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I've often wondered about the problem of forgiving those who haven't wronged you. Suppose, just for example, that I have a dear woma...

Tomorrow I'll see if I can rustle up something more profound and serious to say. No promises. For now, here is some more music with a fe...

By one of those happy liturgical coincidences, Valentine's Day this year falls on the Sunday right before Ash Wednesday, for which I Cor...

Hey, all you Yahoo mail users out there. I just found out that Yahoo Mail (you know, the thing you thought you were using just for e-mail) i...

It had been so long since I heard this song that at first I told Eldest Daughter that I didn't know it. How could I have forgotten? Stev...

A follow-up on this story: A judge has said that if Lisa Miller does not turn over her child to her lesbian ex-lover Janet Jenkins (no rel...

Back to music. I hope my readers who aren't into the same kind of music I'm into don't mind the gospel and Christian contemp. to...

Rifqa Bary's parents and their CAIR lawyer are furious: Apparently Rifqa's keepers with Franklin County Children's Services lift...

Eldest Daughter has been foraging amongst my old cassette tapes and vinyl records. She found a Steve Green tape and promptly went on-line to...

I have finally managed to get on Pastor Jamal Jivanjee's mailing list for updates on Rifqa Bary, so I got this hot off the press. Pastor...

This post by Professor (of a named chair at Princeton) George Hunsinger was recently drawn to my attention by a friend. It is Hunsinger...

Rifqa's next actual hearing is January 28. There is a minor hearing on January 19, but according to Jamal Jivanjee , this will be only t...

One of them, my readers are already praying for--Rifqa Bary. Jamal Jivanjee has another update on her situation here . He says that prior to...

I felt like I ought to write a post about health care, giving a link to a post that at least (and at last) tells us something about the diff...

This is old, old Christian rock the way it should be. Rich, my friend, since you've posted some Christian rock at your site, this one...

I got an unexpected present yesterday. Eldest Daughter made me a CD with some oldies (by which she means, songs from the 1980's) on it. ...

Though skeptics try at times, in the service of their own silly parallelisms, to imply that the December 25 date for Christmas is somehow es...

See longer version at W4 here . Short version--good news for now, but the hearings continue, and there is no clear end in sight or vindicati...

I'm Glad to have figured out how to embed this song. It might have been made for the group. I love this song. He is our peace!

Enjoy. I've never known what that song about Africa means--the one they turn into a Christmas song at the end. The SNC Christmas version...