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April 2014

April 02, 2014

That curious time when every pope wore a beard

Owing to both papal and canonical disapproval, beards have been underrepresented in the Latin church....

January 2014

January 13, 2014

Sabbatical

I'm taking a breather. I've tried a noise fast unsuccessfully in the past: no social...

January 09, 2014

Why moving stinks and staying is better

Ben Franklin once said that "three removes is as bad as a fire. . ....

January 07, 2014

Read the Bible if you’re going to have an opinion about it

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a list of books you should read. His selection concerns...

December 2013

December 22, 2013

A quick lesson in effective communication from Basil the Great

Remember that time you confused Hemingway with Basil the Great? I was reading something by...

December 06, 2013

Fun things you find at a Christian publishing house

Earlier today I walked into a friend's office and saw a very old book. It...

November 2013

November 03, 2013

Meanwhile, St. Basil describes the Christian blogosphere

This morning I cracked open Basil the Great's slender book, On the Holy Spirit. Writing...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Why does Jesus have a boo-boo?

While I was reading a bit of Diarmaid MacCulloch's mammoth history, Christianity, my five-year-old son...

June 2013

June 06, 2013

Felicity’s rules for living

Several months ago as we were preparing to move into our new house, I discovered...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

What’s with all the Christian tattoos? Am I missing out?

I used to want a tattoo. That was more than twenty years ago, back in...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

The Bible, clear as mud

Peering through the most recent edition of the peerless Books and Culture, I came across...

December 2012

December 06, 2012

The good-natured Dave Brubeck

Since the passing this week of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, I've kept returning to his...

December 05, 2012

How the Lord’s Prayer brought Dave Brubeck to the church

Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died earlier today at ninety-one, just a day shy...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Various and sundry No. 1

1 Don't do it this way. Frank Viola has a worthwhile post on avoiding certain...

November 17, 2011

Things I’m pretty sure are true

Many are the authors who have assembled lists of various undeniable truths and irrefutable laws....

November 04, 2011

The kindergarten rules

Here are some lessons you're supposed to learn as a child that will definitely serve...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

My broken foot

I’m not much of a dancer, but when I stepped off the stairs Saturday night...

May 2010

May 10, 2010

Sanity check for publishers

In all the discussions about digital publishing, enhanced ebooks, and the future of publishing, let’s...

August 2009

August 10, 2009

Sex and food

Read this quote from C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: "You can get a large audience...

April 2008

April 28, 2008

Running fool

As I sit down gingerly to write this, it's Sunday, just before noon. Yesterday I...