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Those of you who have ever been involved in a project involving a small group, or perhaps in a small church, may be familiar with the phenom...

I remember during the Olmert administration in Israel there were all these questions as to whether Olmert had agreed (shamefully, with the B...

I just had a lovely evening walk. Listened to the doves. Doves are funny birds--slow-moving and seemingly slow-witted. But perhaps for that ...

I encourage my readers to read my latest post at W4. I give a few suggestions of historical evidence ammunition for Christians. This is an ...

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the he...

"And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto ...

Dear friends, After catching up on my sleep from the Belgium trip, I felt absolutely wonderful. I went bouncing around for a few days, unabl...

Over at W4 I've put up a post on my Belgium trip. It's good to be home, though the conference was great. I got to see a little bit ...

A blessed Trinity Sunday to everyone. I don't know if my Catholic readers have Trinity Sunday. If not, it's a shame. Comes right aft...

I got word a few hours ago by e-mail that a friend of ours named Dale Peeke died this morning. Dale was a member of my church, St. Patrick...

[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