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If you haven't read the book of Acts recently, it would be a great New Testament book to re-read. There are so many things to enjoy in i...

I hope to have a more substantive Christmas post up here soon, but for now: A very pretty original carol by Keith and Kristyn Getty.

I can't keep up with all the stuff I want to link lately. Been wrapping Christmas presents, y'know. And just occasionally I want to ...

Today was Bible Sunday in Advent, but I'm all skejipsed on my Advent schedule anyway, so I don't have a real Bible Sunday post. An  ...

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch this DVD . It's a huge, staged tribute to Gospel music arranger and producer Lari G...

Here's a fun song called "I Played in the Band" by Bill Gaither from the Booth Brothers' recent album, "A Tribute to...

It's that time of year again. The time when the stores rev up the admittedly too-early and too-oft-repeated Christmas music. And the tim...

'Tis true that I've been neglecting this blog, but I just haven't been sufficiently inspired to do a lot of separate posts in tw...

Gandalf the Grey: The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril a...

Things don't really look so good for the United States of America. Need I go into great detail about why? Well, I'm not going to. T...

A blessed Feast of All Saints to my readers. A friend told me in an e-mail today that he doesn't know the hymn "For All the Saints....

As I affirmed here , one take-home lesson of the Todd Akin affair was that, even though the official GOP platform does not endorse abortion ...

If I've been quiet lately it's because I don't have a lot to say. For a lot of reasons, chief among them that I've been some...

Steve Green is a gospel musician whom I admired when I was in my twenties, when he was a "power singer" with a Greek god profile, ...

I happened to notice this on Israel Matzav: A movement this past Sunday to get millions of Jews all over the world, from all countries, to ...

It's been what seems like a loong time since I posted any music. So here are just a couple of things. First, a new-to-me version of ...

I've had many, many thoughts about the Todd Akin situation and have thought about posting them here but have been a bit busy with normal...

A big topic, to which I doubt that I will do justice. If you faint by the wayside before reading the entire post, no one will blame you, I l...

I had hoped and planned to be blogging next here at Extra Thoughts about something much happier than what will be contained in this post. Ho...

Ladies and gentlemen, I've been trying to write philosophy lately. When I do this, my blogging usually suffers. Or maybe it would place ...