Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
Susan Sontag, in today’s Bruderhof Daily Dig

Rob May of BusinessPundit.com has started publishing his full posts via RSS. Rob’s always had great content, and now it’s fully accessible in RSS. Thanks, Rob.
On a related note, I’ve been reading RSS feeds in NewsGator for several months now, largely because of the convenience (it seamlessly integrates into Microsoft Outlook). But […]

I googled “God is in control” and got 75,000 hits, but searched a Bible concordance and found 0.
From Jenell Paris

This week’s PhotoFriday topic is youth, and this is my submission for it (full size version here). This is Kierstin in May 2001, on vacation in the Outer Banks. As I remember, this was taken as we were packing up to leave. She must have been worn out from eating so much […]

OK, he’s yellow. And politically he’s been very purple - loved by both blue and red alike. But VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer thinks that’s going to change, and soon:
But for the last 30 years, diversity has meant gender and race. As a result, liberals and conservatives could agree on their children’s programming. Sesame […]

Great article by Andy Crouch at Christianity Today:
But our longing for “authenticity” also bears a suspicious resemblance to the latest plot twist in the story of consumer culture: the tendency to rapidly replace the squeaky-clean franchise with the “authentic” franchise. The leather seats in our sport-utility vehicle caress our stonewashed jeans as we put some […]

I’ve got four Gmail invitations that I’ll be glad to send to the first four people who comment or email me with a request.