Religion in a Plain Brown Envelope

As I surf through the Internet in search of blog-worthy religion news, I stumble over all sorts of curious sources. Caffeinated Thoughts is an online magazine that describes itself as offering “a Christian and conservative view.” The editors explain that “caffeinated thoughts” means the kind of thoughts one might have while leisurely sipping a cup of coffee. That would not appeal to “Christian conservatives” who regard coffee-drinking as sinful (there are not a few of those). It certainly appeals to me, as it evokes the atmosphere of that great and barely surviving institution—the Central European coffee house. (I doubt if today’s “Christian conservatives” in America understand that the patrons of the traditional coffee house would look on a coffee house in which one cannot smoke as resembling a swimming pool in which one cannot swim).