I have been in DC since Sunday night with our class visiting the Center for Strategic and International Studies. We had an amazing day yesterday and I was able to top it off with a cold beverage and chatting with Ed Cook. Good times. Then, after a lovely meal, I […]
George F. Will has an excellent and fair summary of where the Episcopal church finds itself. You can find the article in the Washington Post: A Faith’s Dwindling Following. The summary is fairly straightforward: As the church’s doctrines have become more elastic, the church has contracted. It celebrates an “inclusiveness” that […]
This is too funny not to share. (And for the record, poopy or no, I would love one of these new MacBooks). From TUAW: Thanks to what appears to be a character encoding problem on a French version of the Apple website, the MacBook announcement — meant to say “perfectly […]
Cathleen Falsani, the “God Girl” of The Dude Abides, offers a review of a new book by Andy Crouch, Culture Making. Andy was, in addition to everything else about him that Falsani says below, was a classmate of mine (or I of his) at Cornell. I haven’t read the book […]
This one is a bit rude but I offer it especially for our dear Dr. West. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
I don’t often post my sermons here largely because while I write my sermons out they are not really meant to be read and are more like an detailed outline. This one is a little more complete but I particularly wanted to post it because I am interested in any […]
For this strip to make sense (which it never really does) you need to know that the gentleman in the suit is “Monty” who is, for lack of a better term, God. The gentleman in the overalls (or “coveralls” if you are from certain regions) is “Thorax” who “sells strange […]
The Economist has a short article on a new edition of the Talmud. I haven’t spent much time with this so I am not sure how it is revolutionizing Talmud study… For Orthodox Jews, lifelong study of the Talmud is the supreme religious precept. But for many earnest students through […]
In the absence of anything spiritually uplifting (or at least distracting) I offer this: Classic Album Art A friend just sent this to me and I had to share it. No comments necessary, just good, clean fun. Um. What he said.