The God of love and peace be with you today.

There continue to be at least a few Kindle deals pretty well every day.

(Yesterday on the blog: On Being a Heroic Man)

Consider Leveraging Your Education for the Sake of the Nations

Rachel Ware puts out the call for students to consider getting an education overseas for the sake of the nations. She offers six reasons to pursue a degree while helping a healthy church in a foreign country.

Ban Porn Now

This author makes a compelling argument. “Ubiquitous pornography does not simply lead to privatized vice, but also destabilizes human culture and civilization to such a degree that the state should seek to degrade and destroy it as a menace to society. Such a proposal will likely find opponents among libertarian republicans and centrist liberals for whom individual autonomy is the highest political good. But opposition to pornography should command overwhelming support from religious conservatives on the right and opponents of misogyny from the most progressive portions of the left.”

Tolkien’s Treebeard and the Root Problem of Hastiness

Nicholas Lewis draws some lessons from Tolkien’s world and applies them to our own.

Unpacking “New Year, New Me”

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