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[UPDATED: I was in a lhurry to say something and didn't have much time. So I ended up being rather trite. This trubute is a bit less embarrassing.]
You can’t be a forty-something (ex-)Evangelical Christian and not have heard of Larry Norman, but if you haven’t, read this or this.
These articles give you some taste of [...]

When I first emtered RCIA, I was fascinated, amused and appalled at the anual Catholic cry, “It’s Lent. Time for a Bible study group.” When you come from a sola scriptura. very conservative background, Bible study is something you do before you even understand the words. A friend of mine used to “teach” the Baptist [...]

Scot McKnight’s new book The Real Mary is intriguing and ultimately frustrating read, one I highly recommend. McKnight attempts in this book to delineate only what can be known from Scripture regarding Mary, and to examine the further claims of the Catholic tradition regarding her in the most charitable light he can muster. And he [...]

North Carolina is just a little colder and darker today — well, so is everywhere. Cartoonist Doug Marlette has died in an automobile crash.
If you don’t know Marlette’s strip Kudzu, please go see it now. I don’t always agree with Rev. Will B. Dunn, but he’s a closer exemplar of the Southern preachers I’ve [...]

Our homily this past weekend was fascinating, but uncomfortable. Father pointed out that heaven will be a kind of eternal liturgy.
“That’s going to be hard on those of you for whom an hour is now too long to pray,” he said. Ow! I was wondering whether my pastor might have been inspired by the [...]

Jerry Falwell died in his office today, according to the Liberty University press release.
He founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church, Liberty University, and the Moral Majority Coalition, and in so doing, changed the term “Fundamentalist” from a technical term for a school of Protestant thought to one of the most misused buzzwords of modern journalism.
God [...]

It still costs something to follow the will of God fully.
There is so much talk among US Catholics about Christian unity, and how the important thing is that we all worship the same Jesus. It may be shocking to such people to realize that some Protestant groups still deny the Christian nature of Catholicism, and [...]

At Pascha Polyglotta you can read and hear the Easter greeting, “Christ is risen; indeed, he is risen!” in 250 languages. Furthermore, the site has this accessibility statement:
This site uses only standard technologies. It needs no particular navigator, frames, script, or cookie.
You can navigate using only a keyboard. Special measures have also been taken to [...]

The creator of “B.C.” and “The Wizard of Id,” Johnny Hart died on Holy Saturday. He was 76.
Hart was a “born-again Christian,” who sometimes upset people by inserting Christian and Biblical themes into his strips. I didn’t always like the way he viewed relations between the sexes, but I always knew his strips would [...]

In 12-step groups, there’s a kind of philosophical riddle:
Q: What do you get when you sober up a horse thief?
A: A sober horse thief!
A Catholic precept that puts a different slant on that is that “grace follows nature.” God takes us as we are, and our lives as a new creation, even when they are [...]