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O Me of Little Faith

Hurricanes are no laughing matter, especially for those affected by high winds, evacuation, and flooding. But sometimes their names are pretty funny. And I can’t help it. All day yesterday I saw headlines about Dolly “lashing” Texas — or whatnot — and I kept picturing a giant cloned sheep with a whip in its mouth.…

We’re all guilty of the crime of self-Googling. You’ve done it. I’ve done it. We’ve all done it. Maybe we flat-out Google ourselves manually (which sounds dirty but usually isn’t), or we get all advanced about it and set up Google alerts with our names in it, or we just troll around friends’ blogs looking…

There are three things I am loving today, and they are as follows: 1. MacGyver. Farhad Manjoo — former “Machinist” columnist at Salon who just recently joined the team at Slate — writes about the equal doses of brilliance and lameness that come from rewatching “MacGyver” episodes on DVD as a grown-up. “But to adult…

I was about to start off this post by saying, “Not to toot my own horn, but…” and then I stopped. Because I realized I was, in fact, about to toot my own horn. Because any time someone starts a sentence like this… I don’t mean to brag, but… or I don’t want to sound…

One of my favorite TV shows growing up was The Wonder Years. For a variety of reasons, one of which may or may not have involved having a crush on Winnie Cooper. One of the things I always loved about the show was the opening song. It was Joe Cocker’s live performance (at Woodstock, natch)…

Anyone up for some advance, listy content from Pocket Guide to the Afterlife (one of three Pocket Guides to release next summer)? More than any of the other Pocket Guides I’ve written, this one — about heaven and hell and all the other stuff different cultures believe about life-after-death — really lends itself to list-making.…

We’re back from Chicago. If you want, feel free to read all about our trip at places other than this blog. At the sports blog Prayers for Blowouts, where I’m a contributor, I recap the two Cubs games we watched. At our family blog, where (not surprisingly) I’m also a contributor, I recap just about…

Some of you are new here, but if you’ve were reading this blog back in January, you probably remember that I won a contest put together by the good, creative folks at ChangeEffect in Chicago. (Thanks again to those of you who voted for my story.) The victory prize was a weekend trip to Chicago…

Saggy pants. Personally, that’s a fashion trend I’ve never understood. I’ve tolerated it, sure, because what can a person do when some hip teen can hardly walk around because his zipper keeps getting caught in his shoestrings? I’ve laughed at it, too. Because, man, that looks dorky. But I’ve never thought “There’s something that the…

I grew up Southern Baptist — and I still attend a Southern Baptist church — but my faith journey has taken me through a lot more wide open ecumenical spaces than the narrow Southern Baptist road. I guess I’d describe myself as “Southern Baptist” in church attendance only. In reality, I’m an episcomethodemerging Christian. (Note…
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