The previous blog post, “A Direct Private Line,” is meant to be lightly written, and basic, but the points it makes are ones for which we can all be seriously thankful. I hope it gives you food for thought as you do “phone home.”

Speaking of phones, the TacticalChristianity.org webpages are optimized for viewing on phone size screens as well as on the computer, so  you can use your smart phone to check for new content or to catch up without feeling you are trying to navigate all over a large page with a small device.  If you are not using the site’s RSS feed to check for new content, setting your smart phone’s browser bookmark at the Blog page is probably the quickest way to see what’s new – and you can jump from here, of course, to  articles or other pages as you wish.   If you are like me, you may prefer to do most of your reading on a larger screen, but it’s good to know you can use your phone to  check out the latest blog posting while on your lunch break or to catch an article on the train commute!

One of the upgrades we gave the site this week is a new page: “Books in Brief.”  The books featured on this page will range from older classics, which deserve to be brought to the attention of those new in the walk, to more recent and new books you might have missed.   Every detail of the  theology and approach of some of these books may not be ours or yours, but all have something – and often a great deal – to offer.  There are so many thousands of books out there; we hope the new page will help you narrow down the list to ones that are particularly worthwhile. New (and old) books will be added periodically.

Speaking of books – check out this week’s short new article on the Tactical Christian Living page: “Give Yourself a Lift – Try a New Translation.”