A reader writes: I’m home sick today… Trying to ward off the flu 🙁 and Nick Milne writes: I write with two objectives this morning: 1. A prayer request; I have to do something very difficult on an ongoing basis for the next couple of months, and I would be grateful for any support I can get. I’ve received specific prayers from people familiar with the situation (which is actually rather boring), but a furious general assault from your readers... Read more

cracks me up. Read more

A reader sends this along and sez: What I thought was most interesting was the AP reporter’s framing of the story. At the beginning, we get: “Adams is one of several Detroit clergymen who have taken to packing heat in the pulpit. They have committed their lives to a man who preached nonviolence and told followers to love their enemies. But they also say it’s up to them to protect their parishioners in church.” Towards the end, again we get:... Read more

…said the Prophet Chesterton, is that there aren’t enough capitalists. He was all for private property and individual ownership. Centralized economies were as much anathema to him as they are to Rush Limbaugh. The trouble with our current system is that it talks a good game about private ownership while insanely taking my money and giving it to incompetent and greedy rich guys who are too big to fail. That’s not a consolation to me. Read more

One of the points I’ve been banging away at for lo these many years is that, once you make torture into the policy of the state, it is inevitable that the state will deliberately torture innocent people and then declare them guilty by virtue of the fact that, hey!, if we tortured you, you *must* be guilty! La voila! A US Court confirms that we deliberately tortured a guy we knew to be innocent in order to obtain a false... Read more

Wingnut ideologues just keep bringin’ the crazy. As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1] 1.Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias 2.Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, “gender inclusive” language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity 3.Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only... Read more

Could you and your readers pray for a friend of mine? She and her husband are missionaries in Indonesia. As you know the country has been rocked by two huge earthquakes in the last 24 hours and so far, no one has heard from either of them. This could be due to massive communications outages over there in the wake of this disaster, but friends and family are obviously worried. Please pray they are safe or that if they need... Read more

I continue having a bale of stuff to do, but before I go I want to remind you all again to please be as generous as you can to Rod Bennett and his family, who have lost everything in the recent Georgia flooding. Remember, log on to PayPal and click on the “Send Money” tab. Then enter Rod’s email address ([email protected]) and be as generous as you can be. Do NOT–I repeat, NOT–send the money to me by clicking on... Read more

Now do I get my hymns of adoration from awkward school children, complete with dorky hand motions? I try to be a good Dark Lord, but you people are so demanding! Read more

A humor-impaired reader writes What is this “Prophet Chesterton” stuff? I’ve no doubt that he’s very insightful, etc. but I find it offensive to see him referred to as the “Prophet Chesterton” just like it’s said at Mass. Tough. Grow a sense of whimsy. This isn’t Mass. It’s a blog written by somebody with a rather free-spirited sense of what you can and cannot do with the English language to get a point across. Learn to cope or I might... Read more