Finding out that there was an annotated “Wind in the Willows,” I just had to put it on my Christmas wish list. I had been assuming that even though other annotated classics have turned out to be disappointments, there was no way anyone could ruin “Wind in the Willows.” Right?
Wrong. But the book did give […]

Woo hoo! The blog just passed the five-year mark! Virtual cake all around, some fun with stats and some best-of stuff.

First post was on August 14, 2004. Since then, there have been:

874 posts
2,196 comments
4,737 spam comments screened out (You’re welcome.)

And since January 1, 2007:

There have been 31,631 visits from 121 countries.
Readership has gone down by […]

From “Daily Lives” today …
The hearts of other sinners have been softened by discussions with pious people. You, too, go and have a discussion. If you hear word after word of discussion, will not one word strike you that will be unto the separation of soul and spirit, according to the thoughts of the heart? […]

I’m not sure, but this may have been the longest time I’ve gone between blog entries. I’m kind of hoping that enough people subscribe to RSS feed that they haven’t been dropping by only to find nothing new time after time.
But what can you do? Like most of the Ortho-bloggers I read, blogging is […]

I’m going on an Eastern Europe cruise in late May, which goes to some places I don’t know much about. So my question to all you international types out there is, is there anything in the following cities that a person really, really doesn’t want to miss?

Dublin, Ireland
Barrow, England
Rosyth (Edinburgh), Scotland
Copenhagen, Denmark
Helsinki, Finland
Talinn, Estonia
St. Petersburg, […]

If you don’t get out in the blogosphere much anymore, you might be missing it, but there’s a bit of a hullabulloo going on about a new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) came out. The numbers aren’t good for any Christian, but they’re probably the most depressing for Evangelicals. For instance(*):
Since 1990, the last time […]

This is an update to the last post. I was a little too flip, and I wanted to be clear about stem cell research. There IS promise in stem cell research, but there’s also a GOOD alternative to destroying embryos.

Couple things from this list of the media-reported myths about stem cell research, just to help […]

I shouldn’t post stuff this late, but I just read this and it makes me sick.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s announcement Monday that he is overturning his predecessor’s policies toward embryonic stem cells also will include a broad declaration that science — not political ideology — would guide his administration. …
“We’ve got eight years of […]

While working on a special section for parents for a client newspaper, I was plowing through the boatload of press releases aimed at that desirable market when I came across this one(*):
Mutual of Omaha Foundation Announces Partnership with Non-Profit KaBOOM! to Build Playgrounds in Six Cities in 2009
(CSRwire) WASHINGTON D.C. - January 29, 2009 - […]

As I said, it seems to be my season for weddings. Another time to see a girl you knew as part of a family become a young woman as part of a couple.
It is still something that defies explanation. Of all the mysteries of the Church, this may be the only one where the world […]