Tales From Shangri-La

This is one of the most famous of Kipling's works -- and one of my most favorite poems. It explains what character looks like in daily l...

Dad from Shangri-La, Vice Admiral J.S. Redd , Ret., signs a statement about Christianity and US foreign policy: "A Christian Declarat...

Brother from Shangri-La, Scott Redd , and Friend of Shangri-La, Jennifer Marshall , write about pragmatic and biblical concerns with intenti...

“If this is a sign of how religious liberty claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom have cause for grea...

This poem was written by Walt Whitman for Abraham Lincoln at his death. I read it at the funeral of my grandfather, a retired Navy Captain a...

I'm often the last to read the thing everyone is buzzing about, but in case you missed it, too: Confessions of Liberal Intolerance  is...

It's 10:30 pm on a Friday night and I'm about to clap shut my laptop. Today is my last day as a homeschooling mom. I have taught a...

There is nothing at all surprising about the world being drawn to baseness and power. That is what people are drawn to, in their nature. ...

Reformed Theological Seminary-DC provides reformed seminary training in a center of American urban culture and politics. Points of distin...

Teetering between Cyncism/Irony and Hyper-Sentimentality.... This author touches on a couple of topics -- some gems here for the social me...

Huge crack develops in Wyoming  visible in earth in week(s) due to water saturation (CBS Denver) Death of Ken Taylor, brave Canadian dipl...

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...

I posted some time ago about a  hard-working, young friend in Hollywood named Allison Mattox working on producing her first film, a short ca...

A short piece on abortion, embryology, and basic logic. Bill Nye's Unscientific Tirade  on Abortion

Wading through the Kim Davis (KY clerk who won't issue marriage licenses in her name) legal situation, here is Eugene Volokh in the Wash...

Succinct, honest, and thoughtful: from First Things : Evangelical Colleges and Self Loathing

In the New York Times , Ross Douthat counters Milbank et al 's arguments that the only way for Planned Parenthood to provide family plan...

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...

Sometimes the bravest thing to do is change your mind. For those pro-choice women considering changing their minds about abortion in light...

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