A week from Monday, if all goes according to plan, my wife will be having the surgery that will restore her to full health. Please, Lord, let this for once go according to plan. Read more
A week from Monday, if all goes according to plan, my wife will be having the surgery that will restore her to full health. Please, Lord, let this for once go according to plan. Read more
Henry Farrell and Dietrich Bonhoeffer help me think through my decades-long one-sided argument with Sting. (This is about Elon and Zuck and "disinformation" and whatnot. Sort of.) Read more
A 3,000-year-old tablet reveals that people who claim to believe in a "literal Noah's ark" have literally never read that story. Read more
If we're gonna talk about the "History of White Evangelicals and Politics" over the last 60 years, we're gonna have to talk about George Wallace. Read more
Stories are the reservoir of our values. That's what makes them seem threatening. Read more
May your year be filled with epiphanies large and small, and may all your Fridays be freaky. Read more
"Those people were a kind of solution." Read more
Comcast xFinity is now saying our internet service will be restored by tomorrow at 10 pm. This amends their earlier reassurance that service would be restored by 5 pm today. My new New Year’s Resolution is to have internet access some time during 2025. As an Old Person poorly equipped for this typing-with-your-thumbs-on-a-phone-screen mode of writing, I’m afraid this site will be slim pickings until xFinity gets their wires uncrossed. Thanks for your patience. P.S. WordPress now requires a featured... Read more
Jimmy Carter was a former president for longer than anyone else and he was better at it than almost anybody else. Read more
"God defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing." Read more
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