Rest on the Flight to Egypt
The Advent Season begins today.In my blog header you'll see that I'm using Luc Olivier Merson's Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1879) as my Advent banner.This is one of my favorite Advent paintings.I love Rest on the Flight into Egypt for a

Marley's Ghost: "'Mankind was my business."
The family and I went to see Disney's A Christmas Carol on Thanksgiving Day. We loved it. It was scary (our nine year old held his mother's hand throughout the movie). A Christmas Carol is, of course, essentially a ghost story.Wa

Happy Thanksgiving
One of those weird American traditions. The Annual Presidential Pardoning of the Turkey:Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Notes on Demons & The Powers: Part 4, The Language of the Powers
Let's return to the question raised in the first post of this series: What are we to do with the passages about demons in the bible?I, personally, find Walter Wink's work in his book Naming the Powers a good place to start in answering this question. Specifically, in Naming the Powers

Does watching football lead to domestic violence?
Fascinating and sad article over at Slate. Check out Ray Fisman's article Illegal Contact: Does watching football lead to domestic violence?Fisman reviews recent research that suggests that when the home team has a painful defeat we see an uptick in domestic violence, wi