The Outstanding Leadership Award at the LCWR’s last annual assembly without the direct supervision of Vatican overseer Archbishop J. Peter Sartain was presented to Sister Elizabeth Johnson, the…
Calvary posits that faith is mostly a fear of death, but in reality, like Gleeson’s performance, faith is a living, changing, malleable thing. His Father James helps us understand why people still need religion.
The Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, which last year featured former President George W. Bush at its annual banquet to help raise funds for its mission to persuade Jews that Jesus is the messiah…
In an August 4 press release, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, issued a call for evangelical Christians to become more assertive in Kentucky’s 2014 U.S…
Woody Allen’s new movie, Magic in the Moonlight, is loosely based on a story that’s almost too good to be true: Harry Houdini, master magician, for many years used his celebrity to debunk…
Ed Kilgore takes issue with Robert Draper’s New York Times Magazine piece exploring whether the “libertarian moment” has arrived for the Republican Party because it ignores the role the Christian…
Novelist, essayist and biographer Mary Gordon takes on Pope Francis’ treatment of American nuns, and by extension his and the Catholic Church’s attitudes toward women as a whole, in an essay in the…
For someone who propagates the importance of evidence, Sam Harris often ignores his own counsel. Last week the bestselling atheist author posted a podcast (with transcript) titled: “Why Don’t I…
Last week in a blog post here, I suggested that those of us disheartened by the Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College verdicts protest by getting ordained in the universal-ordination church of their choice…