As you enjoy a holiday weekend, consider how nice it would be to have a three-day weekend every week. It may sound like a dream but it’s become reality for state government employees in Utah. The state has saved $1.8 million and 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the past year [...]

I ran across an article from RNS reporting in the first ten years it was available, only 1% of couples getting married chose a government-defined “covenant” marriage over a “regular” marriage.
Apparently in Louisiana (and also Arizona and Arkansas), couples can choose between two types of marriage licenses.
The first, favored by the 99%, is what most [...]

A recent Washington post article talks about the prevalence of faith-based weight loss plans. I had no idea this was going on, and I have to say, I’m torn about the whole thing.  I was more skeptical when I read the headline than I was after I read this justification from Pastor Steve Reynolds:
“About [...]

I’ve been looking for a meaningful but concise overview of a biblical perspective on health care reform, and this petition from Sojourners is the best I’ve found. I signed it and encourage other Christians to do so. And I encourage all readers to comment about whether this statement articulates your Christian convictions as they relate [...]

A blog post this morning from Phil Cooke, got me thinking a little more about something that happened over the weekend. You may have heard about the Continental Express flight where passengers were stuck in a plane overnight for nine hours.  Much of that time was sitting on the tarmac 50 yards away from a [...]

Catholic archbishop Vincent Nichols said in a recent interview with the Telegraph that he is concerned about the impact websites like Facebook and Myspace are having on teenagers.  Though I am generally suspicious of generalizations made about “kids these days,” and suspect the problems he points to can be tracked to other causes, one point [...]

TC-er Lisa wrote us with this idea for a Quick Thought topic.  She thinks it’s good food for thought and we agree.
“Why do we say ‘God bless America’ and not ‘God bless all the nations of the world?’  I know God didn’t only create the United States.  Maybe other countries could use God’s blessings, too.’”
What [...]

Earlier this month, when visitors came to the largest video game conference in the U.S., they were greeted by protesters.  The group of people were Christians who were upset at the release of a new video game called Dante’s Inferno.  At least that’s what the video game developer, Electronic Arts, wanted you to think.
As Phil [...]

Joel Rubinson says that, in this down economy, businesses should focus on being a friend to people. People feel the recession is a crisis much like a natural disaster or epidemic. Uncertainty and anxiety reign.
Smart businesses, therefore, will position themselves as friends and neighbors who are there to help. He cites Hyundai’s offer to take [...]

For my article on the resurgence of traditional church architecture in the May issue of Christianity Today, I interviewed Eric Jacobsen, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington, and author of Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith (Brazos Press, 2003). He agreed to have our entire e-mail exchange shared [...]