“Miscellany” Archives

In this era of e-commerce giants and streaming platforms, don’t underestimate the pleasures of flipping through a printed catalog.

In which I discuss my favorite typeface, courtesy of Juan Pablo del Peral and Huerta Tipográfica.

Seidman makes it look all too easy.

Does anyone else’s brain work like this?

Max Maven looked and acted every bit the warlock, which made his acts of magic and mentalism all the more entertaining.

Were my boys ever to ask me if they could sign up, I must admit that I’d probably do my best to dissuade them.

There’s simply too much negativity, controversy, and damage surrounding the sport for it to remain as it currently is.

Indeed, there are so many year-end lists that sometimes, it can be rather daunting to figure out which lists to look at, or where to even begin looking.

I’d highly recommend that you wait until you have some time alone before reading this. Unless, that is, you don’t mind others seeing you get teary-eyed in public.

If we truly love one another — if we truly seek to be His disciples — then we ought to be gladly willing to do the hard work of building community.

I never want my children to feel repressed when it comes to their bodies, nor do I want them to view their bodies from a more libertine perspective.

Olson’s article ought to give us pause to reflect on how we often think about such a resurrection, and the immortality promised us in Christ.

Would “nature rights” even be an issue were Christians laboring to protect nature and help it to flourish?

We fear that we’ve become monotonous, boring, and irrelevant, and so we respond to that fear with irony in an attempt to imply that we don’t care, that we’re not bothered, that we’re not tired.

There are some people for whom the enjoyment of Black Friday is essentially hardwired into their physiology.

Beyond the obvious journalistic ethics at play in this tragedy, an event like this naturally causes us to wonder what we’d have done, had we been there.

Knowledge is a powerful thing, especially when it involves helpless human beings who are utterly at our mercy.

Perhaps the most important is creating a safe environment in which the bad guys in their little minds are easily vanquished.

According to some, extraverts have taken over our churches and our culture, marginalizing introverts in the process. But what if there is no grand conspiracy against introverts?

Markobi’s routine feels like it could fall apart at any moment — which is precisely what makes it so enjoyable.