Going to Levi's House

Viewpoint

How many of the people you know want to spend time with prisoners and ex-cons? When I tell people what I do, they are often less than enthusiastic.

The Witness of the Holy Spirit

All Things Examined

God: “He is there,” wrote the late Francis Schaeffer, “and He is not silent.”

Saving Prisoners, and Ourselves

The Mandate Is Clear (Priorities)

President Obama’s controversial new budget includes $237 million to purchase and prepare the little-used Thomson Correctional Center to house terrorists currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Daily roundup

• "Leprechauns"
• "'Come and walk among us'"
• "Your Backyard Mission"
• "Courts Struggle with Same-Sex Divorce"
• "Uncool People Need Jesus Too" (via The Line)
• "National 40 Days for Life Pro-Life Effort Up to 298 Babies Saved from Abortion"
• "How to save a friend from the brink"
• "Great Sex! Flat Abs! And Jesus!"

War of the worlds

William Saletan of Slate observes that we're in a "war between the worlds": the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. The frightening thing is that some of the casualties in this war are not virtual casualties. They're real ones.

Forgive and forget . . . or just forget?

From Andrew Rice’s book The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget:

The compromise [Uganda] had accepted, which the president [Yoweri Museveni] presented as reconciliation, was actually something more complex and less sturdy. It was as if, having found themselves unable to forgive, his people had concentrated on forgetting, and when they’d failed at forgetting, they’d chosen to believe what they wanted to believe. So long as nothing disturbed their conception of the past or exposed them to scrutiny, the nation could continue its halting procession along Museveni’s chosen path. To the president’s way of thinking, therefore, justice was a threat to progress, not because it promised verdicts and punishments, but because it forced people to remember.