So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic
In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
Brandon Mendelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy
Trooper, Slightly Imperfect, Pablo, The Dirty Italian, and I were forced to go to a “Transfer Orientation” a day after arriving at SUNY Po...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
This is a wild one. Artist Jon McNaughton of Utah has created a painting inspired by a vision he received during the 2008 elections. The painting...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
The folks at Conservapedia are re-translating the Bible to make it fit better with conservative ideology. Now there are no suggestions about what's to be done with all those inconvenient references to the poor.
Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.
AP | By ARIEL DAVID | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
ROME (AP)-- Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Time to dust off my Union Theological Seminary creds and weigh in on prayer.
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment
Roman Catholic Priests are the surprising voices of clarity and conviction in Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story. They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil.
Andy Wilson | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
The moral of my story is that, contrary to right-wing myth, it's not who's paying for the medical care that affects its quality.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
One of the greatest potholes today to people living in a relaxing condition in their day-to-day life, is the sense of wanting to compare ourselves to historical figures and "spiritual heros" from the past.
Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
In the coming months, America will become a minority Protestant nation for the first time since the Pilgrims. Non-believers now represent the third-highest group of Americans, after Catholics and Baptists.
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
Late last night, after hitting up a party where the only beverage being poured was vodka (a poison I avoid at all costs), I stopped for ...
Kamran Pasha | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
After lengthy research, I have become convinced that Jesus Christ himself was in all likelihood a vegetarian, and that vegetarianism was probably a central tenet of the early Christian community.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
Until the Palestinians eager to bury the Jewish state finally recognize the legitimate national aspirations of 5.7 million Jews, there may not be peace. But there will always be an Israel.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
Rob Warmowski | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
What would Jesus think of the pay-or-die private health insurance model the US shamefully supports -- alone among the 39 most industrialized nations on earth?
Donnie Fowler | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford announced two great epiphanies today: why he should not resign (gosh, we thought he was going to) and why his fellow South Carolina Republicans would not cooperate with him the last few years (no, it's not why you think).
James Arthur Ray | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment
Michael's life, when considered within the broader scope of highly creative people throughout history, was not really that unusual after all.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
A connection has been made. A connection clearly seen between a young generation here in the United States and a young generation of Iranians who have taken to the streets.
Derek Beres | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment
Faiz Ali Faiz and Craig Adams for Qawwali Gospel wove two seemingly disparate musical styles together to pay homage to the divine. Through them, Allah and Jesus met and danced.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.07.2009 | Comedy
Republican officials wasted no time in taking advantage of their new found status as a religion and began punishing infidels, giving each other impressive titles and handing out funny hats.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy
A recent post (about Jesus' nomination to the highest court in the land and his subsequent defaming by the Republicans) on the Daily Kos inspired sati...
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
No community today is so targeted by violent thugs for no reason other than sheer bigotry as are the Christians of Iraq.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy