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Missionary to Hollywood - Wednesday, August 6th 2008 2:59 PM
Barbara Nicolosi, missionary to Hollywood (and thus, the world): Christians need to grow up and understand that this is a very dark world which is locked in a high stakes...
Lambeth 2008 - Tuesday, August 5th 2008 7:22 AM
The Get Religion blog reviews how the press covered the Lambeth Conference and finds much to correct. There is much to read about the just concluded conference (including...
Liturgical changes - Wednesday, July 30th 2008 11:16 AM
Fr. Al keeps warning me that the Episcopal Church is working on a new version of the Book of Common Prayer (shudder). The Roman Catholics are also at work on a new English...
Cats, hats, and designers - Tuesday, July 29th 2008 9:35 AM
Frederica is always fun to read. While I’m not very informed about the Intelligent Design debate, the idea sounds inoffensive enough: Scientists cannot prove there is a...
Bishop behind bars - Tuesday, July 22nd 2008 10:19 AM
There is an amusing picture of our beloved Bishop at Lambeth along with one of the daily reports he has filed. Please note that although the Bishop is behind bars, they...
Leni at Lambeth - Sunday, July 20th 2008 5:30 PM
The theological struggle at Lambeth meets the 21st century with tools of 20th century propaganda. Here's a fascinating critique of one "documentary" being shown to the Lambeth...
Pauline Kael - Thursday, July 17th 2008 3:22 PM
Possibly you know the name Pauline Kael. A Canadian newspaper has a reflection on her work as a movie critic here. Toward the end of her career she was heard to say,...
Lambeth UPDATED - Monday, July 14th 2008 1:20 PM
At First Things, Jordan Hylden reviews the situation before Lambeth Conference: Unfortunately, there are several factors in play that will make the Lambeth bishops’ task very...
Central Florida Diocese at Lambeth - Wednesday, July 9th 2008 4:53 PM
Bishops invited to the Lambeth Conference have been asked to bring along video presentations of the Church life back home. You can see the video Bishop Howe will take along at...
Forgiving - Monday, July 7th 2008 3:49 PM
"A decade after the extermination of one in eight Rwandans, after the Hutus turned on the Tutsis and even some of their own, the two tribes had to learn to live together." But...
Sundays in America - Tuesday, July 1st 2008 9:06 AM
"There's a show on television called Wife Swap, in which two women switch homes and families for two weeks. It took me less time than that to figure out the fascination, which...
Prayers of the People - Thursday, June 26th 2008 9:10 PM
To be Catholic is to believe that the Church's prayers - far from being exercises in futility, with pain and war and horror grinding on implacably in spite of our prayers -...
Top Ten - Wednesday, June 25th 2008 10:37 AM
There is music news from: ...the ancient Cistercian monastery of the Holy Cross, Stift Heiligenkreuz, in Austria’s Vienna woods. The large stone abbey, a blend of Gothic and...
Prayer - Tuesday, June 17th 2008 1:54 PM
How Henri Nouwen taught the seminarians to pray.  
Is it the same? - Tuesday, June 10th 2008 9:00 AM
Jennifer Roback Morse considers the impact of same-sex "marriage." Marriage between men and women is a pre-political, naturally emerging social institution. Men and women come...
Fathers Day - Tuesday, June 10th 2008 8:24 AM
"You were born on third base and your parents put you there, and you think you hit a triple. It’s not true." For Father's Day, himself writes about how to be smarter than Ben...
Oh Canada. Oh oh oh - Monday, June 9th 2008 8:22 PM
A Canadian pastor has been fined $7000. Guess why. Here is what the pastor wrote.
Atheists on Mars! - Friday, June 6th 2008 7:45 PM
Here is an amusing series of letters coaching the New Atheists on the strengths and weaknesses of their position. The writer has explored the atheist message on sex,...
History - Tuesday, May 27th 2008 2:59 PM
An interesting animated map showing the history and territory covered by the major world religions for the past 5,000 years. Obviously there is plenty of room for evangelism,...
Say thanks - Monday, May 26th 2008 7:06 AM
Letters - Thursday, May 22nd 2008 5:24 PM
Bishop Howe and the Standing Committee of our diocese have written a letter to the Presiding Bishop. As context you may also want to see this recent letter from Bishop Howe....
Darwin's Christians - Wednesday, May 21st 2008 11:09 AM
So you missed seeing Ben Stein's recent documentary EXPELLED. You can make up for that, a little, by reading Philip Johnson's column at Touchstone Magazine: “Predicting is...
Narnia returns - Friday, May 16th 2008 7:23 AM
We all get our chance to return to Narnia today. Terry Mattingly interviews the creators and reflects on the themes.   Narnia fans have been posting their...
Public scandal - Tuesday, May 13th 2008 2:18 PM
"Some churches believe it’s loving to accept and embrace people without judgment as to their actions. Others believe that it’s loving to show people their errors."...
Time to choose? Or not? - Wednesday, May 7th 2008 12:13 PM
Unsolicited opinions and advice from outside observers is not always welcome, particularly if it seems to call for change. On the other hand, some outside observers...