Soldiering.

Good news: The U.S. is giving money to aid in the education of Lebanese college students. They're also giving 100 times that much to the Egyptian military.

"I'm Christian Unless You're Gay"

This blog post from Single Dad Laughing is remarkable, and I hope to write a longer post about it eventually. For now, let me simply say that the notion that we can trace all of our troubles/conflicts back to our "desire to be better than" has been sitting with me for weeks; I just can't shake it. It strikes me as immensely profound.