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This is a very good, relatively new Christmas song by the southern gospel trio Greater Vision: I especially like the lyrics of the choru...

It is quite likely that this will simply be my Christmas post. Apologies to the liturgically strict, since it is going up on the 22nd. Bu...

I've been pondering lately on something that C.S. Lewis says in one of his essays on forgiveness. He has several. I'm not sure which...

Today is Rejoice Sunday, in the midst of Advent. (It's rather a dark, cold, and snowy Rejoice Sunday, and Advent as a whole, where I liv...

There are a lot of versions of "He Just Needs a Few Good Men" out there, some of them no doubt vocally smoother than this one, but...

The Advent hymn "Veni Emmanuel" contains the following lines: "Make safe the way that leads on high,/ and close the path to...

This story is doing the rounds on social media. The story is allegedly about a boorish and embarrassing Christian family who gratuitously i...

Here is a self-styled honest atheist telling us how he would react if, after death, he turned out to be wrong and actually met the Christian...

This inspiring story tells of a secular Jew in Boston, Lee Eiseman, who has been babying along an historic organ in a Catholic church for se...

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...