Shut that refrigerator, you think money grows on trees? ... Two gentlemen from Kentucky with two very different ideas about small farms. ... Dick Armey upsets whatsisname -- the guy with the red beard that always does that show ... the Hobbit houses of Chester County ... Tweet the Dirt Down. Read more
Psalm 146: "The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin." Read more
Two posts from two very different writers on two simple ways to make the world a better, happier, more humane place for us all. Read more
Joan Chittister on Job's story and the story of women; Sarah Moon on "the privilege of purity;" Dani Kelley on "The body I have;" and Meg Munoz on what the anti-trafficking movement needs to learn about its programs. Read more
At the top of the blog here, just under that graffiti-ish masthead-y thing, you'll find three new tabs labeled "The Bonfire," "Xn QUILTblogs" and "The Mosaic." These are the lists I began compiling late last year in an attempt to discover and to share the diversity of the Christian blogosphere. Read more
An Ohio public school superintendent is defending the ginormous reproduction of Sallman's Head of Christ that hangs in a Jackson City school building. He says the iconic portrayal of a white Gentile Jesus does not privilege or establish religion, but merely reflects "the culture of our community." Read more
Let's just assume that the coroner was not killed in the nuclear attack on the city, that the coroner's downtown office was not damaged, that the phone lines and power for the office continue to function as they did before the attack, that the coroner himself and all of his staff managed to make their way through all the debris and devastation to get to the building and that now, today -- one day after the Antichrist's military nuked the city of Chicago -- the Cook County Office of the Medical Examiner is open for business during regular office hours. Read more
The idiom of choice -- or cliché, if you want to be critical about it -- for people refusing to acknowledge an urgent problem that ought to be their priority used to be "the 800-pound gorilla in the room." In recent years, though, the idiom seems to be shifting as the gorilla has gotten some competition from the elephant in the room. Read more
Swallowing a tablet is too stark a reminder that caffeine is a drug. Ingesting that drug via coffee masks that somewhat. All those B-vitamin compounds and herbal whatnots in energy drinks do the same thing. They're just in there so we can pretend we're doing something nutritional and wholesome rather than just finding another flavor for the delivery system for our preferred stimulant drug. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. Let's try a new twist, songs with famous people in their titles. ... Read more
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