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August 2013

August 21, 2013
Today the Catholic church remembers one the great pope of the early 20th Century Pius...
August 03, 2013
This week Rachel Held Evans wrote a response to her somewhat controversial article on why...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
I'm not typically one to put much stock in "proofs" for God, but I had...
July 27, 2013
Having spent 8 years as a youth minister I often spoke with students who were...
July 05, 2013
I remember when I was first getting into ministry a mentor of mine told me...
July 02, 2013
When I was a kid, I was taught a lot of things by rote:The AlphabetThe...

June 2013

June 26, 2013
Prayer is both one of the most basic as well as one of the most...

May 2013

May 08, 2013
If you hadn't heard Dallas Willard has died. He has been an influential voice in...
May 05, 2013
Did you know that the cathedral of Otranto in southern Italy is decorated with the...
May 05, 2013
Today is Easter in many of the Eastern Churches. i thought this compilation of Eastern Resurrection hymns was just...
May 05, 2013
The first time I went to a Catholic church I felt pretty confused. People were...
May 04, 2013
I recently got into a discussion over infant baptism with a few of my friends...
May 03, 2013
I'm not sure you saw this video where it seems a women on argues that...
May 03, 2013
PBS just made a video of iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe. I was struck by something he...
May 03, 2013
I ran into this video today. It reminded me of a prayer in the Theophany...

April 2013

April 24, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about liturgical theology,...
April 20, 2013
The question "are sacraments magic?" is one that comes up surprisingly often in my life....
April 16, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about incarnational theology,...
April 10, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about incarnational theology,...
April 01, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about who Jesus is and...

March 2013

March 28, 2013
Does anyone else feel like this Pope is redefining what you thought was possible for...
March 28, 2013
Today the pope will wash the feet of incarcerated young people as he chooses to celebrate Holy...
March 26, 2013
An Atheist writes:Be honest, do some christian denominations look down on others? Do people look down on...
March 26, 2013
My friend, and fellow podcaster, Thad recently posted this video on the history of the...
March 23, 2013
In the aftermath of The Steubenville rape, Ann Voskamp wrote a great article on manhood....
March 17, 2013
I was thrilled to read this article at the New York Times, mostly because my inner...
March 16, 2013
This post is something of a cry for help that I have felt for a...
March 16, 2013
I was blown away by this explanation of why Pope Francis chose his name.Speaking to...
March 16, 2013
I was recently featured in this video along with president of the Catholic University of America, John...
March 15, 2013
Have you seen the Personal Promise Bible? It's a Bible that you can special order...
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