DISQUS

Social Media fasts are important. I took one in October, and sometimes I feel like it's time to start it up again.

I don't want to make too much of virtual eucharists or virtual communities or churches or whatever. But I do think this new way of communicating is here to stay. The best thing we can do is walk through it with as much integrity as possible.

Which sometimes means we unplug and retreat!

Hilarious story! Congrats on being closer to debt free.

After skimming the comments here, I'm pretty tired. But the best logical argument for the goodness requiring some kind of deity is C. S. Lewis's argument in Abolition of Man. He wrote that before he was a Christian, so it's pretty interesting.

It is a good companion to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, oddly enough.

As for the equally tiring science vs. faith debate, John Medina addresses this pretty well in an interview we did with him at TheHighCalling.org.

I'm not saying Lewis or Medina provide absolutely convincing arguments. But they are thoughtful, philosophical inquiries into the limits of treating the scientific method and materialism as the only ways to understand truth.

This post made me smile. I've never been in a high performance go-kart, but my four-year-old and I love riding the go-karts at our local incredible pizza company.

Based on the few interactions I've had with you all since blogworld, I can vouch that you all are doing something right. I've rarely had such great customer service.

Angel, we didn't mean to ignore you. You just registered in some way that bypassed our database.
 
It's also possible that I completely dropped the ball and just missed you. Chalk it up to us being swamped though. I promise it had nothing to do with you personally.

We get very basic cable--something we've considered cutting. The problem is that we'd have to also cut our cable internet access to make any significant savings.
The way I figure it, more channels just means it takes longer to figure out that nothing is on. More and more, I'm watching TV on hulu.com anyway.
(Thanks for the link to HighCallingBlogs.com, by the way.)

At my house we've been watching the Nightmare Before Christmas a lot lately. That seems like a good parable for being Christian in a pluralistic society.

When Jack visits Christmasland and tries to take Santa's place, he isn't being true to himself or his world view. In fact, his world view ends up polluting the place he visits until the whole thing ends rather violently.

Thankfully, Jack is already dead.

But I love the way all of the holidays get together respectfully in the epilogue.

Thanks for the link!