GODSTUFF AN OPEN LETTER TO A HEARTLESS THIEF An Open Letter to the person who broke into the SIFA African Children’s Choir van on Sunday afternoon in Lawndale: Maybe you thought you were taking things from people who had more than you do. Or maybe you thought you needed the money you could make from fencing the laptops and other items to slake a habit or make ends meet — more so than the people who owned them did. But... Read more

Uncle Teddy. Bless him. Read more

Upcoming opportunities to Sin Boldly! Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace is on sale now at Amazon.com and should hit the shelves of your local book seller in the next week or so. We wanted to let you know of a few upcoming events where you can hear God Girl wax eloquent (we hope) about her new book. Here’s what we can tell you about so far: 8 a.m. CST, Sunday August 31: WGN Radio’s “Sunday Papers” LIVE GG... Read more

GODSTUFF SOMETIMES BELIEVING IS SEEING: “HENRY POOLE” Miracle Noun from the Latin, miraculum, meaning “something wonderful” 1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs. _____________________________________________________ For a miracle to happen, do you need to believe it? The new film “Henry Poole is Here,” which opened last Friday, ambitiously tries to get at that question and does so with a quietly melancholy, difficult and powerful answer. Luke Wilson portrays the title character, a sad and angry man suffering from... Read more

An “Opinionated Old Fart” Takes on Sin Boldly A wonderful fellow named Clyde (that’s him in the hat and specs) out there in Beverly Hills has a really smart, fun, spiritually groovy blog called, “An Opinionated Old Fart Lives to Fight Another Day.” Frankly, we’re a little in love. We here at GG love Clyde and his musings, and so we were particularly chuffed to see his marvelous take on Sin Boldly. Here’s a bit of what Clyde had to... Read more

GODSTUFF SUNSCREEN, SWIMSUITS AND SUMMER READING Sunscreen, in 45, 30, 15 and 8 SPF. Check. Acidophilus capsules and Mylanta in case of Montezuma’s revenge. Check. A variety of bikinis and one black one-piece granny suit in case I’m too chicken to sport the two-piece variety. Check. I’m packing for a short trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — a long overdue mini-vacation after a long, looooooong year of writing. The last thing on my list is to decide which of... Read more

Just because AND she was a SPY! Seriously, Julia Child may have been the coolest dame ever. Read more

Scot McKnight on Sin Boldly Scot McKnight, the marvelous theologian and author of The Jesus Creed, Finding Faith, Losing Faith and the forthcoming The Blue Parakeet among many titles, has graciously blogged about Sin Boldly on his Web site, www.jesuscreed.org. Here’s what Scot, bless him, had to say: Grace Boldly Filed under: Missional — Scot McKnight @ 12:20 am Cathleen Falsani, an award-winning religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, calls her new book Sin Boldly and finishes it off with... Read more

GODSTUFF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN HUGHES Summertime is the slow season for most churches. Pastors are faced with the perennial phenomenon of watching their congregants disappear from the pews, taking a vacation from church as well as from work and school. At the Community Church of Wilmette, an American Baptist congregation that draws about 65 people for worship most Sundays, summer attendance drops by about half. Tripp Hudgins, the wonderfully clever pastor of Community Church, seized this year’s seasonal... Read more

Come hear God Girl Sin Boldly in Grand Rapids GG has her first Sin Boldly event this week – a reading and signing in G-Rap. Here are the details: WHEN: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 TIME: 7:00pm – 8:30pm WHERE: Shuler’s Books and Music2660 28th Street SEGrand Rapids, MI PHONE: 616.942.2561 Read more