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2011-02-05T12:34:14-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Obama’s Humble Faith

Last updated on: February 5, 2011 at 12:34 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning, President Obama made a compelling case for something terribly unusual: Humble faith. Historically, Obama has been reticent to speak at length publicly about his Christian faith and has subsequently come under intense scrutiny by those who would seek to disprove his professed beliefs. During the prayer breakfast, the president gave more than just a glimpse into his spiritual life, detailing the how, when and what of his daily prayer... Read more

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2011-02-01T21:54:45-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Ugandan pall hangs over National Prayer Breakfast

Last updated on: February 1, 2011 at 9:54 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Last year, for the first time in its 57 years of existence, angry protests greeted the seemingly innocuous National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., an event that has been attended by every sitting president since Dwight D. Eisenhower — including Barack Obama. This year’s Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for Thursday morning, will convene under a disturbing pall cast by the Jan. 26 murder of David Kato, a well-known gay activist who was bludgeoned to death in his home in Kampala. Earlier... Read more

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2011-01-26T17:19:12-07:00

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

Last updated on: January 26, 2011 at 5:19 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Earlier this month, the Parents Television Council asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether Skins, an MTV remake of an award-winning British drama about high school kids, constitutes child pornography for its use of underage actors in highly sexualized scenarios. I’m no fan of censorship, and the PTC historically has veered into histrionic territory with its protestations of shows such as That 70’s Show, Will and Grace and Dawson’s Creek. Yet when it comes to MTV’s... Read more

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2011-01-19T15:12:28-07:00

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

Last updated on: January 19, 2011 at 3:12 pm By Cathleen Falsani

As HBO’s “Big Love” heads into its fifth and final season, series creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer are turning their attention back to the bread-and-butter themes that have made their show so compelling: faith and family. Gone are the non sequitur plot turns of last year’s frenetic season (that included, improbably, black market parrot trading, eugenics, and Native American casino gambling). The soul of “Big Love” has always dwelled in the living room(s) of the fictional Henrickson family,... Read more

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2011-01-19T14:39:45-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Jay Bakker on gays, his parents and grace

Last updated on: January 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm By Cathleen Falsani

When Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker‘s PTL ministry and Heritage USA theme park crashed and burned in the 1980s, their son Jay was sent into a dizzying downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and running from God. Now the pastor of Revolution NYC, an alternative church in Brooklyn, N.Y., Jay Bakker’s new book, Fall to Grace probes the power of God’s grace to “revolutionize” believers’ relationships with God, each other and larger society. Most provocatively, Bakker makes the case that homosexuality... Read more

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2011-01-14T17:45:53-07:00

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Group hug

Last updated on: January 14, 2011 at 5:45 pm By Cathleen Falsani

[wpvideo xuzFzNB2] Ok. That’s quite enough of that, thank you. Everybody needs a hug. Time to stop arguing (out loud or in your mind). Put down yer Bibles, dictionaries, bats, Greek lexicons, concordances, Hitchens books, stones, furrowed brows and tut-tuts. Find someone. Hug them. Maybe let them hug you? Repeat. Read more

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2011-01-12T13:59:34-07:00

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GODSTUFF: A Gay Awakening for the Church?

Last updated on: January 12, 2011 at 1:59 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Some of my dearest friends are gay. Most of my dearest friends are Christians. And more than a few of my dearest friends are gay Christians. As an evangelical, that last part is not something that, traditionally and culturally, I’m supposed to say out loud. For most of my life, I’ve been taught that it’s impossible to be both openly gay and authentically Christian. When a number of my friends “came out” shortly after our graduation from Wheaton College in... Read more

2011-01-05T14:49:15-07:00

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GODSTUFF: “True Grit”? True Grace.

Last updated on: January 5, 2011 at 2:49 pm By Cathleen Falsani

A little more than 30 years before the release of “True Grit,” the 15th film from brother-filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, the younger sibling, Ethan, wrote his senior thesis for Princeton University on the works of the Austrian philosopher Ludgwig Wittgenstein. One of Wittgenstein’s major areas of philosophical concern was religion and religious ideas, examining how people believe and express those beliefs in the way they define themselves and orient their lives. While it most assuredly would be a leap... Read more

2011-01-02T08:54:51-07:00

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2010 blogginess by the numbers

Last updated on: January 2, 2011 at 8:54 am By Cathleen Falsani

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it. In 2010, there were 164 new posts, growing the total archive... Read more

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2010-12-29T16:25:20-07:00

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

Last updated on: December 29, 2010 at 4:25 pm By Cathleen Falsani

I’ve been ridiculously blessed to be a part of a faith community grounded and characterized first and foremost in love. One of our pastors, Jay Grant, exudes love. He beams it. Says it. Gives it. Shows it. Tells it. And accepts it, lovingly. His sermon from last Sunday 12/26 is just what I needed to hear right now. Maybe it will be for you or someone you know, too. In the new year, may you let go of all that... Read more

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