Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

Roberto Rivera on Japan’s declining population.

And what do we lose when we don’t have children? Well, here’s a great story from Kathryn about a wild rabbit hunt going on in her backyard. I’ll bet those kinds of hunts are dying out in Japan.

Continuing in the same vein, George Grant writes about the Feast of the Holy Innocents (yesterday) in which Christians commemorate the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem and Judea by Herod the Great and also remember the many children who have died as a result of men’s greed and cruelty.

There seems to be a continuing theme here: to add to the chorus, here’s Dignan’s 75 Year Plan on Abortion, Adoption, and Compassion. He’s right that adoption in certain Christian evangelical circles seems to be a trend, a good trend. I would estimate that more than half of the families in my church have adopted children.

One of the better commentaries on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie that I’ve read is Will Duquette’s review at The View from the Foothills. I agree that it was a good movie with a few “Hollywoodisms” thrown in. What else could one expect?

If you’re up for reading more, more, more about C.S. Lewis and his writing, David Mills has lots of links at Mere Comments.

Sallie’s Carnival of Beauty. Christian women bloggers pick their favorite posts from the year to share. Enjoy.

Homeschool Blog Award Winners. Some of my favorites are there (congratulations MMV), and maybe I’ll find some new favorites. Check it out.

DawnTreader picks out six important stories/influences to sum up 2005.: Terry Schiavo, US Supreme Court, biological design, C.S. Lewis, Katrina, and the Emergent church.

Tulip Girl suggests, instead of resolutions, a Mondo Beyondo List for the new year, “the list of all the wild and crazy dreams we have, the things that are so out there it is almost scary to write them down . . . the ideas that tug at your heart and are almost out of reach even of day dreams.. I don’t know if I’m brave enough to post a such a list on the internet. I want to see Tulip Girl’s list first–or yours.