Extra Thoughts

As regular readers know, I occasionally find that, when my own wellsprings of inspiration are at low ebb, the sci-fi writer and blogger John...

I saw somebody griping on the Internet the other day. What's new? But, especially since I've been neglecting this blog a bit recen...

I was recently conversing with a young woman who is now Catholic but was raised fundamentalist Baptist. It sounds like her fundamentalist Ba...

Ernie Haase's signature song is "O, What a Savior," below. One line that bothers some theological purists is "But they ...

We have it on high authority that we should not tempt (aka test) God. (Matthew 4:7) It might seem that this means that we shouldn't se...

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...