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“What is the situation with regard to cheating on this campus,” I asked some of my undergraduate students in class this morning.  I was trying to decide how to handle a makeup test and find that students are surprisingly willing to give genuine answers to hard questions if you just ask. The first response was…

“Have I told you yet that I’m not sure if I’m a Christian?” writes Andrea in the comments on my post about my first Lent. “I vacillate and ponder and struggle every day with my spirituality.” Sharing that she is a convert to Catholicism who attends mass regularly she continues, “I change my beliefs like…

Lent is one of those Christian traditions that everyone seems to know about, Christian or not. I remember encountering Lent in my school days through the kids who’d show up with dirt on their heads complaining that they couldn’t eat chocolate or drink soda until Easter. Like so many Christian traditions, it made little sense…

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joan Ball and I’m the newest blogger on the Christianity channel at Beliefnet. As I sit here on my living room couch considering the best way to kick off this new adventure, a single question is running in a repetitive loop in my head, haunting me to…
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