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December 2013

December 16, 2013

Eye to eye with Mother Teresa (farewell to Scripps Howard)

Mother Teresa was having a bad press conference. Journalists gathered for her 1989 Denver visit...

December 09, 2013

The man from Buenos Aires vs. dead Catholic museums

BUENOS AIRES -- It's hard to wrestle with the crucial moral and cultural issues in...

December 02, 2013

C.S. Lewis: Still too popular after 50 years

Even though it has been 50 years since his death, the faithful at Headington Parish...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Guess the winner: Woodstock vs. religious liberty

Blame it on Woodstock. Cultural changes unleashed by the sexual revolution are affecting how millions...

November 18, 2013

Classic Billy Graham, at 95 years of age

The Rev. Billy Graham has been worried about the state of America's soul for a...

November 11, 2013

‘The Exorcist’ — Taking incarnate evil seriously for 40 years

In the middle of a New York Magazine dialogue on heaven and hell, damnation and...

November 04, 2013

‘Backsliders’ and the ‘unchurched’ equal the ‘Nones’?

Old-school preachers used to call them "backsliders," those folks who were raised in the pews...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Unusual challenge from a Greek Orthodox bishop

It happens all the time: Church leaders stand at podiums and urge members of their...

October 21, 2013

Military chaplains on Sexual Revolution front lines

It was in 1775 that General George Washington authorized chaplains in the Continental Army. "Purity...

October 14, 2013

A growing hole in the middle of American Jewry

There is a Yiddish saying about the mysteries of faith, family and fellowship that, loosely...

October 07, 2013

Hellish flashbacks on the Christian persecution front

Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of Islam threatened...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

The pope, the media and balance on pro-life ministries

It was the telephone call heard around the world, because the pope made the call....

September 23, 2013

Concerning God, sex, worship and babies

Pollsters have been asking Americans questions about God, sex and babies for a long time...

September 16, 2013

The evil the church already knows in Syria

For days, Christians with ties to Syria waited for news about the fighting in Maaloula,...

September 09, 2013

Lessons learned by professional church spies

The first thing Chuck Lawless noticed when he entered the church foyer was that the...

September 02, 2013

The Anglican wars roll on (and Holy Communion for dogs)

The German Shepherd's name was Trapper and he came to St. Peter's Anglican Church with...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Apple, iSacraments and this lonely age

Probing the mysteries of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI asked his flock gathered in 2006 to...

August 19, 2013

Concerning those screaming babies in Mass

It was a blunt, honest, raw question and Deacon Greg Kandra knew it would stir...

August 12, 2013

Protecting church flocks from real killers

It was a Saturday morning and the Rev. Jaman Iseminger had just dropped by to...

August 05, 2013

Sobering words for Brazil’s bishops

If Roman Catholicism can be compared with a fleet, then the Brazilian church has long...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Old religious realities in a not-so-new Egypt

At the moment, Egypt is operating under a Constitutional Declaration issued soon after the recent...

July 22, 2013

Goodbye to a radical Baptist patriarch

The old Southern preacher had walked through many airport security gates using his cherry-wood cane...

July 15, 2013

Rather faith-free WPost story about ministry to the hungry

As happens about this time every summer, tmatt headed to the Southern Highlands to take...

July 08, 2013

John Paul II and the death of ‘Christian’ America

It was just another day, another Washington, D.C., press conference and yet another appeal for...

July 02, 2013

Boy Scouts, canon law and trying to predict the future

Every since the gay Boy Scouts earthquake, many Catholics have been asking canon law expert...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

That Superman debate: Moses or the Messiah?

Without a doubt, it's one of the most famous and magical incantations in American pop...

June 17, 2013

Southern Baptists without (many) baptisms

Visitors who enter Southern Baptist churches these days will usually see posters and pamphlets for...

June 10, 2013

Making a case for the common hymnal

There was a time when the faithful in the heavily Dutch corners of the Midwest...

June 03, 2013

Fights among Catholics, with the IRS picking a side

There is nothing particularly unusual about conservative Catholics arguing with liberal Catholics, especially when it...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Into the depths of USA’s church-state Inferno

IRS Commissioner Steven Miller was already having a rough day at the House Ways and...