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April 2011

April 07, 2011

GODSTUFF: Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, naughty-pope style in “The Borgias”

The Catholic Church is an evergreen for pop culture clashes. There's something about Catholicism that...

April 05, 2011

GODSTUFF: Church of the Holy Hand Grenade

The website of the Dove World Outreach Center describes the tiny church in Gainesville, Fla.,...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

GODSTUFF: Oops, we did it again.

Consuming Spears as a product or commodity -- chewing her up, and spitting her out...

March 28, 2011

GODSTUFF: Fasting and Praying for a Moral Federal Budget

"When your remind Americans what's going on, what is really happening in the world and...

March 25, 2011

DJ JEFF’S SPINTASM DU JOUR: Nitin Sawhney & Natty, “Days of Fire”

DJ Jeff is full of surprises tonite... I completely forgot that I had this album...

March 25, 2011

GODSTUFF: ‘Tis the season…for re-evaluating the Bible, apparently.

Each year, publishers roll out dozens of new religiously themed books in the months and...

March 22, 2011

GODSTUFF: Bruce Cockburn’s “Small Source of Comfort” on the journey

There's roads and there's roads And they call, can't you hear it? Roads of the...

March 22, 2011

Coming to a bookstore near you 9/27/11: BELIEBER! The Book.

No, this isn't a joke. Yes, this is a real and a serious book. As...

March 17, 2011

GODSTUFF: One Nation Under Allah?

American Islam, like American Christianity, is not a monolith.

March 16, 2011

Love Wins: Transcript of my interview with Rob Bell

Monday morning, 8 a.m PST. My phone rings. It’s Rob Bell calling from New York...

March 14, 2011

GODSTUFF: Heretic, Shmeretic. Love Wins.

Rob Bell is a heretic. And so are you. But that's the good news. It's...

March 13, 2011

Abolition of the Death Penalty? What do you think?

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March 13, 2011

GODSTUFF: Will people of faith support abolition of the Death Penalty?

Religious leaders long have been at the forefront of the death penalty abolitionist movement in...

March 08, 2011

GODSTUFF: “The Adjustment Bureau” asks whether it’s possible to change God’s mind

The Chairman -- i.e., God -- has written the stories of our lives and the...

March 03, 2011

GODSTUFF: “The Sunset Limited” ~ Big ideas in a small film

Art is maddeningly dynamic. It does not, and will not, mean the same thing to...

March 01, 2011

GODSTUFF: Homosexuality on Christian college campus

Late last week, the provost of Belmont University in Nashville announced that the school officially...

February 2011

February 18, 2011

GODSTUFF: Stuff we don’t want, stuff they don’t need?

On a recent family trip to Africa, spotting locals wearing T-shirts and baseball caps bearing...

February 15, 2011

GODSTUFF: Living Leviticus ~ Who could do it? Who would want to?

It is entirely possible to be a church-going Christian for 40 years and never hear...

February 10, 2011

GODSTUFF: iConfess (Getting theologically clean in the Church of Apple)

Theologians, psychologists and sociologists agree about the benefits -- spiritual, emotional and communal -- of...

February 08, 2011

GODSTUFF: “The Rite.” Something to believe in?

There are two equal and opposite errors into which the human race can fall about...

February 05, 2011

GODSTUFF: Obama’s Humble Faith

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning, President Obama made a...

February 01, 2011

GODSTUFF: Ugandan pall hangs over National Prayer Breakfast

Last year, for the first time in its 57 years of existence, angry protests greeted...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

GODSTUFF: MTV overestimates our appetite for flesh with “Skins”

Earlier this month, the Parents Television Council asked the U.S. Justice Department to...

January 19, 2011

GODSTUFF: Faith, family and failure in “Big Love”

As HBO's "Big Love" heads into its fifth and final season, series creators Mark V....

January 19, 2011

GODSTUFF: Jay Bakker on gays, his parents and grace

When Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL ministry and Heritage USA theme park crashed and...

January 14, 2011

Group hug

[wpvideo xuzFzNB2] Ok. That's quite enough of that, thank you. Everybody needs a hug....

January 12, 2011

GODSTUFF: A Gay Awakening for the Church?

Some of my dearest friends are gay. Most of my dearest friends are Christians. And...

January 05, 2011

GODSTUFF: “True Grit”? True Grace.

A little more than 30 years before the release of “True Grit,” the 15th film...

January 02, 2011

2010 blogginess by the numbers

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and...

December 2010

December 29, 2010

Taking stock at year’s end: “Do You Love?”

I've been ridiculously blessed to be a part of a faith community grounded and characterized...

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