Freedom for my people
It can be entertaining to see a blogger get obsessed, and lately Eric Muller has been on the case of...

He went and preached to the spirits in prison
I always thought it was extremely cool that Peter Nixon of the late, lamented Sursum Corda does prison ministry. I...

Simple gifts
Some nice posts about the virtue of simplicity from Ben Kepple and Salty, a new poster in the Ruins....

Reformation
I didn't do anything for Reformation Day, even church. I kind of ran out of ideas for church visits, or...

Humbling the exalted
After I went off to traipse among the cedars, Joe Guada wrote a thoughtful response to my most recent post...

Giving and receiving
At one recent Bible study, we were discussing the beginning of the Last Supper scene in John where Peter protests...

The eternal moment
Noah Millman has a neat essay about a Jewish custom I'd never heard of: counting the days between Passover and...

Tongues of flame
Gossip is one sin that I never gave much thought to before. I was never especially attracted to it --...

Recovery
Sorry I've slacked off again, but I was fighting off a virus all weekend. I suspect it was that flu...

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...

Still more about power
Rob thinks I'm going all Foucaultian in seeing power relations even in family relationships. Power, in his mind, is about...

Powers and principalities
The discussion about church and gender has gone on at The Right Christians and has moved to another, related subject:...

Love the sinner, hate the sin
Kynn recently objected to that concept, and Tom responded with a series of posts (permalinks are fubar again, but it...

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...

When theologians rampage
I finally reconnected with Telford this weekend -- he's sold his house and has a little more time on his...

Talking to brick walls
Tom is sounding a bit pessimistic about fellow Catholics who are unclear on the "blessed are the poor" concept when...

Can I get a witness?
Rob at ConNiPtionNs wrote a post inveighing against "witnessing": I don't really get this "witnessing," but I am subjected it...