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August 2014

August 16, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 16 August 2014

Is there a better looking, more comfortable bus stop? Go Jackie Robinson West! Vicki Beeching,...

August 02, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 2 August 2014

The 50 most affordable Christian colleges, including my alma mater (Cornerstone University) and my former...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 26 July 2014

A tree with forty different fruits! And it's a gorgeous tree, to boot. (Could be...

July 19, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 19 July 2014

Our week in Oxford included a number of connections to CS Lewis, including a fine...

July 12, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 12 July 2014

Portland art work. Roger Olson proposes a method for a local church in discerning the...

July 05, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 5 July 2014

It takes a village! If you care about the Great Lakes, read this fun set...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 28 June 2014

Image credit Reviving baseball in African American communities -- now I like basketball, but baseball's...

June 21, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 21 June 2014

What to have for breakfast? Cleveland Clinic: You’re driving for hours on an uphill road....

June 14, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 14 June 2014

These are some very cool summer drinks. I'm glad Jack and Priscilla were at SPU...

June 07, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 7 June 2014

It's Graduation Day at Northern Seminary! Congratulations to our many graduates and our prayers for...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 31 May 2014

Fantastic idea by Boz Tchividjian: GRACE recently convened a team of Christian theologians, pastors, counselors,...

May 24, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 24 May 2014

Kris and I were gone two weeks in New Zealand and it seems this week...

May 10, 2014

Weekly Meanderings 10 May 2014

But did they really discover Herod's tomb? After Herod died in 4 B.C., he was...

May 03, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 3 May 2014

Tolkien gives Hitler's administration an earful when they asked him if he was Aryan when...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 26 April 2014

A beautiful story about Lacey Holsworth: The purpose of the universe, by George Dvorsky: It's...

April 19, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 19 April 2014

Best story of the week: Most children, Asher Svidensky says, are a little intimidated by...

April 12, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 12 April 2014

On the first day when Sweden changed from driving on the left side (English style)...

April 05, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 5 April 2014

Little boy sleeping with his puppy: Wow are these funny! Carl Trueman, World Vision and...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

Weekly Meanderings 29 March 2014

Marvelous story about Andreian Payne and Lacey Holsworth, marvelous: Adreian Payne and 8-year old Lacey Holsworth...

March 22, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 22 March 2014

It's a bird, it's a plane... yerkidding... it's a woman! On Malaysian Airlines flight 370,...

March 15, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 15 March 2014

High school dances -- going the way of high button shoes? (One of my favorite movies...

March 08, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 8 March 2014

This amazing picture of Chicago's reflection on the lake taken from an airplane by an...

March 01, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 1 March 2014

These pre WW2 photos are priceless stories, my favorite this homesteader gardening: Diversity sometimes means...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 22 February 2014

A tragic, but well-told story, by my friend Karen. Jed Zillmer was a kid. Jed...

February 15, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 15 February 2014

My, Lego ads tell a story: So what did Rachel Giordano have to say about...

February 08, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 8 February 2014

Correcting the President, Christina Hoff Sommers: It’s the bogus statistic that won’t die—and president deployed...

February 01, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 1 February 2014

Wow, that's a super sized boulder! Joe Carter, at the Acton Institute blog, opines about...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 25 January 2014

To my knowledge, a student has never Rickroll'd me in a paper or essay, but...

January 18, 2014

Weekly Meanderings 18 January 2014

Kristin answers why she permits her teenage daughter to pierce her nose. “Why on earth...

January 11, 2014

Weekly Meanderings, 11 January 2014

Chicago's icy week. Jordan Weissmann says the US government is giving out more money than...