Happy New Year! I hope your party last night was fun, and even offered you some solace in a world that is looking rougher all the time. Thomas Hobbes...
It's a new year, time to take a fresh look at the focus of this blog. I'd like to solicit your input on two fronts: a) Is this blog working fo...
Just spotted this article by Matthew Parris in the Times Online. It's a great contrarian point of view. Missionaries have done a lot of good and hav...
It's 2009 tomorrow - time to get to work on those self-help projects! Here's the best one I know - apply the Pareto Principle. The Pareto Principle ...
It's been a wild year financially for many of you. Some of you have taken huge losses in the market or in your real estate holdings. As we approac...
WARNING - If you're hoping for inspiration, you'd do better to move along to someone else's blog today. I'll be back to normal tomorrow. How are th...
While the church around the world is booming, in the west, we often find ourselves back on our heels wondering where we went wrong. But the church i...
One of my pet peeves is people who ask for prayer and never report back about what happened. So I'm devoting this first week of the year to lettin...
I'm excited to break the fast today. We're going to go get some pizza at Little Italy and give God thanks for food! Nothing like a fast to make yo...
This week I'm following up on some stories where you, our blog readers, have made a difference. Too often we feel impotent in a world full of pain, ...
