Good luck with that. Me: I’m highly skeptical that they’re gonna land any punches that overthrow the basic arguments for stuff like an old earth and some sort of evolutionary growth of life on earth over the past 3 billion years or so. But they are welcome to give it their best shot. I don’t have any religious faith invested in the theory of biological evolution, so I don’t think skeptics about it are heretics who need to be silenced... Read more

Tom offers perhaps the soundest diagnosis of What’s the Matter with Me that I’ve seen so far: Adding to the mystery that is Shea: There seem to be certain people whom he treats in a markedly friendly manner, and yet these people also treat him in a markedly friendly manner. But there are still other people Mark treats in a bristly manner — and just to compound the befuddlement, these people themselves treat Mark in a bristly manner! These phenomena... Read more

between brutality and courage lectures Prez on weakness. This is the guy who helped spend us into the ground declaring “Deficits don’t matter” as he lied “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” Turns out there was plenty of doubt from the UN weapons inspectors. But he wanted his war cuz he’s all about not looking weak. And he was all about torture and telling lies to cover it up. I got... Read more

the Onion writers are reading my stuff! Read more

In which I address the mysterious disconnect so many people seem to think exists between my theology and my social and political opinions, and enrage a bunch of people who said they would no longer read me last week, but are still doing so this week. Read more

I’ll be speaking there tonight at 7:00 PM. Topic: Mary, Mother of the Son. Be there! Aloha! Read more

He just got transferred from Holy Family parish over in West Seattle out to St. Mary of the Valley in Monroe, and now the parishioners in Monroe are discovering what a treasure God just dropped in their laps. One of them writes: No surprise but we are loving Father Philip! He is so wonderful. My wife’s niece had to be hospitalized for H1N1 flu and she was in critical condition at the Wenatchee hospital. We got to Mass early several... Read more

One Pope offered encouragement to Christians against the enemies of the Cross in Eastern Europe. The next Pope is offering encouragement to Christians against the enemies of the Cross in Western Europe. Read more

…from its Christian population! Fortunately, they’re just Chaldean Christians which means a) American Evangelicals don’t much care since they aren’t *real* Christians and b) secular Americans don’t care because hey! they’re just Christians. That’s why the persecution of the Iraqi Church is *so* dominating the headlines and has for so long. Mission accomplished! Read more

Dawkins and Co. are Bright. Way to go, dudes! Read more