In a recent thread on the Rumor Board, folks were asked to give the first thing that popped into their heads when they heard the words “arranged marriage.” I was fascinated by the disproportianate number of responses that were negative in tone. Now I’m not going to advocate a return to arranged marriages in our [...]

I was intrigued by the site of the Fellowshhip of Liturgical Musicians that Tim Sharpe pointed me to. It will be interesting to see what resources they eventually have .
More and more my wife and I find ourselves drawn to the richness and timelessness of liturgy. Though our present church has a fairly “contemporary” [...]

I should really start a new category–”Self Pity”–for entries like this.
In the movie Amadeus, the composer Salieri is driven to madness by a question he cannot answer: Why is the boorish, uncouth young Mozart given this amazing gift to effortlessly create flawless music, while he, Salieri, who works so hard at it, produces, at [...]

With permission of the author, here’s a post by my friend “superdaviss” Dave from the Rumor Forum that said so eloquently what I have been trying to grasp about the grace of God:
I’d like to share from my experience a misunderstanding of grace that I guess I held to for a long time and have [...]

The following is a letter my wife and I sent out to our church today:
Dear Evergreen Brothers and Sisters,
“And now I commend you to God
and to the word of His grace,
which is able to build {you} up
and to give {you} the inheritance
among all those who are sanctified.”
Acts 20:32
One of the ways we describe our earthly [...]

Although my wonder years were all over the Midwest, I’ve always called New Jersey (of just “Jersey” to us natives) as my home state. It’s the place where I went through my adolesence and met my Savior and my sweet wife.
Recently we posted over on the Rumor Board a long list of things you should [...]

Thanks to Mic for the link the Book Quiz.

You’re Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you [...]

My copy of Souvenirs and Postcards, the new self-produced CD from Andrew Osenga, arrived today (with a nice little handwritten note from Andrew’s personal mail clerk, curiously enough also named Andrew Osenga).
This is quite simply a phenomenal album. These are “recordings from the road” (the album’s subtitle), written and recorded in dressing rooms, tour buses, [...]

One of my favorite Super Bowl commercials of the past was from IBM. We see a group of disgruntled office workers who have just been layed off huddled around a computer. They are indulging in a fantasy we’ve all had–telling off the boss because tomorrow it won’t matter. Having finished their highly insulting email, they [...]

Recently someone asked me what my “desert island” TV show would be. This would be the one show I’d want to have in a complete video collection if I were stranded on an island with only a TV set, a VCR, and an electrical power supply (a situation that could only happen on a “reality” [...]