World Magazine has given its evangelical imprimatur to Bill Mallonee’s “Dear Life” CD.
C’mon, you have to buy it now. I mean, World Magazine. That’s like the Pope canonized it or something.

Yes, I know, not even half a day and I’m already breaking my vow of silence as exams approach.
But it’s for a worthy cause….reality TV!
Our good friends John and Malia Dawson are the subject of this week’s episode of Take My Kids, Please, a reality show Friday’s 10 p.m. on the Women’s Entertainment network.
John [...]

Don’t be expecting much more than an occassional snippet on these pages for the next three weeks. My LSW and I are about to enter the black hole known as graduate level final exams. Our last class is this Friday morning. A week from Thursday is the Greek exam, with Hebrew the next day. Then [...]

The article below gives some details from the memorial service for Cpl. Bradley Arms, USMC, a former student of both Karyn and me, who died in Fallujah last week.
Hundreds attend Marine’s memorial
By Kate Andrews
Charlottesville Daily Progress staff writer
Sunday, November 28, 2004
From the back of the quiet sanctuary came a muted call,
alerting the flag carriers to [...]

I know, everyone hates a name dropper…but who can resist!
My recent summary of Rev. Tim Keller’s sermon “Arguing with Jesus” brought forth a question from Greg Sharpe about the identity of Judas of Galilee, mentioned in the sermon as background for the Pharisees/Herodian’s questioning of Jesus about the head tax. We were set straight today [...]

From the Richmond, VA, Times Dispatch:
Virginia Marine is killed in Iraq
The Charlottesville man is remembered as a natural leader
BY JULIE STAVITSKI
MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
Monday, November 22, 2004
CHARLOTTESVILLE - Cpl. Bradley Thomas Arms, a member of the Marine Reserves and a Charlottesville native, died in Fallujah, Iraq, from small arms fire on Friday.
Arms, 20, a 2002 [...]

This weekend, the war in Iraq jumped out of the headlines and into my heart (and Karyn’s).
Corporal Bradley Thomas Arms, USMC, one of my first sixth grade students in Charlottesville and also one of Karyn’s students a few years later, was killed in action this past Friday.
Brad volunteered for the Marines while he was a [...]

I’ve just discovered a fellow Traveler who seems to be, if not on the same highway as me in his Sacred Journey, at least on a parallel route. Michael Spencer, aka the Internet Monk, is a refreshing and snappy (and opinionated!) writer.
I appreciate Mr. Spencer’s take because, much like my wife and I, he’s [...]

Alisa, a friend of mine through the caedmonscall.net Rumor Forum, recently posted a beautiful piece about going through life with a birthmark that covers a good part of one side of her face. Her post was, to say the least, inspiring.