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If you have Explorer, you probably signed on a few hours ago and were greeted by this headline on MSN.com: “The Seven Deadly Sins of Life.” And for a split second maybe you wondered: Is this a religious message? Are they talking about my life? But then …

Apparently we Boundless bloggers have Japan on the mind. Yesterday, Suzanne told us about Japanese divorce ceremonies. Today, I bring to your attention to a new trend in that country, a trend that seems, at least to us Westerners, equally bizarre. I’m …

The various effects technology has on us and our understanding of what it means to be human — now there’s a topic I find endlessly fascinating. Which was why I was delighted that my sister, Jenni, and her husband, Liam, both independent of one another …

“E-mail tends to rudify all communication,” says the character Rat in Sunday’s Pearls Before Swine strip. “Makes nice people sound rude. Makes rude people sound ruder.” Sure does. And sometimes, I might add, it not only makes us sound ruder, but become …

  …I thought I should say something, since an event this important shouldn’t pass unremarked. Frankly, though, it was giving me a headache. Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling pretending to discover that somewhere in the Constitution — unsuspected by …

Mashable.com decided to make yesterday, June 30, Social Media Day. Don’t think you promote social media? Think again. Take a second to stop and think about your day so far. How many times have you checked your Facebook, updated your Twitter status, wro …

What are the primary and subsidiary roles of government? And in this age of moral relativism, is it wise to make political arguments from a biblical perspective on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage? The Gospel Coalition blogger Justin Taylor t …

It’s a tale of a pastor who’s said to be indulging in homosexuality even as he denounces it. And it’s said to be a tale of outrageous hypocrisy. And actually, it is a tale of outrageous hypocrisy. But not chiefly — if at all — on the part of the past …