Will Postmoderns Support the Church?

People who love the church — in some semblance of the way we have come to know it in the past 100 years — have cause for concern about how long that model will be sustainable. Attendance is generally down, for one thing, as postmoderns and younger...

Scary thoughts

People who love the church — in some semblance of the way we have come to know it in the past 100 years — have cause for concern about how long that model will be sustainable. Attendance is generally down, for one thing, as postmoderns and younger...

Well, that’s a switch …

When archaeologists discover cylindrical objects made of stone or clay in the remains of ancient dwellings, they often identify them, when no practical use seems apparent, as phallic symbols used in some sort of fertility rites. Firedrills or phalli? Photo from Plos...

Cleaning house

I bought three hours’ worth of a house cleaning service on Living Social some months back because the price seemed right and I figured it would come in handy. I keep the house pretty straight, but I figured there are some things a bachelor is bound to miss. I...

Those people

A different take on “Those People,” from Zazzle.comIt occurs to me that the mass shootings that have made such headlines lately are extreme instances of a common practice that we would do well to think about: the ease with which we label people who differ,...