Politics
Why I Love Obama
(...But I Won't Vote for Him.) 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 >
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 >
Faith
Repeat the Sounding Joy
Repetitive prayer draws me into the Church stretching across time and space, each seemingly identical facet casting light onto a different place in my heart. READ MORE >
Issues
A Question of Empathy
How science is rehsaping the abortion debate 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 >
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
Seeing Others
Why are we so hesitant to respect the soul of the person in front of us? READ MORE >
Music
Larry Norman’s Street Fighting Gospel
Larry Norman passed away last February. He's been called the Father of Christian Rock, a burden he refused to carry. “I think the blacks invented it about 200 years ago." READ MORE >
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 >
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 >
