Dominoes. And nobody knows how it will all end up. All we can do is pray. Read more

In which we discuss a difficult question and I do my best to answer, assisted by my wise wife. Read more

Here’s where I am this week: January 31 7:00 PM St. Joseph Parish, Issaquah, WA. Topic: This is My Body. February 2 7:00 PM Our Lady Star of the Sea, Bremerton, WA. Topic: This is My Body. February 4 7:00 PM Holy Family parish, Kirkland, WA. Topic: Behold Your Mother. February 5 Search for Meaning: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival, Seattle University. Contact: Kelly Hickman. Phone: (206) 296-5330 / (800) 578-3118 Hope to see you! Read more

right all the time. Toldja so. Update: Ha! In a fitting punishment for hubris, it turns out I’m wrong. Or, at any rate, that I’m right about something different than what the conservative PAC is worried about. They’re mad at Brown for voting for a nuke reduction treaty with Russia (cuz we need to maintain the ability to destroy the world six times and not merely four). So the issue is not abortion (cuz the Thing that Used to Be... Read more

Who could wonder why Kermit Gosnell was confused at his arraignment? No one had stopped him before. No one in more than 30 years had questioned him. No one had ever given him a signal that he might be prosecuted for performing abortions by inducing overmedicated third-trimester labor and then chopping through the spinal cord of the living result. No one had ever dared call his abortion business murder. The attempt by abortion zealots such as P.Z. Myers to distance... Read more

…doesn’t mean you are. Likewise, just because you disagree with the Church on some point doesn’t mean you are a prophet sent by God to correct the Church. It could just be that you are a loudmouth with a Bible. That goes, not only for Fundamentalists who are sure they’ve disproven the priesthood by citing “call no man Father”, but even for Catholics who think they are the first person to notice that Jesus never said anything about abortion, gay... Read more

This post has extremely high levels of nerd toxicity. That’s because it contains a link to Gene Roddenberry’s pitch letter for Star Trek. The letter even contains a “baffle ’em with BS” appeal to the Drake Equation, just to make the execs’ eyes glaze over before Roddenberry returns to saying. “so anyway, there’s lots of opportunities for jiggle and fisticuffs” and then proceeds to lay out some future story ideas. Fun stuff, especially when you see how an original concept... Read more

…is proving very handy to brain researchers working on the mind/body problem. The old boy has staying power. Who knew that somebody 900 years stupider than Richard Dawkins could be so smart? Read more

Next target: Chick-Fil-A. Their crime: being run by Evangelicals who believe what Christianity has always taught about the nature of marriage. They’ve done nothing to gay. They merely believe differently and must therefore be punished for Ungoodthink Tolerance is not Enough. You. MUST. Approve or the Brownshirts will crush you. Gay marriage is a persecuting faith that aims to use the law to silence all opposition. Read more

…continue the discussion about Making Disciples. Join in! Read more