Random

• International food crisis easing ~ link

• Quotable: I too easily ape my culture's tendency to go to the soft places in Christian discipleship instead of the hard ones. I expect the path to be full of good, legible road signs that make following God easy, if not straightforward. I don't like detours or asking for directions in the spiritual life. ~ Andy Larsen commenting on Isaiah 50:10-11 in the Covenant Home Altar reading for today. Way too close to home.

• Andy has some incredible pictures of his assault on Mt Rainer a couple of weeks ago. ~ link

• Nick Acosta -- 11-year-old uke prodigy -- with an unusual history ~ link

• The Methodist church ministers in Fiji have been told that they have to quit smoking and drinking yaqona. ~ link

• Girls gone mild ~ link (SFW)