I’m just now reading all the borderline-vicious reaction (see here, here, and here) that the NY Times piece on Mara Vanderslice’s faith-based outreach has generated.  I wish I could have responded sooner, but I’ve been on vacation and away from the Internet for the past week.    Most of the criticism — in the liberal blogs, at least — seems to come in one of four forms: (1) Mara hates the separation of church and state, (2) there is no actual contingent... Read more

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The NY Times magazine's cover story this week is on the impact Latino parishioners are having (and are likely to have) on American Catholicism. (more…) Read more

Here’s the update on Tim’s condition; the long-term prognosis is still unclear.  Keep praying.  He played a formative role in my life when I worked on his re-election campaign in 2002.  For five months the guy was all I thought about — and I relate almost everything I do in the political world back to my experiences on that campaign.  I know the “bigger deal” is control of the Senate, but to me, this is personal.    Washington, DC—The office... Read more

Blogs and chat rooms have become the screen through which ideas, both good and bad, are sifted. Both the brilliance and the idiocy of participants is riveting. (more…) Read more

According to a new CNN poll about half of black respondents said they had been a victim of discrimination because of their race. A little more than a quarter of whites said they had been victims of racial discrimination. (more…) Read more

A bill that would allow tithing to those who have declared bankruptcy will go to the White House for the President's signature or veto. (more…) Read more

In a recent interview with Miroslav Volf I asked the theologian, "If you could talk to Bush and recommend a course of action in Iraq that would begin to solve the Iraq dilemma, what would you recommend?" (more…) Read more

Tackling AIDS/HIV cannot merely be placed on an emphasis of abstinence only education. (more…) Read more

Now you too can fight your own physical and spiritual warfare on your very own game console. (more…) Read more