Find out just where that is … Oh my.I haven’t been so taken with a new album as I am with Joan Osborne’s new “Little Wild One,” in longer than I can remember. It is, in a word, grace. Please go get it. Listen. Be blessed. It’s glorious. Thank you, Joan. Cathedrals In the shadowsof tall buildingsof fallen angelson the ceilingsOily feathersand bronzen concretefaded colorspieces left incompleteThe light moves slowlypast the electric fenceacross the bordersbetween continents In the Cathedralsof New... Read more

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GODSTUFF YOU CAN SUE GOD, BUT YOU CAN’T WIN Last week, a judge in Nebraska threw out a 2007 lawsuit filed against God by state Sen. Ernie Chambers, who had sought a permanent injunction against the Almighty for bringing “acts of terrorism” against the Cornhusker State. Chambers’ suit, which he claims he filed to protest the filing of other “frivolous” lawsuits, asked that an order be issued demanding God cease and desist from causing “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes,... Read more

Please pray for Toot! Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, (that’s her on the right with B and his grandfather Stanley Dunham) is not doing so well, so please remember her to her Creator in prayer. News reports late today said that Senator Obama has canceled campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Oahu, Hawaii (where he was raised for much of his childhood by the Dunhams, his mother’s parents) in order to visit the woman he calls “Toot”... Read more

GODSTUFF MY AURA’S BIGGER THAN YOUR AURA: FAT AND HAPPY Most women never want to hear that something they possess is “huge.” Their tush, for instance, or thighs, upper arms, ankles or credit card bill. So, I wasn’t quite sure how to react when the spa technician looked at a photograph of my aura he’d just taken and exclaimed, “It’s huge! I’ve never seen one so big. I couldn’t even fit it all in the frame.” Awesome, I thought. Even... Read more

GODSTUFF BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE: CREATING CULTURAL ARTIFACTS Not quite 200 years ago, the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley said something that is perhaps more true today than when he first put it down on paper: “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In his 1819 essay, “In Defense of Poetry,” Shelley elaborated on this notion, saying, “Poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and... Read more

God Girl and Div Boi do DC! For those of you couldn’t make it to the national launch of Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace in Washington, D.C. last month (HI MOM!), we are happy to provide you with a couple of snaps from the event at K Street (fab!) and also … drum roll please … AUDIO of the dog-and-pony show done by our own God Girl and her homey Jason DeRose of NPR (aka “Divinity Boi”). Have... Read more

Dr. Oz follow-up discussion? If anyone heard the Dr. Oz segment with God Girl on Oprah Radio and would like to start an online discussion about it – or, moreso, about the ideas of Grace that Cathleen talks about in Sin Boldly – the radio network has happily set up a way to do that. Click HERE to start or join a discussion about Grace, Sin Boldly, God Girl and Dr. Oz. Read more

God Girl on OPRAH Radio Tomorrow!!! Cathleen joins Dr. Mehmet Oz on his Oprah & Friends Radio show tomorrow, Friday October 3. The hourlong program begins airing on Oprah’s XM Satellite Radio Network at: 1 a.m.7 a.m.and6 p.m. All Times EASTERN If you don’t have XM radio, there is a free 30-day online trial for Oprah listeners available by clicking HERE Oprah Radio is describing the conversation between God Girl and Dr. Oz like this: “The God Factor — Defining... Read more

GODSTUFF OUR TRASH, OUR TREASURE: MAKE EVERY MONDAY MATTER The salad days these surely are not. Lately, it’s hard to have a sunny outlook on life, what with news of our nation’s imminent financial ruin, wars and rumors of wars raging around the globe, natural disasters, pandemics, pestilence and the unflinching spotlight glaring on the increasing polarization — political, religious, ideological — of our society. In the words of that great post-modern sage and seer, Jeffrey “the Dude” Lebowski: “It’s... Read more