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December 2014

December 01, 2014

LISTEN: God Girl on the Steve Brown Show!

Jennifer Grant, my dear friend and co-editor of Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good...

November 2014

November 07, 2014

Just As I Am

I don’t think you’re an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the...

November 03, 2014

Guest Post: Linda Midgett’s Disquieting Showdown with the “Proverbs 31 Woman”

I don’t have a problem with the passage itself as much as I have a...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Guest Post: Ina Albert on Changing Faces of Spirit

But the reason I returned to Judaism was not a deep-seated belief in G-d. It...

October 16, 2014

DISQUIET TIME: Welcome to the Land of Misfit Toys

We see God’s spirit shining through each other’s eyes as we grant ourselves permission and...

October 15, 2014

Are You Skepical, Faithful, or a Scoundrel? Take the Disquieting Bible Quiz!

Are You Skepical, Faithful, or a Scoundrel? Take the Disquieting Bible Quiz!.

March 2014

March 31, 2014

The Poem That Inspired Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

During our conversation, Aronofsky talked about a prose-poem he'd written as a 13-year-old seventh grader...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

On Justin Bieber’s Annus Horribilis : My Interview with Joshua DuBois

We have the responsibility to be kind to one another, and that responsibility extends to...

January 23, 2014

On Justin Bieber’s Arrest in Miami Beach

I have been turning down interview requests for months because I have had nothing constructive...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

@PONTIFEXCELLENT: Noses & Kisses

"Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked,...

November 06, 2013

@PONTIFEXCELLENT: Baby Noemi

A prayer for one little girl among a crowd of 50k+: For Noemi, "Let's express...

November 05, 2013

@PONTIFEXCELLENT: LGBTQ

on May 18, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. Papa Frank cares about all of his...

November 03, 2013

PASTRIX Bonus

"I’m almost always stricken by an experience of God. Broken into a million pieces and...

January 2013

January 09, 2013

My Open Letter to Justin Bieber on CNN.com

Whether you’ve partaken of the “sacred herb” just once or burn more cabbage than Tommy...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

GoodRead du Jour: ‘Let My Tebow Go’ in the NYTimes

"The virginity, the anti-abortion ad, the praying, the laying on of hands, the Tebowing —...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

GODSTUFF: God Girl and Eugene Peterson on Navigating Change

“There’s an elusive quality to life itself and if we try to hard, we miss...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

UPDATE: The ’06 Bruce Cockburn “God Factor” Interview NOW WITH AUDIO

As for our public "interview," it too remains one of my favorite of all time....

April 2011

April 14, 2011

GODSTUFF: Trump Presidency Doesn’t Have a Prayer

Let's just cut to the chase: "The Donald" has as good a chance of becoming...

December 2010

December 09, 2010

GODSTUFF: Knit one. Pray two.

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

November 2010

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...

October 2010

October 10, 2010

People of the Second Chance: U2&Faith Quiz Extended Until TUESDAY 9:30 a.m.

Wow. I guess it really is a tough quiz. By the time the quiz expired...

October 08, 2010

Friday Swag Bag Grab Quiz: U2 and Faith – Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For?

We're a wee bit late celebrating U2's 34th birthday (September 25, 1976), but what the...

October 07, 2010

GODSTUFF: Thrift Store Saints

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

October 01, 2010

FRIDAY SWAG BAG GRAB QUIZ: Who sang that? Religious imagery in rock ‘n’ roll

Happy Friday! In today's quiz, test your knowledge of religious imagery in rock 'n' roll....

September 2010

September 17, 2010

FRIDAY SWAG GRAB: Who said that? QUIZ (and you have the weekend to complete it!)

Welcome back to the Friday Swag Grab contest. This week we have a (hopefully easier...

September 13, 2010

A Little Happy (or a Lotta in this case): David Wilcox and “Show the Way”

[wpvideo xbHURZ8q] David is on tour right now. RUN out and see him if you...

September 10, 2010

SWAG GRAB!! Our inaugural Friday contest — it’s a QUIZ!!

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR CELEBRITIES? HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR RELIGIONS? TAKE...

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 06, 2010

Today…in God: Weekend redux.

Charles M. Blow in the New York Times on Religious Outliers With all of the...

August 2010

August 24, 2010

A little happy: The Snuggarena!

Got a bad taste in your mouth from all the birther-he's-a-Muslim-or-maybe-the-antiChrist-but-certainly-not-a-REAL-Christian nonsense of the last...