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May 2010

May 31, 2010

‘Lost’ in the eternal lite

When describing the mysterious concept called purgatory, the Catechism of the Catholic Church starts with...

May 24, 2010

Island of ‘Lost’ souls

It's getting harder to visit office water coolers without hearing the whispers of the "Lost"...

May 17, 2010

Trying to focus on the future

As strange as it may sound, the head of Focus on the Family is trying...

May 10, 2010

Voices of unbelievers, in pulpits

On Sunday mornings, you will find him leading hymns in one of the independent Church...

May 03, 2010

Sermons by Billy and Obama

Both men faced rows of loved ones still wrapped in grief after shocking tragedies. Both...

April 2010

April 26, 2010

State of the online Godbeat 2010

For journalists who care about life on the Godbeat, the list of the dead and...

April 19, 2010

State of the Godbeat 2010

This was not your typical New York Times headline: "For Catholics, a Door to Absolution...

April 12, 2010

God, movies and cancer

Hollywood bean counters have started calling them "God films." The typical faith-based indie has a...

April 05, 2010

Quest for the common Easter

Motorists across America saw a strange sight this past Sunday morning if they stopped at...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Hitchens, Hitchens and God, too

When Peter Hitchens was eight years old, and his older brother Christopher was 11, their...

March 22, 2010

An archbishop faces ghost of JFK

In the beginning, there was candidate John F. Kennedy, who told an assembly of Protestant...

March 15, 2010

Now that’s a tough Lent

It was a decade ago during Lent that author Lauren Winner was visited by an...

March 08, 2010

A spiritual year at the multiplex

In one of Hinduism's most sacred poems, the lord and sustainer of the universe chooses...

March 01, 2010

Young Catholics wrestle with truth

In one of the defining works of his historic papacy, Pope John Paul II argued...

February 2010

February 22, 2010

Fasting, for evangelical Protestants?

Elmer Towns had a big problem three decades ago after he moved to Lynchburg, Va.,...

February 15, 2010

Breakfast prayer wars

The way President Barack Obama sees things, Americans should be able to find unity in...

February 08, 2010

Mama says, ‘Go to church’

Here's a rather predictable news flash: American mothers want the fathers of their children to...

February 01, 2010

B16 says, ‘Thou shalt blog’

When Eunice Kennedy Shriver died, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley candidly reminded his Archdiocese of Boston...

January 2010

January 25, 2010

The Book of Denzel

The first time Denzel Washington read the "Training Day" script, he had an intensely personal...

January 18, 2010

How Evangelicals Talk 101

There she goes again. According to a top strategist in the presidential campaign of Sen....

January 11, 2010

The holy terror of religion news

Journalists at the Newhouse News Service bureau in Washington, D.C., learned to appreciate the sound...

January 04, 2010

Obama’s year: Cairo top story?

President Barack Obama deserved the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee, because...

December 2009

December 28, 2009

Xmas is fake, so deal with it

As the Christmas pageant dress rehearsal rolled to its bold finale, reporter Hank Stuever found...

December 21, 2009

Whatever happened to Advent?

The Rev. Timothy Paul Jones kept hearing one thing when -- four weeks before Christmas...

December 14, 2009

The soul in Dave Brubeck’s jazz

Any jazz fan who has been paying attention at all during the past half century...

December 07, 2009

God and Caesar, 2009

There is nothing new about Christians deciding that, when political push comes to legal shove,...

November 2009

November 30, 2009

Faith on the Blind Side

In the beginning there was "Big Tony" Henderson, whose dying mother urged him to pull...

November 23, 2009

Palin’s pastor meets the press

The Sunday service had just ended and the Rev. Larry Kroon couldn't believe what he...

November 16, 2009

Quiet Lutheran worship wars

If members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have heard it once, they've heard their national...

November 09, 2009

Archbishop kicks Gray Lady

Maureen Dowd of the New York Times has long enjoyed flaunting her Catholic schoolgirl pedigree...