Tales From Shangri-La

" Nirvana " by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVzCURucaA http://talesfromshangri-la.blo...

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

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

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

My retrospective on Elisabeth Elliot at The Gospel Coalition blog. Elisabeth Elliot has died . I didn’t know her, but this feels persona...

Stumbled across a few good quotes, the kind that help bring perspective in a sentence or two. "In my walks, every man I meet is my su...

Because I can.... Two men lip synch mother and aunt talking

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity" (Simone Weil). Fully, completely, unhurriedly, until it's all been s...

I want to draw your attention to two Christian ministries people in our church are heavily involved in here in North Texas. This is really...

Mid-century (as in non-"courtship") American dating practices can remove heavy pressure and unwholesome emotional intensity in dat...

We found a new eagle cam to watch. Mother and father eagle work together to raise babies. Love the babies' big orange feet! Occasional...

Caitlyn Flanagan (an uber-upper class working mom) writes a frank (slightly coarse language alert) discussion of feminist history, unintende...

God with Us (cont.) The Christian Counseling and Education Foundation’s (CCEF) conference two weekends ago centered on the theme, “No...