Rabbit Trails #26

In this week’s edition of Rabbit Trails, Doug McKelvey remains singularly focused on owls.

Rabbit Trails #25

In this week’s edition of Rabbit Trails, Hutchmoot: Homebound suddenly becomes fiercely competitive.

Rabbit Trails #24

Jonny Jimison is back with Rabbit Trails #24, wherein Sauron himself is brought low by an unstable internet connection.

The Unbridled Joy of Making It

If you’re like me right about now, you’re looking for just about anything to give you a glimpse of joy and beauty in a world that feels like it’s burning to the ground. And if you’re a maker of beauty, you might also be struggling with trying to draw anything remotely creative out of yourself during this season. Despite what the productivity gurus might suggest, it’s kind of hard to get things done with the underlying anxiety and fear so many of us are dealing with (much less working and parenting from home 24/7).

Rabbit Trails #23

Click through for this week’s edition of Jonny Jimison’s Rabbit Trails.

Rabbit Trails #22

Jonny Jimison is back with Rabbit Trails! Click through for this week’s edition.

Uncle Jimmy & the Sweatpants Psalms

The world is different now. We’re hunkering down. Thus far, for us Whipples, the price of that is small. I know it’s not small for everyone. The Psalms make a lot more sense these days. Our prayer is for doctors and scientists, now more than ever. In the meantime, the Spirit has been teaching me things I had forgotten.

Of Pangolins, Noomy-Shoomy-Oomy to Rememberoo, and the Rhetoric of Common Grace: Slugs & Bugs’ Modern Kid

“Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”—St. Mark 10:15

Joy Remains: An Interview with Randall Goodgame

“As long as we’re singing, we might as well be smiling, too.” As I interviewed Randall about the new Slugs & Bugs album last week, he spoke that sentence so matter-of-factly that I knew he believed it the way a person believes more with each morning that the sun will rise tomorrow, too. And I wrote it down immediately.

Introducing (Whatever You Do, Don’t) Ask Doug!

Dear Ask Doug,

My grandparents are always gushing about some dude on the radio® named “Paul Harvey,” as if I should know who that is. Well, I don’t, and I never have. And when I tell them so they just make little huffing noises through their noses and turn to stare derisively into the middle-distance®.

A Rabbit Trails Holiday Party

The much-beloved Jonny Jimison is back with his Rabbit Trails comic, just in time to celebrate Christmas.

Advent Meditation: Holy Laughter

[Editor’s note: Throughout Advent, we’ll be sharing one meditation at the beginning of each week, each taken from a delightful little collection called The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections for the Season of Advent, published by the Christian History Institute. If you find yourself enjoying what you’re reading, be sure to check it out—there will be a link at the bottom of each post where you can learn more. Today’s meditation is from Jennifer Trafton, about the holiness and freedom of laughter in the presence of God.]