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October 2010

October 29, 2010

Welcome to the Communion of the Saints, Wee Man

[wpvideo mgQ8Dky5] The stunningly beautiful images of Vasco's baptism last Saturday in the Pacific at...

October 27, 2010

GODSTUFF: Your story is our story.

Vasco was baptized in the same waters where the ashes of the uncle he never...

October 26, 2010

GODSTUFF: “The Social Network” and waiting on a friend request

The theater was empty but for two college-aged guys when I went to see a...

October 13, 2010

GODSTUFF: Forty on 40 ~ Spiritual Lessons at Midlife…

40. There is nothing you can do that would make God throw up God’s hands,...

October 07, 2010

GODSTUFF: Thrift Store Saints

What I actually know about God might, on a good day, fit on a quarter...

September 2010

September 28, 2010

GODSTUFF: Why be less bad when we can be 100 percent good?

While I’m no militant environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination (I recycle; I don’t...

September 28, 2010

Bonus SWAG GRAB QUIZ: How would you score on Pew’s new religion test?

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life today released the fascinating (some might say...

September 17, 2010

Gemar Chatima Tova: Yom Kippur 2010

The Yom Kippur Drunk: A Story about the Day of Atonement, as told by Yanki...

September 13, 2010

I Take Requests: “Quaking ~ Enjoying the silence with some Friends”

I've been meaning to mention that I do, in fact, take requests. Over the weekend...

September 08, 2010

Celebrity culture and our cultural worship: My conversation with Jeffrey Overstreet in The Other Journal

Listen to part One of a two-part interview my homechunk Jeffrey Overstreet did earlier this...

September 08, 2010

GODSTUFF: Praying for your kids and their Anam Cara

Tuesday was the first day of school here in our sleepy seaside town in southern...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

GODSTUFF: The mirror has two faces

Six years ago, I sat down with a young Illinois state senator for a lengthy...

August 25, 2010

Worth a look: Other crazazy things 1 in 5 Americans believe

Ross Luippold over at HuffPo has a great piece on some of the other wackadoodle...

August 24, 2010

Welcome home. The Dude is in.

Welcome home. The Dude is in.... Let us live in this love and this happiness,...

August 23, 2010

July 2010

July 30, 2010

God Nods: Girl with the dragonfly tattoo

Dragonflies have a way of turning up at threshold moments in my life--like God's early...

July 29, 2010

GODSTUFF: For better or for worse, by the power vested in me …

Honor is a destination and through the act of honoring another person — our life...

July 16, 2010

GODSTUFF

HEAVENBOUND: GENEVIEVE'S JOURNEY HOMEGracefully, she put her head down on the pillow, took a few...

July 01, 2010

GODSTUFF

CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL DRINKING: CHEERS! Picture, if you will, a husband and wife — he...

June 2010

June 26, 2010

AN OPEN LETTER TO MADONNA: THANK YOU, FROM ONE MOTHER TO ANOTHER

Dear Madonna, Thank you. Earlier this week, after a month-long sojourn in Malawi, my family...

May 2010

May 23, 2010

Secret Church: Welcome home…

Secret Church: Welcome home... For more than fifteen years, I didn't go to church. I...

August 2008

August 01, 2008

August’s Spiritual Bounty: First Fruits

At last . . . August. Summer's languid afternoon. The loveliest, laziest days of the...

May 2008

May 09, 2008

Evangelicals try to reclaim their good name

April 2008

April 18, 2008

Goodbye to a Wise and Godly Friend

On April 11, my college buddy Mark Metherell died in Iraq when the vehicle he...

February 2008

February 29, 2008

Man in Black: America’s soul

No one embodied nation's spirituality like Johnny Cash Chicago Sun Times February 29, 2008 Friday,...

October 2007

October 12, 2007

Sisterhood is Powerful

ASEMBO BAY, Kenya — "You can still smell it," Millicent said in Swahili. The only...

October 06, 2007

Seventy-Five Dollars

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Around the corner from Grace's house in an impoverished neighborhood on...