Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

God and the Machine

Home
About

Home
Catholic

2015-07-27T14:03:07-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Monster

Last updated on: July 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

Do you refuse to read Orson Scott Card but not Marion Zimmer Bradley? Then you’re a damn hypocrite. And you have terrible taste in literature. Orson Scott Card is a very nice guy and a talented writer who has never hurt a fly. Unfortunately, he has an opinion you don’t like, you poor baby. Marion Zimmer Bradley was a monster. No, that’s not hyperbole: she was an actual monster in human skin. This is a woman who tied her daughter to... Read more

2015-07-24T12:39:22-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Burnt Biblical Scroll Deciphered by Digital Technology

Last updated on: July 24, 2015 at 12:39 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

A burnt scroll discovered inside in the synagogue at Ein Gedi, Israel can finally be read thanks to new technology. At first considered a lost cause because it was both wrapped and burnt, University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales were able to digitally “unwrap” it to reveal the oldest lines of Leviticus (Lev 1:1-8) discovered since the Dead Sea Scrolls. The combination of high-resolution scanning and the team’s “unwrapping” software made the discovery possible. The scroll was discovered in 1970 at an excavation... Read more

2015-07-23T17:40:47-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

White Liberal Talking Head Says Something Incredibly Dumb

Last updated on: July 23, 2015 at 5:40 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

Must be a day that ends in a Y. Sally Kohn is some kind of CNN host, I guess. (I don’t have cable, so I’m going by the first couple inches of a Google search, which is as much as I care about Sally Kohn.) I assume she’s just another Sean Hannity: people paid to say provocatively stupid things in order to attract viewers so their corporate masters can sell more deodorant and cars. I tend to think people who get their... Read more

Abortion

Media

Racism

2015-07-23T16:20:55-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Demons and Mental Illness: An Hour with Fr. Mike Driscoll

Last updated on: July 23, 2015 at 4:20 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

Mark Shea and I spent an informative hour on the radio with Fr. Driscoll, author of Demons, Deliverance, Discernment : Separating Fact from Fiction about the Spirit World. Check it out: Read more

2015-07-22T10:52:49-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

What It’s Like to Fight in Armor

Last updated on: July 22, 2015 at 10:52 am By Thomas L. McDonald

You may be surprised. While there are certainly stories about knights who drowned in shallow water because they couldn’t stand up in armor, that wasn’t the norm. Read more

2015-07-16T16:14:44-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

How I Imagine Mainstream TV News

Last updated on: July 16, 2015 at 4:14 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

NEWS ANCHOR: Coming up, we have an interview with an eyewitness who drove by the site where four Marines were murdered in Tennessee. She thinks she may have seen a car displaying a Confederate flag in the parking lot. [pause] NEWS ANCHOR: Wait, this just in: Police have identified the shooter. His name is Muhamm- [stops abruptly, listens to earpiece, nods] NEWS ANCHOR: And now we go to breaking news. Caitlyn Jenner has just chosen a brand of depilatory. Phil? What... Read more

Media

News

2015-07-16T15:08:34-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

My Chickens Are Smarter Than Animal Rights Activists

Last updated on: July 16, 2015 at 3:08 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

It’s county fair season here the wild parts of America, which means farm animals, tractor pulls, goat races, games, fair food, rides, and good old American small town entertainment. My wife and daughter are active in 4H, and they’re helping staff the poultry tent this week, as they do every year. My daughter wouldn’t miss one minute of it. All of the animal tents are run by 4H, which is for kids 18 years old and under who love, raise, care... Read more

2015-07-16T10:54:14-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Charles Dickens Solves a Mystery 145 Years After His Death

Last updated on: July 16, 2015 at 10:54 am By Thomas L. McDonald

This is the kind of discovery literary scholars dream of but never hope to find: a cache of notations in the handwriting of Charles Dickens that reveals lost works by major authors. Bookseller Jeremy Parrott ordered a bound collection of All the Year Round, a publication edited by Charles Dickens, from an online book dealer. The listing didn’t mention any annotations, but when Parrott began looking at the volumes he realized that not only was he holding the set that... Read more

2015-07-14T16:22:17-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The NAACP Sets Its Sights on Stone Mountain

Last updated on: July 14, 2015 at 4:22 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

The figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson carved into the face of Georgia’s Stone Mountain form the largest bas-relief in the world. That they also depict three men who took up arms against their nation and helped plunge this country into its bloodiest period in history, all in the name of a vile institution that even a moral idiot could see needed to end, is one of those disturbing and uncomfortable facts of history. But it is a... Read more

2015-07-13T16:26:38-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Reenacting A Crusader Battle

Last updated on: July 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm By Thomas L. McDonald

Last week, a group of Russian and Israeli history buffs and reenactors staged the Battle of Hattin, in which Saladin routed the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem near the same extinct volcano in Israel where the original battle was fought July 3rd and 4th, 1187. Replete with swords, shields and body armor, the group marched 27 kilometers (17 miles) this weekend while re-enacting one of the most significant battles of the Middle Ages. The level of detail went down to the use... Read more

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What Christian tradition refers to its pastors as "elders"?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Catholic Anglican Orthodox Presbyterian

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Abortion Anthropology Archaeology Art Bible Books Chickens Church Computers Culture Wars Evil Fiction Film Games Ghosts Gospel of John Gospels History How I Pray Internet iPhone Islam Israel Jesus Judaism Language Lent Literature Marshall McLuhan Media Medieval Mental Health Mobile Movies Neil Postman News Old Testament Personal Political Pope Pope Benedict Pope Francis Prayer Robots Satan Sciency Sex Shakespeare Social Media Software St. Augustine Synod Synod on the Family Tarot Technology Television Theology Transhumanism Uncategorized Verbum

Select a Month November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Catholic