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Bishop Howe speaks to convention - Sunday, January 27th 2008 8:11 AM
You can hear Bishop's Howe's Friday night homily and Saturday address to the 39th Convention of the Diocese of Central Florida online. A written copy of the convention address...
Book covers - Friday, January 25th 2008 9:59 AM
Sounds like columnist Ben Shapiro has an amusing book to share with us about the people who run for the office of President of the United States. Excerpt from an interview at...
Westminster Cathedral - Tuesday, January 22nd 2008 1:45 PM
The London Times reports: Westminster Cathedral, the UK's flagship Roman Catholic place of worship, could be forced to close within a decade if cash is not found for urgent...
Chesterton - Monday, January 21st 2008 7:51 PM
"The first Anglicans asked for peace and happiness, truth and justice; but nothing can stop the latest Anglicans, and many others, from the horrid habit of asking for...
Madness for moderns - Monday, January 21st 2008 1:06 PM
Some 1,700 years ago, a hermit living in the Egyptian desert predicted “a time is coming when people will go mad.” “And when they see someone who is not mad,” continued...
Cardinal O'Connor - Friday, January 18th 2008 12:45 PM
At the First Things blog, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus reminisces about the late John Cardinal O'Connor of New York, whose birthday was this week: One ordinarily does not repeat in...
Flop flop flop - Friday, January 18th 2008 10:23 AM
LONDON, January 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A court ruling last week concluded that British Airways (BA) did not engage in unlawful discrimination when it suspended an...
Nature of Islam - Wednesday, January 16th 2008 10:14 AM
In the New York Times, Ayaan Hirsi Ali reviews a new book on Islam by Lee Harris, The Suicide of Reason. Excerpts: Several authors have published books on radical Islam’s...
Write your own punch line - Wednesday, January 16th 2008 9:35 AM
Astrological Magazine is ceasing publication. Due to unforeseen circumstances. A note about the magazine's founder says: Dr. Raman spent his whole life in the study of...
Teen atheist - Monday, January 14th 2008 2:44 PM
Dawn Sherman is all of 14. Her lawsuit challenging the new Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act in Illinois has already resulted in a temporary injunction blocking the...
Free will - Friday, January 11th 2008 4:12 PM
From a recent issue of National Review, Stephen M. Barr writes about "The Soul and Its Enemies:" Free will is a stumbling block to the materialist, since it quite clearly...
Three principles - Sunday, January 6th 2008 8:09 PM
In his book Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby proposes three life principles: 1. God is love. His will is always best. 2. God is all-knowing. His directions are always right....
Evangelism is not... - Saturday, January 5th 2008 6:31 AM
The Christianity Today web page has posted a pithy excerpt from Mark Dever's book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism. Mark takes a moment to talk about what evangelism is NOT...
Thought for the day - Tuesday, December 25th 2007 9:36 PM
"People who can live peacefully in impossible situations will make great headway in the spiritual journey."   --Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative...
Black notes - Monday, December 24th 2007 8:55 AM
Wintley Phipps is a Seventh Day Adventist pastor in Palm Bay Florida. He's world renowned for his powerful singing voice. Here, on stage at Carnegie Hall, he tells a story about...
Where's Mary? - Wednesday, December 19th 2007 3:23 PM
At First Things, Michael Linton conducts detective work on Christmas carols: In looking at the texts of 381 English-language Christmas carols (here carol means a strophic...
St. Anonymous - Wednesday, December 19th 2007 2:51 AM
Another notable contribution by that well known writer, St. Anonymous: If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows,Strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls,But do not...
The First Noel - Friday, December 14th 2007 8:10 PM
As performed by Natalie Cole.
Rowan's Advent Letter - Friday, December 14th 2007 12:53 PM
Archbishop Rowan Williams has released his Advent Letter. It's worth a read here. He closes with a nice summary of the call for us in this season: The coming of...
UPDATE: The Dark Golden Compass - Friday, December 14th 2007 10:10 AM
In a bracingly frank review at First Things, Anthony Sacramone tells us what he REALLY thinks about the new movie The Golden Compass: Look, here’s the thing. The movie...
The imam's daughter - Tuesday, December 11th 2007 6:57 AM
In today's modern England: A British imam's daughter is living in fear of her life under police protection after she received death threats from her family for converting to...
What I know - Tuesday, November 27th 2007 8:59 AM
"I don't know what the Bible says, but I know what I believe." New Orleans Pastor Joe McKeever recalls a conversation that taught him something about having strong convictions....
Tithing - Friday, November 23rd 2007 11:53 AM
We gather at church voluntarily and the Gospel is shared freely with all. But what about the cost of sharing the Gospel week after week? The Wall Street Journal...
Servant prayer - Monday, November 19th 2007 7:38 PM
If you can use anything, Lord, you can use me... As sung by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
Botafumiero - Tuesday, November 13th 2007 3:26 PM
"There is no such thing as too much incense." If Dean Rick Lobs says it, it must be so! And he's got the video to prove it.