Blood and soil
I haven't been commenting a lot on other people's Mark posts, but Kynn's take on Mark 5 provoked a number...

Hallelujah here she comes
Well, the last time I took off for a week everything disappeared except the last entry, but this time the...

Here we go a-wassailing
This afternoon I joined up with six other people from church to go out caroling. We visited church members who...

The big finale
So I saw Return of the King, and had a good time. Unfortunately the earliest show my friend could get...

Tolkien and Saddam
Yes, I'm catching the opening of Return of the King tonight. Some friends and co-workers and I are going to...

Blogrolling on
We're not gonna be getting any polaroids of Armageddon any more, because Hernan Gonzalez closed up shop. But, as if...

Still more on the pagan Christmas
The Ever Changing Selection points to an article in Touchstone magazine arguing that the dating of Christmas had nothing to...

Not to pile on, but...
I took a look at the article from which Pen drew his information about the pagan origins of Christmas, and...

Season's greetings
Pen says: "Bah! Humbug!" Personally, I think he's throwing out the baby with the bathwater here. If the date of...

Another question for people who know more than me
Dash is up to Leviticus 16, which describes the story of the scapegoat. She says: Aaron has to take two...

The descent
Jennifer posted recently about the Apostle's Creed, which, coincidentally, has been the subject of some contention in my Bible study...

Book blogging
In an act of ambition up there with Dash, Sean Collins is blogging every chapter of Lord of the Rings....

Truth in fiction
Eve Tushnet said something the other day that really resonated with me: Anyone who is or feels herself radically opposed...

Beyond belief
That Pagels book seems to be catching on like wildfire in the blogosphere; now Bill Allison's reading it. Although he...

Go figure
After weathering various dustups with the Christian right in this country, Marilyn Manson is now the subject of a criminal...

Remembrance
Today is World AIDS Day. Peter quotes from a rousing screed on the subject, plus a link to help you...

Returning to the fold
Laura at Interesting Monstah has been doing a remarkable series of posts about returning to the African Methodist Episcopal Church...

Let's play master and servant
One story I missed while I was on break was this flapdoodle over the naming of "master" and "slave" hard...