Francis Cardinal George reverses the commonplace saying in a column entitled “I’m Religious, but Not Spiritual”: It’s somewhat fashionable these days to describe oneself as “spiritual but not religious.” This is supposed to mean that one is open to an experience beyond the commercial or
James Holmes, who dressed up like the Joker and killed 12 people at the Batman movie (and who faces the death penalty if he is convicted), has converted to Islam. Robert Spencer explores what that means as opposed to a conversion to Christianity: The debate
One of the many unfortunate legacies of Romanticism (there were some fortunate ones as well) is the mystification of the artist, as if, say, a literary genius were some ethereal sensitive soul far above the crass material realm of everyday life. Whereas in reality, actual
After Jesus rose from the dead, He spent 40 days on earth. Then He ascended, and ten days later He sent the Holy Spirit. So Easter is a whole season, lasting 49 days until Pentecost (which means “fiftieth day”). So it’s still Easter, and I
Michael Gerson discusses the 20% of Americans who describe their religion as “none.” It isn’t that the “Nones” (not to be confused with “nuns”) don’t believe in God, necessarily. 64% of them do. They just don’t want to affiliate with any “organized religion.” The statistics
In yet another day marking the renewal that is Spring, today is the new baseball season’s Opening Day. (That it falls on April Fools’ Day is just a coincidence.) In observance of this significant holiday for us baseball fans, I will link to this column
Happy April Fools’ Day! This is the day that the internet and other media are full of pranks, hoaxes, and tall tales. So if you come across any, please report them here. Thus we can honor the day.
Have a blessed Good Friday, everybody, and a joyous Easter. Towards that end, I give you two remarkable texts from God’s Word, which detail how Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, is OUR death, burial, and resurrection, and how each of us was and is intimately
For Lent I’ve been reading Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God. It’s sophisticated theology, interacting and often agreeing with radical and liberal theologians, and yet there are treasures on virtually every page. Here are some quotations: “When God becomes man in Jesus of Nazareth, he not
(This is a re-run from this blog in 2011, but it still needs to be said. For more on this topic go here and here. ) The charge is that the word “Easter” derives from the name of a pagan fertility goddess “Eostre.” It is
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