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This one is beyond puzzling. The Bureau of Prisons has assembled a list of “acceptable” religions books. That means that in prisons across America libraries are being stripped of religious texts not on the approved list. You couldn’t have sold this one in a bad novel. The NYT reports: The Bureau of Prisons said it…

Horrifying story: The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage AIDS. For other causes of lingering pain — burns, car accidents, gunshots, diabetic nerve damage, sickle-cell disease and so on — it issues no estimates…

Some months ago, when Ms. Spears was crashing, I wrote a bit about her as a prodigal daughter – about the prayer that she was, perhaps, turning away from the destructive and to the beautiful. Last night she “returned” to the MTV Music Awards in Las Vegas. It went… poorly. Here is a link if…

Great points in comments and via email (before my email went poof) about my hypocrisy exhaustion. I’m going to focus on two for now: Zirk wonders: …don’t you think we should make a distinction between someone who is honestly striving for holiness and falls versus someone who is just fake? Someone who struggles with sin…
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