Tonight we’re gonna panic like it’s 1873
The New York Times has a great article which compares the Panic of 1873 to today’s financial crisis. Most people, of course, are familiar with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but nobody except us...
View ArticleJohn Piper: ‘Admiring and Disillusioned, I Turn from Lincoln to Jesus’
Today is the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. As Americans, we can be extremely proud of Lincoln’s accomplishments in holding the country together during and after the Civil War and for formally...
View ArticleHow much emphasis should be placed on Christianity when teaching history?
Apparently, education is a popular topic this week. Yesterday, I mentioned the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act being debated in the U.S. House, which would give the Department of Education...
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A stunning visual guide to the census of 1870
Just in time for this year’s census, Radical Cartography has published a bunch of amazingly detailed (and beautiful) maps and charts from the census of 1870. The data essentially reinforce what you...
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Red, white, and blue states
In honor of Independence Day, I’ve been watching the 13-part History Channel series The Revolution, a documentary on America’s war for independence. And over the past couple of days, I’ve kept coming...
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Politically, today is 1860
I’ve been reading an excellent book about the 1860 presidential election, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War by Douglas Egerton. In the...
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March Madness 2014: My picks
Well, kids. The calendar says it’s March, so it must be that time again in which for two weeks we pretend to know and care about college basketball while we inwardly pine for the beginning of football...
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The End. (Mostly)
Today Christy takes her last final exam of nursing school (her final final?). Next week she’ll have her official pinning ceremony and graduation and next month she’ll sit for the NCLEX exam to earn...
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Checking out of checking in
Haven’t you heard? Check-in apps are sooo 2009. At least that seems to be the lesson learned first by Gowalla and now by Foursquare. You remember Gowalla, right? The Austin-based David to Foursquare’s...
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40 years in the wilderness
Everybody drinks the water from the murky pool Surely as you think you’re well You know your belly aches Everybody learns religion at the blind man’s school Will you reach for heaven When the preacher...
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Fences and neighbors
We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay where you are until...
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The new normal
Well, it’s a new school year, just like last year except completely different. The past two years, I’ve had one daughter in middle school, one daughter in elementary, and one wife in nursing school....
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No coffee for squirrels
I have a confession to make. I’ve started another blog. Well, sorta. I’ve actually started a tumblr, which I don’t consider a “blog”, per se. But I guess technically it is. Anyway, you get the idea....
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A time to mend
My mom is dying. In the last nine months she’s spent maybe a week total at home. The rest of the time has been spent moving from the hospital to a rehab center to a managed care facility and back to...
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In defense of Spotify
Taylor Swift recently made a lot of headlines for pulling all her music from Spotify, arguing that the streaming service was hurting album sales and essentially driving her into bankruptcy, killing...
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Falling in
I don’t know how I feel about the word “introvert”. Introverted, extroverted, Type-A, melancholy, choleric, INTJ, ESTJ, ESPN, whatever. All ways we try to figure out how to measure each other, define...
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When Chrome gets rusty
Eric Limer of Gizmodo recently wrote about why he had finally given up on Google Chrome and gone back to Firefox. “These days Chrome is bloated, slow, and constantly crashing on me,” he complained....
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It is finished
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. — John 19:30 I have a tendency to whine. A lot. Maybe not as much now as in the past,...
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The End. (Mostly)
Today Christy takes her last final exam of nursing school (her final final?). Next week she’ll have her official pinning ceremony and graduation and next month she’ll sit for the NCLEX exam to earn...
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The party’s over
For the past couple of years I’ve struggled with what to do with this site. Do I keep it up, keep chugging away at it, keep using it as, what, my public journal? My Bible study? My witty yet...
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