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August 2018

August 12, 2018

Give Us This Day Our Daily Huel

Learned this morning in this interesting article about something called “Huel.” Writes the author, Huel...

August 07, 2018

That’s Not Funny

Afraid to say I got sucked in reading all those tweets by that person who...

July 2018

July 29, 2018

Wellness Architecture, Peace, and Rusty Metal

I have lately been immersing myself in some of the theology of the age, trying...

July 26, 2018

Zuck, goop, and True Happiness

Oh goodness, it’s 9am, the day of a birthday—the eleven year old will be twelve...

July 24, 2018

How To Ruin Everything In Two Easy Steps

Was well rewarded in my internet search this morning by first this, and then this....

July 22, 2018

What Are You Waiting For?

[Jesus wondering why you’re still surfing the interwebs.] Delighted, in the midst of my search...

July 11, 2018

What It Takes To Make A Good Museum, A Listicle

We have one more lovely day ahead of us here in fair Virginia. The crepe...

July 10, 2018

What It Takes To Look Beautiful

I love this so much. Besides the felicity of not having to read of the...

July 08, 2018

Communion in a Networking World

This is an interesting and enlightening article, developing a more elegant theory than my own--that...

July 02, 2018

Death Is Probably Lurking

By rights I should have a lovely scintillating podcast and a whole lot of links...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

7 Sugar Takes

One We are nearing the end of a whirlwind week. Daily visits to the school,...

June 13, 2018

God’s Will For America: Nationalism and the Gospel

Many months ago, James White announced that he was going to dialogue with a Muslim...

June 10, 2018

Tethered To Life

Like the wide world, I was horrified and sad to read that Anthony Bourdain, mere...

June 07, 2018

But I Repeat Myself

I’m supposed to be doing some things—an’t keep them straight there are so many of...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

While You’re At It Marry Yourself

I spent the weekend trying to avoid reading anything about Ireland, or about all those...

May 24, 2018

Read and Pray

If you are on social media at all, you probably have seen that Karen Swallow...

May 22, 2018

The Social Gospel Is Unkind

This is a fascinating article. I haven’t read it with perfect attention, so in no...

May 20, 2018

Where Should The Missionary Go?

Yesterday was crazy busy and I missed the #royalwedding. Don’t spoil it for me because...

May 17, 2018

3 Eye-Rolls for Thursday

I Don’t Know If Its Yanny or Laurel I have not watched that Laurel/Yanny thing....

May 15, 2018

Trampling Down The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden

It is Tuesday, and in a matter of hundreds of hours there will be a...

May 13, 2018

Motherhood and the Search for the Self

Oh good, it’s Mother’s Day, and Fake Ascension, but let’s face it, mostly Mother’s Day....

May 10, 2018

Charity, Fear, and the Internet

Labored through the Bari Weiss column that everyone is freaking out about. Really loved the...

May 09, 2018

The Met Gala and the Attorney General

I am of a variety of schizophrenic minds about the Met Gala. Spent valuable time...

May 02, 2018

Social Media Cannot Possibly Be Making Me Lonely

This alarming study was making its way around the inter-tubes of the web yesterday. I...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

The Orthopedic War On Women

Paused in the middle of bashing my way around the garden yesterday, because, and I'm...

April 12, 2018

Here’s How To Be Less Annoying, An Open Letter To Facebook

Yesterday Facebook plunked this message into my feed, seen, they said, only by me. Here's...

April 05, 2018

Death is Bad

It is Easter week, of course, and so I should be wrapped up in a...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Planned Parenthood Does Not Need A Disney Princess

It seems Planned Parenthood is feeling on the down and outs and wishes there could...

March 27, 2018

Marriage Might Be For The Rich But Jesus Is For Everyone

I happened upon this article/interview this morning and found it interesting, depressing, and probably true,...

March 20, 2018

Another Word Spoiled By Modernity

Woke up and was delighted to discover that the international day of happiness wasn't even...