A well-thought-out piece on suffering in light of the many natural disasters recently occurring around the world: Tsunami and Theodicy by David Hart. Christians often find it hard to adopt the spiritual idiom of the New Testament — to think in terms, that is, of a cosmic struggle between good and evil, of Christ’s triumph…

If at first you don’t succeed, eat a banana split. At least that was my motto Wednesday night. Merritt was going to be out late baling hay, and I knew I had to figure out what I’d done to the drop-down menus on ylcf.org. Misplaced javascript is worse than a misplaced modifier. God created the…

A few days later, with great embarrassment, I told my mom that I’d started writing entries for these online friends to read. She told me it was called blogging. I told her no, it couldn’t be blogging. Blogs were written by important people and were about current events or politics. This wasn’t a blog. Couldn’t…

When I was in second or third grade, my parents chose a penmanship curriculum called A Reason for Writing. It was supposed to be a great curriculum… combining the learning of good penmanship with a bit of fun and creativity. At the end of each week, I would pull one of the pre-decorated and lined…