College shouldn’t be considered a take-it-or-leave-it decision. Nowadays, deciding against college is like deciding to not graduate from high school.

Your thoughts?

We’d have no access to God if we couldn’t talk about him as if he were more like us than he is.

Michelle Mitchell writes applauding mom blogs.

I’d like to think that 22 Words has some mom blog attributes (without the mom part).

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out… where the doer of deeds could have done better.

-Theodore Roosevelt

My post on squirrel trapping didn’t address the propriety of exterminating domiciliary vermin.

So to that desperate Googler, I say—Heavens, yes!

I wrote a how-to about Google Reader.

My goals:

1. Convince you RSS is wonderful.
2. Have you subscribing to blogs within 5 minutes.

If [you’re] annoyed that someone out there is reading a book [you] don’t like, then here’s a suggestion: Write a better book.

-Michael Spencer

I’m in a marriage of convenience.

I love Molly. She loves me.

It would be terribly inconvenient to be with anyone else.

Understanding teenage rebellion only as sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll implies that the goal is celibacy, sobriety, and employment. It’s not.

It’s Jesus.

I spoke at a parenting class today. My article on how to love your prodigals was my outline.

What would you add?

He did recordings in 1995 and 1975. This is from the latter.

Does that mean latter chronologically or latter in the sentence?

My wife has a pretty great comment thread going on about the fear of popping balloons and opening those tubular refrigerator biscuits.

Some folks disagree with my thoughts on blogging.

I’m curious: what’s the issue?

I’ll happily link here to any post that explains.

Tony Kummer considers blog advertisement.

I say, ads don’t sell you out any more than getting a job does. We’re not hippies.

We teach Orison to always mention something that’s amazing about God during mealtime prayers. So, today:

You made my drum set.

Amen.

Justin Taylor has posted an article I wrote on how to blog better by considering your readers more important than yourself.

Thoughts?

I recommend watching Fry and Laurie’s discussion of the “flexibility of language” and whether English is “capable of sustaining demagoguery.”

True linguistics!

Gifted writers make each sentence propel readers to the next.

Another strategy is to just finish before readers have time to quit.

(My entry in the 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium)

The onus of defense isn’t on the proponents of new media; it’s on the antagonists who would limit how the gospel spreads.

1. I love you.
2. Let me get that for you.
3. I don’t know.
4. Thank you.
5. No problem.
6. I see.
7. Tell me more.
8. I agree.
9. Are you sure you want to do that?
10. See you soon.
11. Good job.
12. I’m sorry.
13. Hey, babe.
14. Good to see you.
15. Don’t jump.
16. I’ll take care of it.
17. Sure.
18. My fault.
19. Whatever you want.
20. I have an idea.
21. You’re right.
22. I wonder.

Here’s one of the last pictures of us all—from a vacation most memorable for Molly’s being almost too pregnant for vacation.

Tyler, my coworker in DG’s web department and our resident southerner, has begun a tradition at the office.

Tuesdays at noon: Grits.

Tony Kummer of Said at Southern posted an interview with me that we did before the Band of Bloggers meeting in Louisville.

(via Friendly Atheist)

Check the veracity of an email forward before you pass it on.

No. Wait. Stop.

Just delete it.

This isn’t the 90’s.

(A guest post from my brother Barnabas Piper)

God created us to think in a certain way, but that does not necessarily mean he thinks the same way we do.