If the soccer gods were in charge of the game of tennis, and of Wimbledon in particular, instead of a 70-68 marathon record-breaking 5th set, what would we have had?  Yep, you guessed it.  First service ace wins! Or, each person gets three serves and the most aces wins.

An element of the monastics that seems passed by is the heroic efforts some of them endured or attempted. Here on the top of Skellig Michael, one hour boat ride from shore, 12 monks constructed over 600 steps from the side of the mountain to the top and at the top built bee hive looking…

Aseem Shukla is not happy about the conversions of Bobby Jindal (from Hinduism) and Nikki Haley (from Sikhism). Shukla is a Hindu himself, and finds the public disavowal of their Dharma faiths by Jindal and Haley as well as their vocal and public profession of their Christian faith something for public concern.  But, I hear…

James Emery White thinks evangelicalism is teetering over a precipice, and his new book — Christ Among the Dragons: Finding Our Way Through Cultural Challenges  — probes topics that are in need of serious discussion.  Orthodoxy is one such topic. Orthodoxy is a shibboleth — that is, it is something that one can either pronounce or…

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