Faith
What’s Behind the New Interest in Confession?
Is the present increase in the popularity of the confession of sins a step toward a realistic religiosity, or is it the popularity of the penitential rite of the American Church of Christ without Christ? READ MORE >
Music
The Weakerthans’ Liturgy of the Other Hours
Culture
Beauty Goes Underground
Would St. Augustine ever have experienced his conversion sitting in a pew being subjected to an off-key rendering of “On Eagle’s Wings”? READ MORE >
Seeing Others
Why are we so hesitant to respect the soul of the person in front of us? READ MORE >
Faith
Doubting Doubting Thomas
St. Thomas’s evangelizing journeys after the Pentecost, culminating in his brutal death, tell a quite different story from the role he has been cast in the Christian script. READ MORE >
Life
Visiting with Jesus in Prison
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative descends into unhappy and often hellish places in obedience to the Christ who was himself obedient to the point of death. READ MORE >
Faith
Bart’s Problem
In his new book, God’s Problem, Bart Ehrman tries to prove that the God of the Bible doesn't answer the question of why we suffer, but his argument falls flat. In the end, what Ehrman and other “new atheists” forget is that a world without God is not a world without evil or innocent suffering. It’s simply a world of suffering without hope. READ MORE >
Politics
Why I Love Obama
(...But I Won't Vote for Him.) READ MORE >
Issues
A Question of Empathy
How science is rehsaping the abortion debate READ MORE >
Faith
Benedict XVI: The Pope of Hope
For Benedict, Christ’s promise of his second coming and the final judgment is a pledge that evil and injustice will not have the last word in human history. READ MORE >
Music
Radiohead: Together in the Alone
Through their music, Radiohead communes with everyone who's ever been tempted to despair in a world where God seems absent READ MORE >
All That Dark
Some say that No Country for Old Men makes evil look too powerful and goodness too puny. But that’s the way the world looks most of the time. READ MORE >
