Assistant Village Idiot

Can't believe I had never heard of this site , by Fred Marple out of Frost Heaves, NH. Plenty to check out, including Yoga For Yankees ...

Retriever has a post about her ambivalence listening to testimony at a churchwomens event she dragged herself to out of duty. "Testimo...

Bryn Mawr's is the best . CWCID: Instapundit

Joe Carter at First Things has an essay which includes the best summary of my discomfort with the WWJD trope I have read to date. The rest...

Complete Lenten breakdown tonight. I had a most lovely buttered, salted, baked potato; some exquisite dried up pizza; and 7 Triscuits. Givi...

xkcd, brilliant as usual The short version is to read researcher Peter Gray's The Seven Sins of Our Forced Educational System. Exactly ...

One roots for teams for odd reasons. I have kept an eye on Memphis because I want former Celtic Tony Allen to do well (and he is) and becaus...

People can identify criminals by their photos . The magazine carrying this has not been my favorite over the years - it has been the "...

You can, however, see Mick almost involuntarily starting to bust out at the end. Once you know the rest of the story it's easy to see.

Music is a way of sharing/enforcing your culture on others. A lot of arguments just got clearer for you.

Who knew? I think Emily and Sarah need these.

When I took the title Assistant Village Idiot, I expected some joking about it. I expected the jokes to range from a good-hearted teasing, ...

Well knock me over with a feather. Commenter David likes this book best of the three by a long margin. He suggests it would work well as a...

Ben has his list of top 100 books in his life. Done with rollicking commentary, and inspiring to those who have always been readers. Plent...

The newspaper in the lobby had a photo of an irate protester yelling at a legislator “Your job doesn’t require you to run into a burning bui...

The current adult study at church is a NT survey by the Okenga Institute – distance learning from Gordon Conwell Seminary. I have liked th...

Can we finally drop the idea that the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has anything to do with peace in the Middle-East? The ...

Barack Obama signed off on beginning a war with Libya because the UN had approved it. He was opposed to Iraq because the UN hadn't appr...

If this review does it justice at all, Robert Benne's Good Ways and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics looks quite good. A...

For a book with so many flaws, it certainly sets me thinking. Elements of this post will be used in a later essay on enforcing culture on o...