Fighting gay marriage like it’s killing civilization seems inconsistent amid cultural curses like adultery, groundless divorce, and pornography—all hetero and legal.

iPowerWeb, if you receive enough complaints about your website that the top feature for logged-in customers assumes they’re frustrated, why not redesign?

Accountability isn’t just weekly meetings with a “partner.”

It also means having friends who’ll punch your face when you need them to.

You simply can’t pay committed employees commensurately.

So treat them like they’re doing you a favor, not like they owe you something.

Definitions change. No problem.

Meaning is about ideas; it’s not about any specific, pronounceable lists of English letters.

Our lexicon isn’t sacred.

If something is unbiased, shouldn’t both parties in the controversy think so?

If they don’t, claiming evenhandedness, will just show your partiality.

Seen these bumper stickers?

Recently, Pastor Sam sagaciously noted that if you are outraged, you’re not paying attention.

Something to think about.

I don’t see much constructive value in the word “heresy” anymore.

Pejoration has overtaken its older, more technical definition:

What say ye?

I’ve decided to never post corrective comments about my own stupid typos.

But people will think I’m an idiot!

Yep, that’s humility.

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

-Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

(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.

It’s our responsibility as biblically-minded learners to hear biblical truth wherever it is, even if it’s being taught without being specifically referenced.

Regularly, when I tell Molly, “I love you,” there’s a “too” tacked on the end.

I should say it first more often.

Let’s aim for goodness. If we succeed consistently, great.

But why value consistency itself? We could just as easily be consistently bad.

When Christians at conferences overwhelm a bar/restaurant it’s an opportunity to blow minds with Christ-centered generosity.

Tip high and buy drinks.

I don’t want to become that writer who expects people to be familiar with his work before he’ll interact about his ideas.

[I object] to the way people treat English grammar as if it were a frozen collection of eternal truths like Pythagorean geometry.

-Geoffrey Pullum, Far from the Madding Gerund, 45

If I feel the need to point out to someone that I’m being respectful to them, it’s pretty good evidence I’m not.

My inability to imagine that something unlikely is real is not reason enough for me to believe that it’s actually not real.

If I insist on understanding something before I’ll let myself think it’s good, then almost everything will be ruled out, including God.

If you criticize and mock something you admit you don’t understand, aren’t you just blaming others for your own ignorance and perplexity?

Should our objective when we’re arguing be to convince others of our position or to discover what’s true, regardless of who “wins”?

Consider when editing yourself:

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. (Proverbs 17:2