FWIW

I'm reading The Big Short : a simultaneously entertaining and infuriating account of the subprime mortgage meltdown that sent the U.S. e...

Blaise Pascal, Pensées [172] Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcel...

Bravo to the maker(s) of this video! I recognized many of my favorite movies. Maybe you will too.

The events in State College, PA early Sunday morning were like something seen back in the days when Iron Curtain domino's were falling o...

My wife and I have been watching a DVD series called Dispatches from the Front and I've been showing it to the adult Sunday School clas...

Like the essay on Peruvian farmers I quoted from in the last installment of Wednesday Wendell , Three Ways of Farming in the Southwest chro...

Elizabeth Kolbert writing in The New Yorker : Up until fairly recently, it was possible—which, of course, is not the same as advisable—to se...

That panhandler standing by the side of the road, smelling of cigarettes and alcohol, is potentially closer to the Kingdom of God than the c...

Quote from Pascal's Pensées [100], Kindle edition So each degree of good fortune which raises us in the world removes us farther from t...

My 3-year-old son Samuel likes to listen to a CD of Christian praise songs called Born to Worship . The CD is right. We come into this world...