2018-03-27T07:59:24-04:00

Last updated on: March 27, 2018 at 7:59 am   By

I happened upon this article/interview this morning and found it interesting, depressing, and probably true, although I’m not knowledgable enough to know for sure. Marriage, concludes the author of this book (which I haven’t read), has risen up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and is now teetering unstably at the top. It’s an exciting time for marriage, but it is also precarious, as the whole institution could easily tilt over and tumble away. Marriages, he says, are fewer, but better, and... Read more

2018-03-26T10:36:34-04:00

Last updated on: March 26, 2018 at 10:36 am   By

Good day to you all. I trust you are all rushing around in a frantic daze of busyness and anxiety. Just kidding, don’t do that. That’s a terrible idea. We’ve done up a short and sweet podcast about the celebrity pastor trope, why teenagers shouldn’t be in charge of our now one-party state, and why better preaching is always the answer. Here’s the article we talk about. And here’s the coloring book. And now onto the good stuff. This seems... Read more

2018-03-25T06:54:04-04:00

Last updated on: March 25, 2018 at 6:54 am   By

I’ve been mulling over one of those age-old questions for the last 24 hours. An atheist might frame it up this way–didn’t Jesus just commit some sort of ghastly suicide by going willingly up to death? Shouldn’t he have stopped it all, if he had the power to do so? It is rather a timely question, good for me to think about. Especially last night when I finally worked up the nerve to read about Arnaud Beltrame, the French police... Read more

2018-03-24T09:42:33-04:00

Last updated on: March 24, 2018 at 9:42 am   By

[This gnome with a dragon is not impressed with your coloring skills.] Gosh, I love Flipboard. Bet it’s owned by Facebook, though. That’s too bad. Still, I love the bright shiny-ness of it, the silent flipping from one article to another, the lack of commenting capabilities, the lie that I am just diligently reading the news and making up my own mind. I love it so much this week I forgot to read any books. But then this “book” was... Read more

2018-03-23T08:44:12-04:00

Last updated on: March 23, 2018 at 8:44 am   By

It’s Friday and the sun is sort of up, so how ’bout some takes? One Holy Week is nearly upon us and I have whole piles of stuff to do this weekend. Whole Piles. Mountains, practically. Including finishing up another quarter of school work and getting it turned in before Monday at midnight. But here’s the thing, and hold on to your Easter Bonnets for a minute because it’s big, ready? We are going to finish all our school work... Read more

2018-03-22T07:50:45-04:00

Last updated on: March 22, 2018 at 7:50 am   By

Mostly I am very happy to rely on the work of others for the finding of news. You know, you post on facebook, I click your link and save it, I forget it was you who posted, I use your link in my Monday Links, I never actually share anything on Facebook, though sometimes on Twitter, I feel guilty, I resolve to share things on Facebook, I forget, and then something terrible happens and I end up on Huffpo reading... Read more

2018-03-21T09:11:33-04:00

Last updated on: March 21, 2018 at 9:11 am   By

I’ve got nothing today. And am miserably hampered by this new keyboard I downloaded as a remedy to the daily rage and trauma inflicted unwittingly by me upon my loyal readers by the misuse of commas, the picking of wrong spellings, and other grammatical “errors” that make your heads want to explode. Here’s the thing, I don’t feel like I should have to be constrained by your conceptions of proper speech and writing. Writing the way I write is part of... Read more

2018-03-20T08:09:24-04:00

Last updated on: March 20, 2018 at 8:09 am   By

Woke up and was delighted to discover that the international day of happiness wasn’t even trending on Twitter. Instead, the wide world is talking about Facebook behaving so badly, the snowpocalypse bearing down on the northeast, and some other subjects I know nothing about. I’m sure you’re happy to have these Daily Twitter Reports so that you yourself don’t have to actually go to Twitter. Anyway, I have a new least favorite word. In its traditional usage, it was a... Read more

2018-03-19T10:25:25-04:00

Last updated on: March 19, 2018 at 10:25 am   By

Good Moaning! Tomorrow is World Happiness Day and I intend to celebrate all week, kicking off the festivities with a podcast about how to be happy and why Happiness is So Important. One way you will be happy, of course, is when a UN Happiness Monitor moves into your house to make sure that you are feeling happy all the time, because sadness is evil and bad. I think this podcast is the all time Happiest podcast there is and... Read more

2018-03-18T06:41:55-04:00

Last updated on: March 18, 2018 at 6:41 am   By

A child said to me a few days ago, “I really gotta think of something to give up for Lent. I just don’t know what.” “That’s interesting,” I said, “Lent is almost over. That ship has almost completely sailed.” “I don’t have a ship,” said the child. “Of course you don’t,” I said. “Neither do I.” Lest you are inclined, like me, to be discouraged about your failure to even choose a Lenten thought, not to mention discipline, rejoice that... Read more

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