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April 2009

April 06, 2009

Passover 2009, minus God

Passover is almost here, which means Jewish families are preparing once again to taste familiar...

March 2009

March 30, 2009

Angels, demons, Hanks & God

To hear Tom Hanks describe him, the hero who broke "The Da Vinci Code" is...

March 23, 2009

Bullets, Bibles and Big Questions

By age 14, Cassie Griffin had collected a bedroom full of toy frogs, each a...

March 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh, liberal heretic?

The joke was old, old, old and Rush Limbaugh knew that when -- tongue firmly...

March 09, 2009

Memory eternal: Healer for the healers

Some of the seminarians in the Bible Belt chapel were shaken when Dr. Louis McBurney...

March 02, 2009

Define “spiritual.” Pick three films

The hero is stranded on a dying planet, lonely and yearning for companionship. Then a...

February 2009

February 23, 2009

Nailing the evangelical fads

The upperclassman sat across the cafeteria table from freshman Joe Carter and, in a matter...

February 16, 2009

Case by case government doctrines

Welcome to the church-state battlefield, President Barack Obama. Consider this hypothetical landmine: Would it be...

February 09, 2009

Facing the unChristian reality

Times were hard for the single mother and her 4-year-old son, so she did what...

February 02, 2009

Prayers in a minefield (civil religion II)

Phyllis Tickle tried to pay close attention to the prayers at the inauguration of President...

January 2009

January 25, 2009

Our political high holy day, part I

EDITOR'S NOTE: First of two columns on President Barack Obama's inauguration. As Aretha Franklin finished...

January 19, 2009

Searching for gray on abortion

When it comes to abortion, the vast majority of Americans know what they want and...

January 12, 2009

Memory eternal, Paul Weyrich

It was the kind of quote that is catnip for politicos and scribes inside the...

January 05, 2009

Politics dominate 2008 religion

After waves of headlines about faith and politics, President-elect Barack Obama was the clear choice...

January 01, 2009

That other speech at Notre Dame

It was hard to ignore the papal bull condemning the slave trade, which was read...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

Gently fighting for Christmas

Merry Christmas. No, honest, as in "the 12 days of" you know what between Dec....

December 22, 2008

What, me worry? Whatever II

EDITOR'S NOTE: Second of two columns on teens and ethics. When pollsters ask Americans the...

December 15, 2008

What, me worry? Whatever

EDITOR'S NOTE: First of two columns on teens and ethics. Take comfort in this: The...

December 07, 2008

Joking about Jonestown

It only takes a few words to call back the memories from 30 years ago,...

November 2008

November 26, 2008

Orthodox bishop on hot spot

When an Orthodox bishop enters a sanctuary, he is traditionally greeted with the following words...

November 19, 2008

When journalists don’t get religion

Richard N. Ostling has never gotten used to seeing journalists commit sins of omission and...

November 12, 2008

Hiding behind altars

If you want to cause trouble for American bishops, stick them in a vise between...

November 05, 2008

Hiding behind pulpits

Reporter Louis Moore didn't know much about the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod when he began covering...

October 2008

October 29, 2008

That global blind spot

BERKELEY, Calif. -- The interfaith coalition that formed in the 1990s to lobby for religious...

October 22, 2008

Culture wars 2008

If you could erase one moment from Sen. Barack Obama's White House campaign, which would...

October 15, 2008

Obama meets The 700 Club

NASHVILLE -- Washington correspondent David Brody knew it was a symbolic moment when Democratic Party...

October 08, 2008

Beyond Orthodox folk dancing

These were the sad, sobering conversations that priests have when no one else is listening.Father...

October 01, 2008

Wink, wink pulpit wars

The political endorsement was clear, although the words were carefully chosen. New Hampshire Bishop V....

September 2008

September 24, 2008

Out the church door

At the last church she attended before dropping out, Julia Duin was not impressed with...

September 17, 2008

Gov. Sarah Palin, Antichrist

The punch line rocketed around the World Wide Web, inspiring smiles in pews friendly to...