Re the Homosexual Person, Gay Marriage, etc… Jesus Might Bake the Cake, but Would He Perform the Nuptials? The New Homophiles: Stories Without a Who or What? The Culture Wars: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt! Gay Marriage: Whose Yes, Whose No? The Intrinsic Disorder of Me Jesus Never Said I Couldn’t Paint the Baby! “Is There Room for Sarah? (Specific to topic of Transgender) Marriage, Not a Right, but an Office Francis Allows Gay Priests to... Read more
Over at Geek Goes Catholic, Jonathan Ryan writes occasionally and movingly about his reversion to Catholicism. This piece, and the vivid visual power of it, makes me think his story should be a film!: He knows that some of the people in his small town look down on him and his family for being poor. Most of the time that doesn’t matter because he still has baseball, books that fuel his scary imagination, and the arms of the Catholic Church.... Read more
Okay, regular readers must remember how much I loved Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, both video series and book? I wrote about it a lot, because it was like a call to revolution — a Revolution of Re-appreciation of the church, from its earliest beauties and truths. For me, Father Robert Barron’s book (and video) remains one of the first great Evangelical tools of the new century. Okay, enough gushing. So, I get a note from... Read more
It’s not really a surprise. Back when CBS News confirmed that the reporter’s computer had been hacked, one sensed a tension when reading between the lines. Sharyl Attkisson had this habit of putting aside dictation in order to do actual investigative reporting — a tendency that got her labeled (this is rich) “biased.” Now, after over twenty years at what used to be the most respected network news division in mainstream media, Attkisson is gone: CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl... Read more
Just because I prefer, on Sundays, to attend the Mass of the Very Old Men doesn’t mean I often make it. It’s a very early mass and despite my love of the silence, and the prayerful examples of the regular attendees, abandoning my warm bed for it — particularly this winter — has not been a priority. Having turned the clocks ahead last night, the chances of my making early mass today were even more reduced, but a restless husband... Read more
Maybe it’s me but there seem to be a lot of “oh no! It’s Lent! We’re going meatless for a day and how shall we endure it!” sorts of posts showing up on the ‘net this year, and I’m puzzled about it. I mean, it’s one meatless day. I’m betting many of us experience them at least once a week, without thinking about it. We might get up and have cereal or waffles in the morning, and then an egg-salad... Read more
I hope Randa Jarrar will break the news to Zaineb Abdul-Nabi, the young, female student-filmmaker featured among a group of six talented young people at last week’s Oscar telecast, that Zaineb cannot make movies because they didn’t originate within her culture. Hey, it’s not my call. I’m all for a young Arab-American woman becoming a cinematographer, if she wants, but Jarrar says, no — that people have no business “appropriating” artforms outside their culture. Because purity or something — I... Read more
What I am already discovering in this first day of Lent is that I am being drawn out, into the desert. The first word in the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict is “Listen” and I am being asked to rediscover silence and learn to listen again. To slow down and look at beautiful things, too. Because this is so, I have already let folks in social media know that — while I will still be posting Patheos work and interesting... Read more
The sun is beginning to set. We’re just a few hours away from quietening down for Lent and it’s odd, but all day I have felt — alone in my office, as I am — a sense of party. I’ve nibbled at chocolate all day, even though I shouldn’t, because it’s Fat Tuesday and a worldly sort of day. Even so, I’ve been collecting some interesting resources to share with you all — things to help you achieve at least... Read more
So, you know all this brouhaha, all these hysterics about how bakers, and photographers, and other service-providers who routinely work for gay clientele (but draw a line at serving gay weddings because they feel it imperils their souls) are horrible people? And you know the whole “if you think that way, then you’re a bigot,” thing, because governments and pundits have taken it into their heads that it is their job to define “sin” to another person? And you know... Read more
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