From Asthmatic Kitty (the record label of Sufjan Stevens):
The hard working souls at Stereogum managed to wrangle the following little video gem from the depths of YouTube. If you don’t smile by the time one of the students pretends to bite into a candy cane, please say hello for us to the three apparitions of [...]

Bethlehem has opened Eden:
Come let us see!
We have found joy hidden!
Come, let us take possession of the paradise within the cave.
There the unwatered stem has appeared,
From which forgiveness blossoms forth!
There the undug well is found
Which David longed to drink of old!
There the Virgin has borne a child,
And at once the thirst of Adam and David [...]

You Belong in Dublin

Friendly and down to earth, you want to enjoy Europe without snobbery or pretensions.
You’re the perfect person to go wild on a pub crawl… or enjoy a quiet bike ride through the old part of town.

What European City Do You Belong In?

Purgatorio is back, after a year-long hiatus. As the theme song of Candid Camera used to say, “It’s fun to laugh at yourself/It’s a tonic tried and true/It’s fun to look at yourself/As other people do.” As an evangelical myself, that’s the spirit in which I take that sites playful jabs at our wacky subculture. [...]

From my son-in-law (Ethan is my five-year-old grandson):
We were driving home the other day and both kids were in the back seat wearing their fireman hats. Ethan asks me, “What does mine say?” I look and it has FDNY on the badge. I tell him that he is a firefighter in New York. [...]

If you saw the post that was formerly here, please know that it was only meant to be an expression of personal sorrow for a friend. No public statements about any situations in which I may be involved or have knowledge of should be read into it. If offense was taken, I apologize. If you [...]

[NOTE: To anyone who may have read an earlier version of this post--I had made some (I thought) oblique reference to a personal situation with a friend. I should not have included that in what really is a post about a general issue in evangelicalism. I apologize for any upset that may have caused. If [...]

Even name tags wouldn’t help…unless they came with multiple appendices and glossaries attached.