If you are looking for a sound exegesis of the principles that should govern a Biblical journey to marriage, or if you are seeking a delineation of some details to guide you or your children along the path, then read Doug Wilson’s book, Her Hand in Marriage. You’ll be glad you did.

I met her at a stoplight. She wasn’t bad looking at all, and when she turned my way, I flashed a smile. Then the light was green and she left me in her dust.

If someone had told me four years ago that I’d be writing an essay supporting courtship, I would have laughed. Heck, if someone told me four months ago I still would have sincerely doubted it.

Readers express their beefs with Tim’s “Understanding Music” piece.

In the end, done God’s way, our “yes” and “no” will begin to serve their intended purpose: to state, in honesty, how we feel about what we have been asked to do.

Rarely is genius, beauty, and greatness recognized in its own time - it’s usually stoned, actually. But in pop music, you get instant classics. Radiohead’s 1997 release, OK Computer, is one such example.

Imagine Braveheart without Horner’s bagpipe-driven score. Contemplate Chariots of Fire without Vangelis’ rhythmic theme. Going through the exercise of imagining movies without music teaches us a worthwhile lesson, for it is all too easy to forget the music playing in the background.

The sky darkened further, but he did not look up. He heard rustling noises around him, but he did not look up. A moment later, the cows were upon him.

A reader points out some difficulties with Josh’s “Satire and Sarcasm” essay. Josh responds.

Then one of the other cons yells out: ‘Ain’t you Saul? What, they finally charge you with murder?’ That was when I remembered him. He was a bad dude, man. The kind of guy you just didn’t cross.