Assistant Village Idiot

Ben points out that since that kid gave grade-school compliments to LeBron during the NBA playoffs, telling him he had a great game because ...

There was an essay at Slate ranting that two spaces after a period is no longer necessary and just wrong .  As if.  It is left over from the...

I met knitblogger and simple-living attempter Kris Causton, who was the week's speaker at Pilgrim Pines.  I never go to those sessions m...

Lewis starts right out hitting me between the eyes in his 1941 essay "The Weight of Glory". If you asked twenty good men today w...

Gone for less than a week.  120 emails.  87 were reports of comments here.  81 of those were spam, mostly ads for xanax or valium.  It's...

In his introduction to The Weight of Glory , Lewis reports why he declined to edit the essays for this edition, even though some of the idea...

I have lent out or given away many copies of CS Lewis's The Weight Of Glory over the years, and thus have not reread it for some time. ...

I lied when I said I care only about the theological connection when people reflexively prefer the natural to the artificial.  I also care a...

Borrowing money to go to a school is not the same thing as education.  The one may lead to the other, but it isn't even a 50% overlap.  ...

Reader and commenter Mark Stoler has his own interesting blog, Things Have Changed .  Current offerings include the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, a...

It is a staple of Bible studies to mention that the Gnostics thought spirit was good and matter bad, and how this common belief in general...

I had forgotten how bad the footing is, and how much harder that makes the hike.  I suppose I should be glad that steepness per se does not...

I wrote the 100th anniversary congregational history for my Lutheran church in the 1980's. My grandmother had written the 75th and my g...

Whenever someone complains to you about the lyrics of music today.

Matthew Berry, "The Talented Mr. Roto," has an essay on fantasy football that has more general applicability.  Even if you don...

I am rereading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and find I am physically unable to read it to myself, however hard I try.  ...

In the discussion of the Olympic opening ceremonies, Dubbahdee mentioned that Brits are quite fond of the NHS – something we don’t often...

Finn Cecil McGoldrick, 7lbs 3,  7/30/12 @ 5:53PM at Tufts Medical Center. Everyone fine. Sessil, or Seesil?

To parents, civilization is just a job.  Where it's going and what it's doing are of only distant interest. Garrison Keillor.

In the Chick-fil-A brouhaha, I am running across a fair number of Christians, and Christian sites, which put forth the idea that because gay...