To a certain extent, we are all caught up in a quest to be cool. There are some thoughts here about how that fits into the Christian life. It centers around our desire to hoard love for ourselves.

There's a very interesting article here about how the Amish community in Pennsylvania demonstrated forgiveness after a gunman shot 10 girls in a school house, killing five of the them.

There's an excellent article here about what porn has done to male/female relationships. Modesty is looking more and more attractive.

This essay by Ravi Zacharias on the Virginia Tech killings is supposed to be very good. I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but I thought I'd pass it on anyway.

Apparently there's a big brouhaha going on the the Southern Baptist denomination about the use of alcohol in evangelism. What do you think? Is it wrong to have a beer with your Bible open?