A large portion of Christianity deals with how you respond to other people (and to God). Unfortunately, this is an aspect of Christianity that is rarely talked about in church – which makes you wonder what kind of Christianity we’re really teaching people about.
In thinking about this today, I thought it would be a good [...]

This makes me sick to my stomach:
Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren’t enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang’s wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and [...]

A new study asserts that gay unions between existed some 600 years ago in Medieval Europe:
Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe, a historian now says.
Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted as supporting the prevalence of homosexual relationships hundreds of years ago, said Allan Tulchin [...]

Why do people feel the need to gossip? I don’t mean to exclude men by the title of this post–they gossip too–but the event that triggered this post was a pair of hens cackling.
I can’t claim to be blame-free when it comes to gossip. Sometimes I do it because it just feels good to make [...]

Check out this great rant about Fast Food Frustrations. Oh so true!

I’ve recently been meditating on Chris Tomlin’s version of that old hymn “The Wonderful Cross.” There’s some good stuff in that song, but one line rises above the rest whenever I hear the song:
Love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life, my all.
So this week’s Christian carnival is going to be divided into [...]

The new Casting Crowns CD, The Altar and the Door, was released today. I pre-ordered it weeks ago because they’re my favorite band. They’re also a Christian band. And in spite of all of my conflicted feelings about Christianity, I was still really looking forward to this CD. I had mixed feelings about it, of course, [...]

So instead of bombarding your feed readers with all of the great stuff I find through Stumble Upon, I’ve decided to do a weekly round-up. I’ve never had a regular feature before, so we’ll see how well this goes. Enjoy!
Learn 500 mostly useless facts – like the plastic things on the end of shoelaces are [...]

Bart: What religion are you?
Homer: You know, the one with all the well-meaning rules that don’t work out in real life. Uh… Christianity.
Episode: 3F21 Homerpalooza

I stumbled onto a site that tells an incredible story: the story of patients at Willard Asylum in New York state. Some of the stories are absolutely heartbreaking – the Japanese sailor who got lost in NY while in port and was wrongly institutionalized for more than 30 years because no one could understand him [...]