Tales From Shangri-La

Here in First Things , Dr. Scott Redd shares a charitable and nuanced approach to ecumenicism in light of a letter from Pope Francis to evan...

H ere's an article in The Gospel Coalition on InterVarsity's response to challenges: How Marginalization Can Empower Christians o...

Continuing my project to, each day, print the seventy prayers listed in The Book of Common Prayer . (Brackets [ ] indicate a place to insert...

One for the Church in the West today -- here's a good post dealing with biblical perspective by Scott Redd of  sunergoi  at The Christw...

Here is a site, goodreads , with some of the memorable quotes from Under Secretary Screwtape in C.S. Lewis's  The Screwtape Letters . ...

Paper airplanes: warm, sweet ad about a military childhood, and about fathers, sons, and good neighbors. Paper airplanes

Robert Conquest, a man who described misrule in Stalinist Russia when information was scarce, has died. What an interesting man: historian...

"When we preach the gospel, we preach the promise of new life, new mind, new hope, new purpose, new union with Christ, new compan...

Sunergoi on Water in Psalm 32

Sunergoi on "21 for 1"

For those in search of a simple life, here is a post by my brother about a simple love: http://thegospelcoalition.org/article/simplicity-i...

Teaching Us How to Grieve A few weeks ago, our dear friends lost their adult son in a tragic car accident. The young man had a wife and a ...

Good News is only really good when the first set of news is really bad. I just finished "Til We Have Faces" by CS Lewis. I read ...

If you haven't heard this old song by Michael Card I recommend it. Unlike other kings and kingdoms, which rise and fall, our King and hi...

Texas has long periods of drought. In this clip, one Texas hill-country man discusses how he has improved the situation on his land. Droug...

City Journal  book review by Steven Malanga on questioning the noble savage:  "Welcome to the Jungle" LINK

Interesting post from Justin Taylor quoting some writers on the erosion of religious liberty in America. Interesting to consider: which te...

Read about a true hero,  Helen Denton

In this article, children conceived in rape and incest speak about the value of their lives and the injustice of abortion laws towards other...

Background: Last weekend, David and I attended the CCEF conference on biblical counseling entitled "Not Alone" with a group of ab...