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December 2011

December 06, 2011

Share Your Favorite Religious Joke!

In the spirit of the new book Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter are...

December 05, 2011

Deep Joy and Deep Trouble

[This post is part of a conversation on the new book Between Heaven and Mirth:...

December 05, 2011

Between Heaven and Mirth: Twitter Excerpt #3

The Between Heaven and Mirth Twitter Book Club continues this week with our third excerpt,...

December 01, 2011

Between Heaven and Mirth: Twitter Excerpt #2

It's Day Two -- and Excerpt #2 -- of our Twitter Book Club on Between...

December 01, 2011

Between Heaven and Mirth Twitter Book Club Schedule

Need a little levity this holiday season? This month, you’re invited to join the Patheos...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Between Heaven and Mirth: Join the Twitter Book Club

Think the spiritual life has to be so serious? Think again, says Fr. Jim Martin,...

November 30, 2011

A Barrel of Laughs & a Pile to Think about

I love to laugh, and maybe that's part of the reason I was attracted to...

November 29, 2011

Bloom Where You’re Planted

"Streams of Contentment" is a book full of smiles—or at least, that was my experience....

November 23, 2011

Left, Right, and That Other One

By Jonathan Fitzgerald [This post is part of a conversation hosted at the Patheos Book...

November 23, 2011

Clarifying the Issues

[This post by David Swartz is part of a conversation hosted at the Patheos Book Club...

November 22, 2011

Left, Right, and Christ: Our Common Ground

By Anna Quinn [This post is part of a conversation hosted at the Patheos Book...

November 21, 2011

Bruce Epperly on 25 Books Every Christian Should Read

By Bruce G. Epperly [This post is part of a conversation featured at the Patheos...

November 18, 2011

God in a Brothel: A Call to Action

“I began to wonder what would happen if men everywhere embraced their God-given destiny to...

November 18, 2011

Just 25? Renovare’s Guide to Spiritual Reading

[Editor's Note: This post by Fred Schmidt is part of a conversation about the new...

November 17, 2011

God in a Brothel: A Story of Love, Liberation and Bravado

A story of love, liberation and bravado, God in a Brothel is an effective text...

November 16, 2011

Brad Hirschfield: Is the Paranormal Real?

So why did I like this book? Because while Mutants & Mystics may have fought...

November 14, 2011

Yep, We’re All Superman: Mutants & Mystics’ Jeff Kripal Responds….

I really enjoyed all of the blogs and reviews about my book, Mutants & Mystics,...

November 11, 2011

The Origin Stories of Mutants, Mystics and Messiahs

: It may be difficult to accept the existence of paranormal activity, until you realize...

November 09, 2011

Santa in a Brothel

Instead of merely giving some money to a few vulnerable girls, what if we organized...

November 07, 2011

Mysticism, Paranormal, and the Super-Story

In our Western post-Christendom, pluralistic context the time has come to move beyond denunciation to...

November 07, 2011

Mutants & Mystics: Laying the Scholarly Mask Aside

In Mutants & Mystics, Jeffrey Kripal has fearlessly put down on the page the connections...

November 07, 2011

These Children Have Names

"God in a Brothel" isn’t about nameless, faceless children. It’s about real children – children...

November 02, 2011

God in a Brothel: Can We Handle the Truth?

Daniel Walker gives much to disturb and goad us to action and prayer. The question...

November 01, 2011

Contentment and Restlessness: A Review of Streams of Contentment

Reading Wicks most recent book, Streams of Contentment, has inspired me to reflect on the...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Q&A: Monsters in America

As part of our roundtable conversation on Monsters in America, we invited our bloggers to...

October 21, 2011

Sublime Grace

All Is Grace is not a thick book in terms of the number of pages,...

October 19, 2011

Unconditional, but Variable, Grace

In a world in which so many people, self-righteously separate the saved and unsaved, insiders...

October 17, 2011

Mark Yaconelli on Grace

I thank God for the ancient and holy ruin of a soul that Brennan has...

October 12, 2011

Catholicism: Out of Beige and into Beauty

Fr. Barron’s style instructs without being pedantic. There is an underlying joy in what he...

October 11, 2011

Rendering Truth in Succinct Simplicity

I have started this book review so many times, I can’t even begin to count...