Here’s some pics from last night’s All Saints Party at St George, Houston. Basil, having seriously studied the iconography in the altar, as St Basil the Great. We just figured out Blue’s Clues! We just figured out Blue’s Clues! (Christina Salem as, you know who.) The Huneycutts: [Mary] Catherine the Great, the Priest of Halloween Past, the Seamstress, Basil, and Peter (Helen) Pan. St Catherine runs into a butterfly, her Dad, and the world’s biggest Steeler fan (aka Fr John... Read more

I wondered what was going on at Houston’s Jewish Community Center last night. On our return from St George’s All Saints Party, I noticed their parking lot was packed! Halloween? All Saints Party? Of course not! This morning I saw the reader board: David Klinghoffer … just a couple miles from my house. I’d have loved to have spoken with him about T H I S. Read more

She relates to Tom Cruise, who has taken endless flak for being a Scientologist. “If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don’t care if he prays to turtles,” Madonna says. “And I don’t think anybody else should.” “I’m not thinking of quitting,” she says with a big laugh. “I ain’t going nowhere.” Not so the Protestants. The bottom is dropping out. After decades of Protestant stability, pollsters chart a dramatic nose dive since 1993 among people who identify themselves as... Read more

H E R E ‘s the thousand words. Read more

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to fantasy, games, dress-up, and such. And if you promise not to tell anyone: I’ve read most everything Stephen King has written. Harry Potter? Used to be opposed, now I’ve read ’em all. I’m just not interested in celebrating this feast. I did as a kid. It was a parent thing. (Hi Mom!) That and, well, a candy thing. When I got older I was confused. One year, honest to goodness, we had... Read more

A worthy read from the dormant blogger; pardon the title, please. Read more

“DeLay is motivated more than anything by power,” says Jan Reid, coauthor with Lou Dubose of The Hammer, a just-published biography of DeLay. “But he also believes in the power of the coming Millennium [of Jesus Christ], and it helps shape his vision on government and the world.” This may explain why DeLay’s Capitol office furnishings include a marble replica of the Ten Commandments and a wall poster that reads: “This Could Be The Day” — meaning Judgment Day. DeLay... Read more

In the beginning was the Bible, and the Bible was with God, and the Bible was God. It was in the beginning with God; all things were made through it, and without it was not anything made that was made. In it was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was King James. He came for... Read more

This Saturday, October 29th, His Grace BISHOP TIKHON [Mollard], will be officially installed as the ruling Bishop Philadelphia and the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania of the Orthodox Church in America at Saint Stephen Cathedral in Philadelphia, PA. Bishop Tikhon was elected to the position by clergy and lay delegates at a special assembly of the diocese held in May 2005. He will oversee nearly 50 parishes located in the eastern half of the state. His Beatitude, METROPOLITAN HERMAN, Primate of... Read more

She can cite scholarly authority for giving her Christ a birth date of 11 B.C., and for making James, his disciple, the son of Joseph by a previous marriage. But she’s also taken liberties where they don’t explicitly conflict with Scripture. No one reports that the young Jesus studied with the historian Philo of Alexandria, as the novel has it—or that Jesus’ family was in Alexandria at all. And she’s used legends of the boy Messiah’s miracles from the noncanonical... Read more