What's Left in the Church

As a child of the 1970's, I was exposed to Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth.   Few books over the past two generations hav...

It is ironic that I only now got around to reading the fallout from Nick Kristof's op-ed in last week's New York Times .  Ironic be...

I don't normally read Ross Douthat's columns in The New York Times .  Like David Brooks, he occupies a space of valuable op-ed real...

By now you've heard that Michael Sam, defensive lineman for the University of Missouri, came out last night. Almost immediately, the NF...

Time flies, I guess.  This past week, I heard the unbelievable news that it's been 10 years since the "wardrobe malfunction" ...

I've always felt that parenting is a matter of balance.  Too much of anything is bad.  Bringing a person from childhood to adulthood wi...

It's a long story how I ended up doing it, but I dragged my old journals out from the place I stashed them when we moved last summer an...

That title holds a multitude of things, of course.  From advanced mathematics through the music of John Zorn to arc-welding, there are far ...

A couple weeks back, a man with whom I grew up posted something about Pres. Obama on his timeline on Facebook, and one of his FB friends po...

This morning, like most mornings, I sat and read some things on the Internet while sipping my coffee.  I have really enjoyed reading the bl...

A week ago today, we piled in the car and drove 12 hours to my hometown.  Our first family Christmas in my childhood home in 20 years of ma...

Of the myriad reasons not fleshed out the other day when I wrote that I would be writing less (and here I am writing three days in a row, b...