While I was giving the kids a bath, my older daughter asked what we would be singing in church on Sunday. I said that OSLC does Matins on the first Sunday of the month, so both kids started singing Matins in the bathtub.
Some things one shouldn’t resist, so I jumped in until we [...]
In August Nuradin Abdi pled guilty to one charge of providing material support to Al Qaeda and was indicted on three other charges. FOXNews now reports that he was sentenced to 10 years.
Abdi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support for terrorists. Three charges were dropped as part of his plea [...]
Updated: November 25, 2:15pm.
The last Sunday of the Church Year is one of my favorites. It is the last time the word “Alleluia” is sung in worship until Christmas, because the penitential Advent season starts next week in the Western churches. It is also the Sunday we really focus on the end times.
The suggested [...]
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We went to Sesame Street Live yesterday at the Schottenstein Center of the Ohio State University campus. It was a pretty good show, and the kids enjoyed it. There were several adult tie-ins, accomplished by using old rock songs or putting new [...]
Priest Holmes, owner of nine Chiefs career records and eight single season records, announced his retirement today.
The comeback itself was remarkable, returning from head and neck injuries sustained in 2005. He started last Sunday and the week before, after Larry Johnson was injured. Sunday Holmes re-injured his neck in Indianapolis.
For all you heard about Holmes, [...]
There are reasons why our celebration of Thanksgiving is better than Christmas.
Preparation time for Thanksgiving is usually two days, one for groceries and one for celebration, unless you’re my mother-in-law, with which you started preparing two days ago. Prep time for Christmas, if you are my neighbor down the street, started last week.
Nobody loses or [...]
Senator Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate, has admitted that he tried drugs as a teen, AP writes. The same day, Fox News reports that Rudy respects Obama’s honesty.
Gone, I suppose, are the days when Bill Clinton felt the need to deny he inhaled pot and when President Bush had to feel shame about previous [...]
Drudge linked in red this article (link dead) from Yahoo News, which states that a new scientific report shows a link between wireless technology and autism.
In the first paragraph, the publisher (PressReleaseHelp) states that the study was published by “the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine.” There is no Google hit for this association [...]
