Birthday gift cards to Borders make me very happy. I picked up two books I’ve really been wanting today: Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God, and Alister McGrath’s Christianity’s Dangerous Idea. I can’t wait to get to them, but they’re several books down the list (which means, yes, Chris, you can borrow them if you’d like…)

St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow. Last year, I had a pretty good drinking night. This year, the budget’s a bit tighter, so it’ll be a bottled Killian’s Irish Red at home. Something would feel not quite right about having a big drinking night during Holy Week anyway, I think.

And speaking of Holy Week, I’ll be posting a few Michael Card performances as a way of observing Holy Week. There are few Christian musicians I can tolerate these days, but Michael Card is tremendous, especially when it comes to songs that are thematically linked to the major events of the Christian calendar.

Finally, stay tuned at The Hog’s Head (and check out the new blog if you haven’t yet!). I’ll be doing a Book Giveaway there – Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, which I’ll be reviewing here and at that blog.