension Day last year that I'm strongly inclined just to link to it. It's here. And her...

Okay, enough serious stuff. I offered this recipe on Facebook and had several takers, so here it is. Hopefully, the style will be more inter...

About thirty years ago in Chicago I went to a live concert by Ken Medema , a blind Christian pianist and singer. Ken was in rare form that n...

I fear that only a small segment of my already-small readership will appreciate this post, but that's as may be. I am self-consciously d...

More self-defense stuff: Kudos to the (for some reason) unnamed college student in Georgia who saved himself and his fellow students from m...

A new issue of a relatively new journal called The Christendom Review is now on-line. Bill Luse and I both have articles in it about Terr...

I'm going to touch on a touchy subject--the subject of race. Larry Auster links and discusses a horrifying recent story of a young moth...

This is cool: The dogs are so impressive. HT: Secondhand Smoke

I haven't had a hymn post for a long, long time. This morning we sang "Welcome, Happy Morning" to the catchy tune "Fortu...

In less than two months, Esteemed Husband and I will be winging our way to Belgium for a short conference in Leuven. This is a Big Deal, bec...

Do you hate PC-speak? Do you hate all the deceptive, cloying, mind-befogging, euphemistic mental manipulation to which the self-styled Guard...

Tonight at supper, Youngest Daughter (age 5 1/2) asked me, "What is the name of the biggest number?" With some excitement, I told ...

I don't do enough linking from here to my friends' blog pieces. There are a lot of reasons for that, and I'm not promising amend...

I always knew I disliked Rick Warren. Read about his backpedaling on supporting Prop. 8. Simply disgusting. Nothing like handing the keys o...

Imeem beats Youtube, hands down for selection of songs. I spent a lot more time a year ago looking for a good version of this on Youtube, an...

Alleluia! He is risen! Christ The Lord Is Risen Today - Glad

Eldest Daughter found this video and has urged me to embed it for Easter weekend. In fact, she wanted me to do it yesterday, for Good Friday...

All of you parents out there, perhaps mothers especially, have been through nights when a baby simply will not go to sleep. Fuss, fuss, fuss...