You put up with the Catholics and with the Mainline Protestants, but now, helllooooooo Evangelicals: It’s the week you’ve been waiting for over at Patheos, where Tim Dalrymple and others have compiled one huge forum on the Future of Evangelicalism! It’s what Katie Couric would call gi-normous!. You’ve got a month’s worth of reading there, or more! Dig in, have fun! Don’t forget to find your way back here! Read more
UPDATE: I have written an expanded version of these rosary meditations for OSV; you can order pamphlets of it for your church or group, here Reading about these especially horrific numbers and the endless squeezing of the Middle Class, and watching my son–still trying to find a real, full-time job now that the temporary one has ended–brought prayer. Prayer has power. When everything is falling apart, prayer holds. Any one of us can suddenly find ourselves out of work, and... Read more
And of course, real nuns: Read more
One of my jollier duties of a day is to get to select what videos get racked up into the You Tube widget over at Patheos. I just put about 50 up, and if you go here and scroll down, and look to the right hand side you can see them. I’m interested in your feedback on these, and also your suggestions. I don’t want the videos to reflect only my tastes; that would be very narrow and a bit... Read more
It’s Sunday Night. Relax. Yes, it’s a half-hour of video, but it is a half hour that will make you laugh out loud, and leave you feeling refreshed. And the Sabbath should leave us refreshed. James Martin, SJ from The Leadership Roundtable on Vimeo. H/T and Via Read more
Anne Rice, whose book Called Out of Darkness was a beautifully-written spiritual confession, has decided that she loves Christ but not Christians. She’s neither the first nor the last to feel that way. Sometimes I do, too. Sometimes I hate myself as a Christian, because I do the thing so badly. Christianity is easy to do badly. You take the dogma and leave out the love — you’re doing it wrong. You try to “correct” others and bring too much... Read more
Lost in Transit — from Friday, July 30, 2010, 5:13 AM — REPOSTED Anne Rice, whose book Called Out of Darkness was a beautifully-written spiritual confession, has decided that she loves Christ but not Christians. She’s neither the first nor the last to feel that way. Sometimes I do, too. Sometimes I hate myself as a Christian, because I do the thing so badly. Christianity is easy to do badly. You take the dogma and leave out the love –... Read more
Details here. “Lord, the one you love is sick…” Read more
The other day I wrote of the firing of U of I’s Ken Howell, who had taught “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought“ and other courses on Catholic doctrine, understanding and reason: The Howell story, however, goes beyond grim: it tells us that a simple charge of thinking incorrect thoughts and encouraging others to also dare to think, even if one comes to a different conclusion (“All I ask as your teacher is that you approach these questions as... Read more
In discussing the Future of Catholicism at Patheos, one essay in particular, Barbara Nicolosi’s vent-acular rant on the influence of the Baby Boomers on art and culture, stood out; Save the Boomers, Save the World was the most-read piece of the week. In truth, “Save the Boomers” is a highly-edited version of a much longer piece, which Nicolosi had entitled, “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and that piece may now be read in its entirety. Read more
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