Extra Thoughts

This extremely poor post  at First Things blog ought to require no response, just because it is so very, very wrongheaded. It ought to suffi...

Time for an economics post, as some slight attempted atonement for my neglect of my personal blog. (I have to some degree kept up posting du...

Over the years here at Extra Thoughts I have repeatedly mentioned blind pianist and singer Ken Medema. He was big in the Midwest in the 1970...

I was cooking again today (yes, you are starting to notice a pattern in these posts) and listening to a Gaither hymns CD (yep, that's an...

Today while cooking I was listening to a hymns CD by the Booth Brothers , one of my favorite Gospel music groups. Unfortunately not nearly e...

Back when I was "out there" in the office working world, twenty-some years ago, "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechani...

I'm being a bit lazy this Sunday. Put it down to the large blizzard cum sub-zero temperatures we are having here. Not that that weather ...

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...