Empire State Building
Empire State BuildingOriginally uploaded by millinerd

The Year in Beer
I cannot improve upon my liturgically-minded Thanksgiving food and drink recommendations from last year. What I can do is update the beers. Come to think of it, I've let an entire year pass without alerting you to my beer picks. There was no spring beer that particularly arrested me, but the beer of the summer was

Blogging c. 2010: The State of the Art
Blogging is dead (2007), and dead again (2009), providing occasion to comment on its next interval of aliveness. Here are twelve related assertions, some obvious, hopefully some original (number 6 is the heart of the matter). Rebuttals or amendments welcome.1. Blogrolls barely matter anymore. Updating them is tedious, and rarely do they reflect a given blogger's current reading habits. They've been replaced by feed aggregators such as google reader, which do accurately reflect reading habits. 2.

Mixed Messages
So the Vatican wants to support art to the point of backing the 2011 Biennale, but they won't back cinematic art of Twilight 2? What's the deal? "Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be." -James 3:10Please note: This post is intended to be humorous.

evangelicalism defined:
A group of people who ask, interminably, "What is evangelicalism?"