Rachel Held Evan’s blog has become a nice place to have conversations about some of the issues pressing 20 somethings who grew up in American evangelical churches. Today’s post “Better Conversations between churched and un-churched Christians” is another good posting in that long conversation.

John Suk with a nice, basic primer about pastors and counseling.

Another treatment of Douthat’s new book.

Is asteroid mining in our future?