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….that “deliver us from evil” implies that we can expect to run into evil every now and then.

According to last weekend’s Pioneer Press, average Twin Cities snowfall is 38 inches, but we’ve only had 12 inches this year. Bah. MFH pointed out, though, that this year it has stayed cold, so that measly 12 inches is still on the ground. But it looks like we’ll be having warmer weather […]

The June/July 2006 issue of Seed magazine had a little blurb about a study on intercessory prayer, which found that heart surgery patients that were prayed for didn’t have any fewer complications, and that patients who knew for sure that they would be prayed for had a higher rate of complications than those that knew […]

TulipGirl has been blogging Ezzo Week 2006 this week, see here, here, here, and here. Ezzo is a self-styled authority on parenting, and has written a number of books, including On Becoming Babywise. There are plenty of things wrong with his books, from bad theology to bad breastfeeding advice, and woe to the […]

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I picked up a copy of the Minnesota Women’s Press (the local feminist paper) while we were out and about today. This column was, well, interesting: a Bloomington woman found herself without a car to drive to the transit Park and Ride (a mile and a half away), and transit adventures ensued.
She ended […]

Some things that are floating through my head after wandering around the blogs:
I get the impression from some feminist blogs that they really hold both these beliefs, at the same time: 1) Abstinence does not prevent either pregnancy or STDs, and 2) Condoms are super-magical, perfectly reliable protection against both pregnancy and STDs–most of […]

Linda Hirshman is so far out there that even many feminists don’t agree with her. In this article, she chronicles some of the reactions she’s gotten:
Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine the American Prospect last December, saying that women who quit their jobs to stay home […]

I’m reading The Mystery of Marriage, by Mike Mason:
….To be married is not to be taken off the front lines of love, but rather to be plunged into the thick of things. It is to be faced, day in and day out, with the necessity of making over and over again, and at deeper […]

Choosing Home is interviewing (here and here) the author of a book about first-generation Christians becoming parents: Building the Christian Family You Never Had. I think I’m going to have to get the book; MFH and I both come from non-Christian families, although I at least had a Christian grandma next door. […]