Yes, Christianity has it's share of worts (and not just hundreds of years ago), but I can't imagine even the most hardened of Puritan enforcers doing this. Maybe someone can explain this to me....

We've just watched this documentary on BBC, available for a little while on iPlayer (UK only). For UK Christians this is almost a must-watch, and at least a highly-recommended-watch. Deborah's 13, has been brought up in a rural area with 10 siblings and is a passionate evangelist, believing in hell ...

My last game of the season before heading south was in the far northeastern corner of Vermont at Canaan High School.  It was a season-ending game for both schools.  The Cabot Huskies were the visitors that evening.  I always have enjoyed working games in Canaan.  I have done ...

Please refresh for the latest updates and fire your emails to paul.doyle@guardian.co.uk. You can also follow AS Roma v Arsenal and keep tabs on all of tonight's scores 61 mins: Shoddy miss by berbatov after the keeper only parried a Rooney shot from distance. The Bulgarian hit the rebound straight a...

Thomas Joscelyn reports that a former Gitmo detainee, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, has become the Taliban's chief operations officer in southern Afghanistan, where violence has been spiking in the last year. In response to that spike, thousands of U.S. troops are preparing to deploy to southern Afghanist...

Why, he would Twitter during mass, just like the folks at Mars Hill Church, of course: ...They weren’t talking, but “Twittering,” typing in brief thoughts or messages for their friends to read in real time. "How does the service impact them, what does worship feel like to them and ...

Is Apple planning an e-book reader? (Probably not, but they will probably make ebooks much easier to read on their future devices, and they might begin selling books in the iTunes store.) Also, Symtio is an ebook content and commerce platform. There's a good interview with the vice president of the ...

Filed under: Video Games A Yale student is suing US Airways for $1 million in compensation for his lost Xbox 360 and the emotional toll of attempting to recover it. He claims he had an Xbox 360 with a "specialized hard drive" and other fancy components worth more than $1,000 (is that the kind with t...

Apple introduced the new iPod Shuffle today. It's about half the size of the old Shuffle and it now holds around a thousand songs, instead of the 240 songs of the old, square Shuffle. The controls have been taken off the device and are now on the ear bud cord. And there's a new system to help you or...

For my workbench project I needed to cut sheet goods on the length, and I wanted the cuts to be straight since I’m going to be looking at ‘em for awhile.  I found Swanson’s CG100 cutting guide at Lowe’s for $20 and figured it was worth a shot. When I got it home I found that...