Presenting, my version of Barad-dûr…

For those of you not proficient in Tolkienese, Barad-dûr is the Dark Tower from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know the foreboding edifice which is crowned by the Eye of Sauron.
As you might have surmised, my rendition was constructed using children’s oversized lego-like (not Legolas) blocks. My 11 month old son received [...]

“Do Christians do good out of selfish motives?”

A form of this question was posed to me some months ago. The selfish motive proposed by the inquisitor was “going to heaven”.
He asked if that’s why Christians were ‘good’ (whatever that means) only so they could go to heaven. Of course the question itself displays a misunderstanding of what following Christ (being [...]

Enough with the Holocaust comparisons!!!

Another day, another example of reason succumbing to emotionalism. This time coming from the voice of the people, “U.S. Hispanic groups and activists”.
As most people who watch the news know, ICE (Deptartment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been raiding meat processing plants among other businesses suspected of hiring undocumented workers (”illegal aliens” for [...]

Mohler on CNN’s “After Jesus”

Dr. Mohler wrote an analysis of this CNN production. I saw the ad for it on Drudge but didn’t watch it (no cable).
Did anyone watch it? Thoughts? Comments?

“Liberated” women, do not read this…

Hadn’t been to Townhall.com in a while and in a moment of inactivity I decided to see what’s cooking. I enjoy reading several of the columnists there, in fact I have 5 of them linked on this blog.
So there I am checking out the latest columns from the many writers and a column [...]

Bah humbug…unless you’re a believer

While contemplating whether I should put up our faux Christmas tree (yes, it’s Dec. 20 and we have no tree up), I wondered why I really wasn’t as excited about Christmas as I was when I was a child. And realized that it’s all about the presents.
Until I met Christ about five years ago, [...]

The truth behind Santa Claus

When I was in 10th grade, we were required to read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens in sophomore English. It seemed that the whole class enjoyed the book immensely. How do I know? Because when I gave away the ending (I’m a fast reader) during Ms. Heard’s World History [...]

Immaculate Conception, reptile style

A Komodo dragon at a British zoo is pregnant. Big deal right? Well this dragon(ess?) didn’t need a male to get herself pregnatn.  That’s right, an immaculate conception. Apparently there are 70 vertebrate species that are able to do this.
Click here to read the story from Reuters.
According to the report in [...]

Jurassic quote

“I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the [...]

A Moving Experience

No heart-tugging story here, quite literally we moved this weekend.  There are some things that were learned over the course of this tough weekend, they are as follows:

Next time hire movers (for the sake of those helping you move)
No more 3rd floor apartments
 We simply have way too much unnecessary stuff (as evidenced by the things [...]