Over at ChristianityToday‘s Hermeneutics blog, Andrea Palpant Dilley wrote an interesting defense of her decision to put her kid in a private school. Her main point, and I think it’s usually a good one these days, is that we need to tone down the vitriol and actually see the complexity, the nuance in peoples’ situations.

To that end, Mrs. Dilley ( Read more... )

Apparently ignorant people are saying idiotic things on the internet. In YouTube comments, no less. Stop the presses!

People in the South are trying to prove that snow is actually fake because it’s a government conspiracy

Normally I’d go on about the stuff I need to get through after taking most of yesterday and today off from getting things done. ( Read more... )

I’m not going to use the word “misogyny” after this line right here. Other people have called him stronger things: sexist, homophobic, even racist. For a lot of people those terms have a tinge of intention to them (you can’t be, say, a sexist, without intentionally trying to push women down), and I’m honestly not sure that’s what’s going on here. ( Read more... )

Peter Seeger has long been one of my favorite musicians for the nice blend of folk, Southern Gospel, blues, and the like. A wonderful musician whose songs were deeply human and always uplifting to listen to.

He had apparently sailed west, which is my cue to share a song of his. Who am I to fight tradition?

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A few days, Sevenswells (LJ user sevenswells) posted a very good, critical review of the Sherlock episode “His Last Vow” along with an alternate ending that makes significantly more sense than the one Team Moffat gave us. While I don’t agree with her on every point, her criticisms did help me think about a major difference between the Doyle books and the BBC ( Read more... )

This whole post is pretty much one giant spoiler for the tail end of “His Last Vow” and everything leading up to it. If you haven’t seen it and are avoiding spoilers, you should probably stop reading now.

Still with me? You’re sure you don’t want to stay spoiler-free? Good.

Setting aside certain not-dead-after-all (perhaps) consulting criminals, ( Read more... )

Cleaning our my RSS feed, I came across an oldish story that sparked my interest. It never affected me and the article I had saved on my “to-read” list is coming on a month old, making me question the wisdom of diving into it. But it’s such a missed opportunity, and such a case study in the kind of opportunity so many Christians race by these days ( Read more... )

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Many thanks to the many Laytons, Holcombes, and Racheds, and assorted friends who gifted me the following:

• Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years by Tom Standage [ebook]
• Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth [ebook]
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander [ebook]
• Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber [ebook]
• Do Nothing and Everything ( Read more... )