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January 2016

January 05, 2016

Recipe-blogging: Pepper-less pepper steak

Yeah, sure, this is trivial, and nothing to get excited about, as we're not exactly...

January 05, 2016

“Mechanical Turk” and the Etsy Economy

This is new-to-me, though not new per se: Amazon has a side business selling not...

January 04, 2016

A brief observation on minimum wage-earners and food stamps

Here's the context: I spent a fair bit of time writing on the issue of...

January 03, 2016

The “Caring Hearts Ministry”?

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. Longtime readers will know that...

January 03, 2016

I finally saw The Force Awakens

And, having restrained myself from clicking on all manner of articles purporting to explain plot holes and...

January 02, 2016

Is everything you know about food banks wrong?

So it would seem, based on this Washington Post article from a couple days ago,...

January 01, 2016

Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part the third

Continuing my look back at the various things I've written: 25. February 10, 2015, "Thinking...

January 01, 2016

Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part two

Continued . . . 13. September 2, 2014, "Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of...

January 01, 2016

Jane the Actuary’s (not so) greatest hits, part one

This appears to be the time of year when bloggers look back, to their most...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

If Christmas didn’t exist, would we have to invent it?

By which I mean not the celebration of Christ's birth, but the orgy of shopping....

December 28, 2015

Should we “stop giving our junk to the poor”?

That's the call in an article at Aleteia, "Why We Need to Stop Giving Our...

December 28, 2015

The War on Christmas: an opportunity, but also (let’s face it) a loss

So in the days leading up to Christmas I spent my time reading about Islam...

December 27, 2015

Is Pink-flation a legitimate complaint?

Yes, that's my attempt to coin a term, not the author's usage, but here's a...

December 26, 2015

Girl Scouts at the toy store

No, I don't mean that they've set up a cookie-selling booth. I mean that they've...

December 26, 2015

Stray thought on the hijab

So now I've read in multiple places (e.g., Ali-Karamali per my summary the other day,...

December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas to my readers

The house is temporarily quiet, so before I go back into the kitchen, here's a...

December 23, 2015

There are two kinds of Islam (and further thoughts)

and, no, I don't mean Sunni vs. Shi'a. I mean an Islam of "core principles"...

December 23, 2015

From the library: Mecca and Main Street; Muslim Life in America after 9/11, by Geneive Abdo

Last book. In the prior two books I've talked about, we saw that there exists...

December 22, 2015

Are Mormons Christians? (and more relevant follow-up questions)

Still reading by library books on Islam and drafting a more comprehensive response to them,...

December 22, 2015

From the library: Allah, Liberty, and Love; the Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom, by Irshad Manji

From the title of this book, you'd think it's a replay of Ali-Karamali's The Muslim...

December 20, 2015

From the library: The Muslim Next Door by Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Subtitled The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing. The front cover alone lets you...

December 18, 2015

“Same God”? What does that even mean?

Allow me to be contrarian. Per my prior post, and all over the internet, Wheaton...

December 18, 2015

What does it mean to wear the hijab?

Here's the deal: You've likely heard about Larycia Hawkins, who declared in a Facebook post...

December 17, 2015

On the hijab

Posting's been light due to busy-ness at work and at home, but here's something to...

December 16, 2015

Our Baby Jesus Family

The "Baby Jesus people": that's the name our kids had for the nativity set when...

December 15, 2015

Yeah, three wholly unrelated topics for this morning that came across my twitter feed and

December 14, 2015

Laquan McDonald and the “third and fourth generations”

When you grow up LCMS, you memorize scripture, such as this one: "You shall not...

December 12, 2015

When God is not love

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that...

December 11, 2015

Gift suggestions?

Yes, it's that time of year when everyone is flogging their carefully-curated list of gift...

December 11, 2015

First, from Charles Krauthammer (in this case, in the Washington Post): "Why take the Trump...

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