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You've probably heard about this already, but here are links to no less than three songs (the first link contains two songs) that publ...

Wow, here's a great prayer that I just ran across on this Catholic blog, which was in turn linked by Jeff Culbreath . Here's the pr...

We have some neighbors we like very much. J. and his wife B. are in their eighties. A few years ago, Eldest Daughter did a wonderful series ...

Via Eldest Daughter, here is a fun bluegrass-style song from Michael Card. It's about the Apostle Peter and is called "Walking on ...

I ought to write something profound about 9/11, but I cannot think of anything profound to say all by my lonesome. At W4 it has been done m...

Indulge me. I'd never heard this song before until my friend Rich posted a clip here of a short version of it by a capella group Retur...

A reader wrote via e-mail with the following, to my mind excellent, comment apropos of the long threads at W4 about growth, property, ...

Wesley J. Smith tells us of Robert Schindler's death. This is the moment when one really wants to be able to pray something or other fo...

I don't suggest that you go and read this whole editorial in the Orlando Sentinel . It's pretty slimy. (Sample--he refers to Terri ...

Per Bill Luse's suggestion here , I have posted here a piece on Obamacare and abortion. The short version is, yeah, it looks like it wi...

If there's one thing I get tired of...okay, there are lots of things I get tired of. I can't pick one. But one of the things I get t...

Story here . Unclear whether he'll actually do it. How evil is that? You insist that the courts declare you have this "right" ...

We all know by now that Obama's line is that if you like your insurance, you'll be able to keep it. Nothing to see here, folks. Move...

I don't know how many of these I will do. The whole thing is very discouraging. First, here are links to some of my comments and one po...

Dear friends, As most of you learned from the comments below, it turned out that I had a much more serious problem with my ankle and foot th...

So it turns out I'm quite allergic to bee and/or wasp stings. Got stung a week ago today for the first time in my life, as far as I can ...

I've been watching on Facebook recently as some friends (who almost certainly don't read this blog, and who are unknown to anyone wh...

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 ...