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April 2014

April 05, 2014

Poverty and Property

Earlier this week I was in Morristown New Jersey to speak to a group of...

April 04, 2014

Can You Four-give?

School Mass today and the theme is forgiveness. So I tell a story about Jimmy...

April 04, 2014

Archbishops Should Live in Palaces

This blog is called Standing on My Head, so while everybody is pouting and posturing...

April 02, 2014

Christianity Without Christ

This Lent I've gone back to basics and not only read Mark's gospel, but have...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

The Table Turning Jesus

Here is my latest article for Catholic Online Pope Francis has reminded us that the...

March 26, 2014

Faithworks! 21

Here is the link to my free weekly newsletter. This week there are articles on...

March 21, 2014

Idol Speculation

Here is my latest published article for Integrated Catholic Life--on the use of material things...

March 19, 2014

First Aid Kit Confession

My boys have this video game where they are soldiers fighting in war. They have...

March 17, 2014

The Snakes of St Patrick

The other day I saw a snarky comment about the legend of St Patrick casting...

March 12, 2014

Gouge Out Your Eyes

Jesus makes a shocking statement when he says that if your eye offends you it...

March 11, 2014

On God Being a Child

It occurs to me in watching children play that they know something that we have...

March 08, 2014

The Clash in Contemporary Christianity

As I travel, and experience Christianity around the world what strikes me most is that...

March 08, 2014

Send My Roots Rain

Lent is a time to deepen our spiritual lives and open our hearts to the...

March 08, 2014

In Rome for Lent

Treated myself to George Weigel's Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches by George Weigel, Elizabeth Lev...

March 06, 2014

The Hidden Historicity of the Gospels

If you're following my Lenten Blobble Study--a Bible study on a blog--you might be interested...

March 05, 2014

Do Aliens Believe in God?

Morgan Freeman--the actor who has played God in a couple of films--speculates here on the...

March 05, 2014

Repentance and Responsibility

Every year in Lent I'm reminded of how healthy repentance is. The default setting for the...

March 05, 2014

Why Utilitarianism is Useless

Here is my latest article for The Imaginative Conservative--on why utilitarianism does not bring the...

March 04, 2014

Forgiving Ourselves for Lent

Dr Greg Popcak gives some sage advice on making spiritual progress over at his blog:...

March 03, 2014

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

On Saturday I attended the first South Carolina Catholic Men's Conference. At the book table...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

The Subtleties of Satan

Are demons and angels real? There are an increasing numbers of new stories about exorcism...

February 20, 2014

Why is America is Going Godless?

Peter Foster is the American editor of London's Daily Telegraph. He reports here on the...

February 20, 2014

Catholic Enemies Make Strange Bedfellows

My friend Kathy Schiffer posts quotable quotes from time to time and today she has...

February 20, 2014

English Bishops Socialites and Socialists

There is a delicious quip in the acerbic English comedy series, Yes Prime Minister in which...

February 17, 2014

Renewal and Reform

The news services are buzzing today with Pope Francis' schedule this week. Everyone smells real...

February 15, 2014

Anglican Church in Meltdown

In 1992 I was an Anglican country vicar on the Isle of Wight. The Church...

February 14, 2014

Traditional Christians are Segregationists Now

Rod Dreher comments here on the implications of several recent court rulings on the same...

February 14, 2014

It’s a Small World

WORLD is the Christian magazine where Bob Jones IV (yes THE Bob Jones) is the...

February 13, 2014

Belgians Vote to Kill Children

Belgium already has one of the most aggressive euthanasia laws in the world, and now...

February 13, 2014

Anglicans Prepare for Same Sex Weddings

London's Daily Telegraph reports on the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech to General Synod here. The...

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