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December 2010

December 27, 2010

2010 was that kind of year in religion

President Barack Obama did something on Sept. 19th that caught many in the national press...

December 20, 2010

Hallelujah, saith the masses

As millions of YouTube viewers know, the "Hallelujah Chorus" is even hotter than usual this...

December 13, 2010

Celebrate Christmas — gasp! — in Christmas?

Father Dino Bottino didn't expect to spark a firestorm several years ago when he delivered...

December 06, 2010

Return of (part of) the chaplaincy story

Editor's note: There was no "On Religion" column this past week due to the death...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

A social media Reformation?

As every avid Twitter user knows, there are only 140 characters in a "tweet" and...

November 22, 2010

John Lennon, ‘spiritual,’ not ‘religious’

Few images of John Lennon are as iconic as that of the ex-Beatle playing a...

November 15, 2010

Rome ponders iMissal app

When it comes to liturgical details, the Vatican has clear guidelines about sacred objects that...

November 07, 2010

Congregating with Jon Stewart Leibowitz

In the beginning, there was the multimedia superstar Glenn Beck summoning his Tea Party congregation...

November 01, 2010

Politics, Baylor, The NoZe & Aqua Buddha

If Texas Baptists had a patron saint, the Rev. George W. Truett would almost certainly...

October 2010

October 25, 2010

Don’t ask, don’t tell the chaplains

The setting: The office of a priest who serves as a military chaplain. The time:...

October 18, 2010

God hates most sinners, saith Phelps

The words of the fifth Psalm are not for the faint of heart. "Thou art...

October 11, 2010

Love, hate, apathy, faith

One of the most important facts to grasp about the small, but growing, flock of...

October 04, 2010

A Catholic Colbert report

For Catholics raised during the head-spinning days after Vatican II, few things inspire flashbacks to...

September 2010

September 27, 2010

St. Peter in Westminster Abbey

During his long exile in Normandy, the Saxon prince who would become known as Edward...

September 20, 2010

Rights and wrongs of Pastor Terry Jones

The deaths of the 10 International Assistance Mission medical workers inspired headlines that were both...

September 13, 2010

Synagogue for Jewish seekers

For centuries, Jews have watched their rabbis show reverence to God during Rosh Hashanah and...

September 06, 2010

Alveda King’s old dream

Fox News star Glenn Beck staged the show at the Lincoln Memorial, and then fired...

August 2010

August 30, 2010

Obama and Allah, past and present

In the spring of 2007, candidate Barack Hussein Obama met with a New York Times...

August 23, 2010

Patricia Neal and her angels

After her destructive affairs with married men, after the death of her first child, after...

August 16, 2010

Hail Marys for Hitch

One of the last things Thomas Peters does each day is face the Cross of...

August 09, 2010

Fix your ugly Catholic church?

The sanctuary walls are, as a rule, made of flat wood, concrete and glass wrapped...

August 02, 2010

A Catholicism fit for journalists?

Editor's note: This past week, tmatt took a vacation to a site with no telephone...

July 2010

July 26, 2010

Shocking words for Presbyterians

Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer...

July 19, 2010

Symbols in the Texas hills

KERRVILLE, Texas -- The bracelet is both simple and a bit strange, since it consists...

July 12, 2010

When did Baptists stop making news?

The Southern Baptist Convention has passed scores of blunt resolutions in recent decades urging America's...

July 05, 2010

Catholic dad’s fight against abuse

It wasn't hard to connect the dots when, after decades of lurid news about the...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

Law, faith and the good death

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- As the end of his life drew near, Pope Pius XII began...

June 21, 2010

SBC wrestles with corporate sin

Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about...

June 14, 2010

John Wooden, a faithful man

As the decades passed, the coach got used to hearing people call him a hero,...

June 07, 2010

An Orthodox question for 2010

The first Orthodox missionaries to reach Alaska traveled with the early Russian explorers and, in...