After years of using My Yahoo! as my startup page, I’ve recently switched to Protopage, another cool Web 2.0 app. Protopage takes advantage of widgets, like Windows Vista, for business tasks like calendars, address books, daily planners, and the like, or you can also get games, daily cartoons,...

What do you do when you’re a professor of anthropology at Kansas State University and you need to teach your students about Web 2.0? You make a video and put it on YouTube, of course. Be careful, it’s hypnotic. 2.5 million views so far.

“Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate, and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as He reestablishes the bridge of authentic communion between earth and heaven. The Holy Spirit is...

I’m currently in London, staying in the wonderful abode of fellow blogger Adrian Warnock. Adrian was kind enough to put me and some friends up for a couple nights while we explore the town. I’ll have much more to say about my travels through Britain later, but for now I wanted to drop in...

In a new New Republic article, Thomas Edsall captures what I’ve been trying to say in my recent posts on social conservatism far better than I’ve been able to so far. Edsall says that Rudy Giuliani is the future of the GOP because modern conservatism has been redefined as toughness (usually...

St. John United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, has a new minister…or the same minister with a new identity. The former Rev. Ann Gordon is now the Rev. Drew Phoenix. The change will be discussed at the upcoming Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference, but is not the first time the Baltimore-Washington...

The New York Times reported last week that Forbes, Inc., publishers of American Heritage, has decided to suspend publication of the venerable history magazine. While the magazine isn’t exactly struggling–350,000 subscribers is pretty solid in this day and age–Forbes has decided the...

This is a remarkable video from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. While the real war took four years, this video animates the front lines of the war in four minutes.

Robert Koons, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas – Austin, recently announced that he will be received into the Roman Catholic Church. This comes just weeks after Francis Beckwith, another Texan philosopher at Baylor, announced his return to the Church. On a number of accounts,...

The Economist has a good article about the current travails of the Religious Right, which began well before Jerry Falwell’s death earlier this week. Too closely connected to President Bush, without a first-tier champion in the 2008 race (Brownback or Huckabee are probably the best they have),...