In all the hype and commercialization, let’s not lose sight of the true meaning of Massacre of the Innocents Day.

This is the time of year for Christmas Devotionals. Here are a few of my favorite Christmas essays and thoughts: (more…)

I rarely link to BCC posts. But when I do, I prefer to link to posts like this.

Our Bishop pointed out to us that modern tithing settlement doesn’t have much of a practical purpose. Back in the day, dropping off some fraction of a beef cow in a tithing envelope every Sunday was impractical, so you needed some settling up where you brought in two steers and a heifer, and the Bishop gave you back a lamb and a few bales of hay to make it all square. Tithing settlement is a boost for the Bishop since he gets to interact with his non-”problem” members, but that’s about it. Instead, tithing settlement has–dare we say it?–a liturgical value. (more…)

I can’t vouch for the quality of it, but apparently there is a body of evidence that families with sons are less likely to divorce. (more…)

Here’s a fairly comprehensive statistical look at the Saints in America. (more…)

I am seeing a lot of people now who use italics or whatever to emphasize Anglo-Saxon emphatic word. W.t.F! The word is losing its power.  Time was when it was its own emphasis. (more…)

Man was a stud.

Muscular Christianity preached by the muscular Christian.

The rallying cry of the pro-abortion people has always been that a woman has the right to choose, like a bloodthirsty medieval baron with the rights of high, middle, and low justice. If justice is what you want to call it. (more…)

I like this story.

This elaborate kind of reasoning sounds, well, elaborate, but if you grant a difference between man and ape, then you have to grant that something similar to this happened.

You might laugh.

Read this essay.

If patriotism isn’t your last refuge, the voter will take your patriotism more seriously.