While New York City has a reputation of being a secular bastion, one Evangelical Christian, Tony Carnes, and his team of inquisitive reporters are on a mission to change that…

  On Sunday as I drove to church, I caught part of a great episode of “On Being” hosted by Krista Trippet with Father Gregory Boyle. It was so good in fact,…

Outside my dad’s church.     As in an unappealing and outdated relic of the latter part of the twentieth century? Maybe. I know I never felt comfortable in them anyway. I…

    While I did see “DJango Unchained,” I totally missed Saturday Night Live’s spoof, so I found this post by David R. Henson pretty interesting:   No doubt, a lot of…

    I’m with Matthew Paul Turner on Rob Bell’s new book promo vid. What the hezzy?  

(Brain Pickings Weekly)   Starting in college, I began hearing how the Roman Catholic Church supposedly tormented Galileo, religion, of course being the squasher of science and human brillance. It was only…

    What constitutes religious art? It seems sacrilegious art is much easier to recognize on sight. Simcha Fisher writes:   Some of it [religious art] is stark, some gentle, some lovely,…

(Source)   This essay at the New York Times by Susan Jacoby, The Blessings of Atheism, got me thinking. Some excerpts:   IT is primarily in the face of suffering, whether the…

    On Facebook yesterday I wrote as a status: “I’m realizing more and more that some of the best followers of Christ have nothing to do with any churches. How God…

 (Source) After mass on Sunday, I spoke with my pastor, Father Ros, about the story of the Syrophoenician woman and also the blog post I had read that portrayed Jesus in a…