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Call me simple-minded if you will, but I think this is a brilliant video: I have listened with some frustration and some puzzlement to f...

Being an Anglican, and not a very good one either, I'm venturing into strange territory by giving an opinion on this subject, but here g...

Taking a leaf from Bill Luse , who occasionally does guessing games of this sort: Without looking it up via Google or any other method, c...

Among other things, Christian Science adherents believe that evil is an illusion. It is quite clear to the rest of us that their belief that...

I finally got my copy of Lizette Woodworth Reese's Selected Poems through interlibrary loan. [Digression concerning silly bureaucra...

Just in case I have any new readers here who don't regularly check the group blog I belong to, What's Wrong With the World, here...

Continuing in my never-ending quest to bring more unexpected things together, here's a quotation from C.S. Lewis paired with a song by t...

[Update: See commentator Chris's remark below. Turns out the comic was drawn by an admirer of Watterson, based on some comments Watterso...

Time for a hymn. We sang this in church this morning. It goes to the tune of "Beneath the Cross of Jesus." O Lamb of God! still ...

There is a somewhat flat "worship song" called "Lord, We Lift Your Name on High." Don't get me wrong, there are much...

W HEN  I consider Life and its few years—   A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;   A call to battle, and the battle done   Ere the last...

As a general rule, I have no particular urge to go linking to posts and comments that illustrate what I wrote about here . That's becaus...

This song used to be sung by the large college choir at my alma mater. I still think it incomparably beautiful today and have many fond mem...

No doubt, if you identify yourself as politically conservative in the United States, the majority of your acquaintances who also identify th...

A persistent problem that I see in criticisms of "capitalism" is the unclarity in the use of that term, which in turn seems to be ...

On Friday night, there was a storm. It's big local news, though not likely to show up on the news of the world at large. Lots of trees d...

I was just going through the most recent Human Life Review , a physical copy, to see if I would be keeping this physical issue. (I try not t...

Yes, you'll gather that I'm sufficiently a coward to use initials so as not to attract search bots and worse than search bots, as th...

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the e...

I just recently ran into someone on Facebook trying the line that the only laws that can be justified are those against force and fraud. I s...