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March 2011

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

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 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

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...

December 2010

December 15, 2010

GODSTUFF: So, what’s your calling?

While their paths to religious vocation are as varied as their personalities and personal histories,...

December 09, 2010

GODSTUFF: Knit one. Pray two.

We are hard-wired to be innately creative beings, compelled to create because we are made...

December 02, 2010

GODSTUFF: There’s Something about Mary (and Great Expectations)

Scared child. Proud parent. Beloved icon. Soul sister. In her startlingly beautiful new book, Full...

November 2010

November 24, 2010

GODSTUFF: Giving thanks for abundance in a time of scarcity

Calling it a “beloved American tradition” in his official proclamation this week, President Obama reminded...

November 18, 2010

GODSTUFF: Need religion? There’s an app for that.

Looking for a little old-time religion? There's an app for that. Many of us use...

November 10, 2010

GODSTUFF: The Peter (Pan) Principle

The boy smushed, pulled and tugged at Robin Williams’ face, searching with great earnest. Shoving...

November 09, 2010

Two Thumbs Way Up: Pre-order “Love You More” by Jennafierce Grant today on Amazon!!

This is Jen and Mimi (given name Mia Claire) her youngest daughter. They are two...

November 04, 2010

GODSTUFF: “The Big C” and Cosmic Mulligans

As Cathy grapples for a rudder to steer the drifting ship of her soul, faith...