Theirs was not to reason why
Captain Inertia has a nice post up about online debates between Christians and nonbelievers. He admonishes his fellow Christians to...

Oh ... dear ...
Possible downside to joining a church: I could end up on these sorts of mailing lists. (Via The Gutless Pacifist.)...

Dreaming on
Today is the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. I don't know what to add...

Move over, Consumer Reports
Peter Nixon found a site featuring entertaining reviews of church services from all over. One of Peter's commenters said this...

New to the blogroll
Welcome to the delightfully named Captain Inertia (which I always imagine in that Saturday-morning-cartoon voice: Captainnn Inertiaaa!) and Allen Brill,...

A question for my Lutheran readers
Or for anybody else who knows this ... I'm trying to figure out the differences between the Lutheran synods. I...

A big enough umbrella
On Sunday I started my tour of local churches to see what looks promising. In addition to looking at the...

Hermeneutics ... was that a jazz band?
Allen Brill responds to my last post on The Gutless Pacifist....

Who wants to be an Israelite?
I've been largely avoiding the foolishness with the Alabama judge and the Ten Commandments, but I read a couple posts...

Window shopping
Since one thing I feel I want in a church is that it be closer to me than my current...

Personality to the letter
Father Jim Tucker is collecting the blogosphere's Myers-Briggs types. He's charted his results so far here. Interesting, but not surprising,...

What's old is new again
Allen Brill, a Lutheran minister who runs the blog The Right Christians, recommended I read his post on a James...

The liberal faith
Jeanne and Laura at Interesting Monstah both have good posts up about Christianity and the political left. Laura writes: This...

Odds and ends
Sorry for the light posting, but as you can see I have made some changes to the template. To the...

Nor bends with the remover to remove
Eugene Volokh posts on a lawsuit against a new New York high school reserved for homosexual, bisexual and "questioning" students....

Paleontology
John Zmirak apparently Googled up my July 11 post referring to him and left a huge comment in it (scroll...

California Judaica
I overheard this conversation today: "I have a friend who threw a bar mitzvah for her dog." "Really?" "Yeah, when...

Where do I go?
I got some interesting and helpful responses to my previous post (thanks, everyone). I was going to reply to them...

Wow, did I need that
I had a great vacation. I didn't quite realize, until I was already into it, how much I needed a...

The storm before the quiet
I'm having a mondo busy day at work trying to wrap things up before vacation. Then I go home and...