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A joyful Easter to my readers. He is risen! Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting...

I've been looking over some of my older posts, searching for the word "Pilate." This occurred to me to do after I listened la...

The tabernacle is empty, the door standing open. The altar is stripped and bare. On Good Friday, we remember the Passion of Our Lord, the ...

It is Palm Sunday, and I have nothing much new to say. Years ago I poured myself into quite a few liturgical posts, and they still seem good...

I've been thinking a bit about thinkers who recognize teleology in nature but don't want to attribute this to a superpowerful and in...

I linked this a few years ago, but it deserves to be posted again. And who knows, maybe I've picked up a reader or two in the meanwhile ...

As mentioned in a previous post, I've been wanting to draw attention to pianist Roger Bennett's testimony from an old Cathedrals con...

The cry of the papacy of John Paul II was "Be not afraid!" It's an encouragement that Christians need. We're certainly not...

Inspired by a good post by my W4 colleague Jeffrey S. on the minimum wage, I've been thinking a bit lately about anti-free-market appro...

God has laid it on my heart today to blog a story that I believed I had blogged years ago. After a long time searching the Internet, this si...

Hunter Baker makes a good point here , describing a woman he saw at Hardee's: With great concentration and methodical effort, she scr...

I have posted my thoughts apropos of Sanctity of Human Life Sunday at What's Wrong With the World. By way of posting something differe...

In this post last year I embedded a 4Shared link to "I Will Be Here" by Steven Curtis Chapman. Unfortunately, 4Shared has now beco...

O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles; Mercifully grant that we, who know thee now by fa...

Jesus said, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father ...

It's only taken me about 5 1/2 years, but I finally found out how to back up this blog. An on-line friend, Michael Bauman, had the URL f...

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  ...