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August 2000

August 23, 2000

When did J.S. Bach find time to pray?

Scholar Patrick Kavanaugh has heard oodles of baroque fugues and he swears that most of...

August 16, 2000

A visual tower of Babel

Anyone who turns on a television or goes to the movies in India cannot help...

August 09, 2000

Sir Alec Guinness, convert

When Sir Alec Guinness began pouring himself into a new character, the first thing he...

August 02, 2000

Building a faith-based prison?

Bill Robinson walked through prison doors many times in the 1960s, during the bad times...

July 2000

July 26, 2000

Billy and the anti-Billy

The Rev. Billy Graham doesn't have to worry about his legacy.For millions, he remains the...

July 19, 2000

Charting the sex wars, Pt. II

"Monogamy" isn't such a scary word, once people get the hang of redefining it to...

July 12, 2000

Charting the sex wars, Pt. I

You know the Episcopalians are in town when insiders do double takes at announcements for...

July 05, 2000

Doing conjugal evangelism

The nightmare begins when the Rev. Joe McKeever turns and faces the bride and groom.He...

June 2000

June 28, 2000

Return to Potter’s field

It was Harry Potter's 13th birthday and, since he was surrounded by his occult-o-phobic relatives,...

June 21, 2000

A Baptist facing East

The Romanesque sanctuary of South Main Baptist Church near downtown Houston may seem like a...

June 14, 2000

Squinting into the entertainment future

Steve Taylor and his Chagall Guevara colleagues were fired up when they arrived in Los...

June 07, 2000

Doubting the death penalty

Bud Welch was driving his daughter Julie-Marie home from college when a radio signal drifted...

May 2000

May 31, 2000

St. Raphael, a shepherd in America

NEW CANAAN, Pa. -- The icon is coming to life in Father Paul Albert's imagination...

May 24, 2000

Are journalists getting religion?

WASHINGTON -- The late, great religion writer George Cornell knew a big story when he...

May 17, 2000

Faith Popcorn’s spiritual cocktails

Way back in the 1990s, Faith Popcorn had a sports car with a driver's seat...

May 10, 2000

Cracking a Capitol Catch-22

On Sept. 18, 1793, President George Washington donned his Masonic apron and helped lay the...

May 03, 2000

The Turin Shroud & the Sudarium, part II

Holy Saturday was an appropriately solemn day at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,...

April 2000

April 26, 2000

New questions about the shroud, part one

Once a week, Barrie Schwortz digs into the computer data that describe who is using...

April 19, 2000

An Easter question — liar, lunatic or Lord?

Every now and then, messiahs slip past newspaper security personnel and pay visits to religion...

April 12, 2000

Year 12 — Microsoft, Mozart & hell

For the principalities and powers at Microsoft, these are the times that try geeks' souls.Then...

April 05, 2000

Why churches are silent on sex

All David Morrison has to do to find out what gay activists and religious conservatives...

March 2000

March 29, 2000

Jerusalem, the in-between city

JERUSALEM -- Hidden in the maze of passageways and shrines that is the Church of...

March 22, 2000

The pope, the rabbi and a story from the past

JERUSALEM -- In Pope John Paul II's first Christmas sermon, he shared his dream of...

March 15, 2000

The gospel according to Grisham

Something mysterious happened in the wilds of Brazil when the morally bankrupt lawyer Nate O'Reilly...

March 08, 2000

Bauer’s sojourn in e-mail hell

The walls and shelves in Gary Bauer's new office are bare, since he only left...

March 01, 2000

Just another Sunday at Saddleback

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The Saddleback Community Church bleachers were still filling up when the...

February 2000

February 23, 2000

White House religion — words and deeds

The more Richard Nixon talked about his faith the more his enemies complained about it.Critics...

February 16, 2000

He was God’s man, not God’s coach

On Friday afternoons, Tom Landry and his secretary used to work their way through hundreds...

February 09, 2000

Because Ideas Have Consequences

The powers that be at Hillsdale College applauded when Chuck Colson delivered his lecture that...

February 02, 2000

The Third World Anglicans act

For the worldwide Anglican Communion, July 29, 1974, was a day when old ties were...