Faraway, So Close

Yes, that Donald Miller.
You can follow him here as he bikes across America.

David Plotz at slate.com has been blogging his reading of the Bible, which you can read here.
For example:
2:18-24: Before God creates Eve, He brings all the animals to Adam, so that Adam can give all of them their names. This episode captures something fundamental about the male brain: our obsessive categorizing behavior. I once spent [...]

It’s your last day to get a free (as in legal) copy of John Hodgman’s audio book ‘The Areas of my Expertise’ from the iTunes Music Store. Click here to go grab it.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, [...]