Germs in the Chalice?
Does Communion Cup Runneth Over With Germs?

NPR Promotes the Refiormation and Poetry
John Keats said, "Poetry should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

The Tyranny of the Grub Grabbers
'Nuff said.

Vanity: The Common Vice of Fallen Men
Pascal #627 Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a rough, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers, and even philosophers want them; those who write against them want to enjoy the prestige of having written well, those who read want the prestige of having read them, and perhaps I who write this want the same things, perhaps my readers . . .

A Distinctly Christian Reading of the Scriptures
In my youth, this is how we studied the Bible: We sat in a circle. An slightly older kid would tell us what chapter and book we were studying. Then we would each read one passage out loud, sequentially. After everyone had read a passage, we would go back, in order, and each would kid would say what that passage - I am not making this up - meant to him. Whatever was said - no matter how outrageous, unreasonable, or heretical - was affirmed. We could not give wrong answers because we were talking about what the passage meant to us, that is, how it made us feel, or what it made us think about, or how God might be speaking directly and newly to us.