A life transformed
The folks at Get Religion are pretty conservative, but recently tmatt made common cause with Hugo in denouncing makeover TV....

From the department of "WTF?"
Ted Olsen at the Christianity Today weblog has been following the case of a neopagan "women's eucharist" that turned up...

Two Kingdoms roundup
Not surprisingly, a lot of the Christian blogosphere is pondering the relation between faith and politics. For those missing my...

Cryin' at the doorstep of those armies of salvation
One of my complaints about churches has been that they don't seem to take the idea of Christian service seriously....

A resurrection
Eighteen months is a long time in the blogosphere. In February last year, I was still going to Christian Assembly,...

Huffing
I had to smile seeing Paul Musgrave's ode to the smell of old books, because for a while I thought...

Mysterious ways
Jennifer and I have been emailing back and forth about divine providence lately, and now I see she's brought the...

Perpetuum mobile
Today I followed up on the idea from this thread and visited the Orthodox mission near my apartment. (By the...

Abortion and poverty
Joe Cecil and NJL are both citing an article in Sojourners arguing that reducing poverty will reduce abortion. Among the...

Blogwatch
Abroad as I was walking One evening in the spring, I heard a maid in Bedlam, So sweetly she did...

The Bible study that wouldn't die
I'd almost thought Kynn Bartlett had abandoned The Village Gate, but this weekend he not only returned but blogged Mark...

Magesterium
Judging by the comments to this post, I didn't make it clear enough what I meant by "teacher" and "student."...

I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I've been suffering more than common grief at the death of Christopher Reeve. Not least because of the extremely mundane...

My student days
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've had a kind of stressful week, not least because I finally...

Drinking the Italian way
A month ago Chris lamented the prevalence of binge drinking at his college, and I remarked that the Italian teenagers...

Peace
Well, I made an idiot of myself in this post by giving an Arminian the ultimate insult and calling him...

Among the Anabaptists
Yesterday, in a somewhat unplanned fashion, I wound up at Hugo's old haunt, the Pasadena Mennonite Church. I'd had a...