What are Canadians so blase about Father's Day?

[via jordoncooper.com]

The More Hideous The Death

What a beautiful word is that word "hero"; the more hideous the death, the more beautiful the name it is necessary to find for it.

[via Lew Rockwell.com, HT: The Rambling Prophet 2]

...each of us will stare out into the unknown and long for a weapon that just isn’t there.

[via Stuff Christians Like]

Those Who Stay, Those Who Leave

Great natural disasters, such as hurricanes or tidal waves, strike our world. Where there is warning, a few brave souls usually choose to remain in their homes. The vast majority of the inhabitants flee the coming devastation. After the storm abates, those who are able to do so return home. And at times there is a pattern that emerges between the lines of the news reports that are written for the world to read. Often there is a striking contrast between those who stay and those who leave. The hearts of the survivors are often full of gratitude that they are still alive. The returnees at times see only devastation and feel only anguish. The one who is lashed by the storm is often the one who is grateful.

from Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, by Kenneth E. Bailey, [HT: Radical Womanhood]

Is there too much faith put in faith?

[via Ponderings on a Faith Journey]

The Idolatry of America-- Martin E. Marty

[HT: Ponderings on a Faith Journey]

Children of Uxoricide- When One Parent Kills The Other...What Happens to the Children?

[via Emotional Abuse and Your Faith]

Bikini-inspired Impatience

[via the view from her]

On Obama Quitting His Church

[via The Rambling Prophet 2]

Never Far Apart

A couple of weeks ago I read an article in the New York Times about a Buddhist couple who chose to live their lives never being separated by more than fifteen feet. They shared food, books, bed, and the rest of their daily existence never far apart.

It struck me that that is a level of committed intimacy that most of us couldn’t handle, and I wondered how we would be different with each other, having shared that level of intimacy on a daily basis. {continue...}

[via Randall Friesen]