I apologize for the bewilderment and frustration that many of you have encountered thanks to our restricted-words filter. It's funny, but also not. Read more

The point of the pointing isn’t to direct the eye toward the finger, but toward the moon — to get you to look in the direction the finger is pointing. Read more

"Lassie! Timmy's trapped in a well! Go find some twitchy young men with guns!" Read more

Abraham commended his love toward Sodom in that while they were yet wicked, he pleaded for them. Read more

Don't sell your soul -- whatever it is that means. Read more

The walls are gone, but they're still charging a toll to use their gates. Read more

Sometimes reading the religion news is like reading the police blotter. Read more

But that doesn’t mean that everyone agrees how they were wrong, or why they were wrong. That’s not something we like to talk about. Read more

In which musing about the "death of the author" results in an email from the author. Read more