Stump Speeches

I got a new book in the mail today: The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith , by Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp.  The latt...

In my blogging absence the last couple of months, there were numerous things that could have been blogged about.  This raises the tree-fa...

You (my faithful reader) may not have noticed, but I've been out of the blogosphere for awhile.  I'm not sure why... I just felt ...

By vocation and avocation, I do a fair amount of reading.  A few weeks ago, a started to feel strain in my eyeballs, especially when I was ...

On this day in 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkein was born in South Africa.  That means that ten years ago today would have been his eleventy-...

It's an end-of-year tradition for me to comb back through my reading journal and see how many books I've read during the year.  I...

According to the stats that this free blogging platform provides, this is my 200th published post.  I thought I'd use this as an opport...

I inherited a bunch of corny jokes from my father, and I'm trying to be faithful and pass them on to the next generation.  Among them a...

On April 16th, 2007 there was a shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech that claimed the lives of 32 people.  At the time, I was the V...

I stumbled across a music downloading site called NoiseTrade (find it here ).  It appears to be on the up and up.  Perhaps everyone else ou...