Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Via Media

A profile from the Independent Peter, 55, confirms to me that he was implying in his review that Christopher, 58, was closer to religious belief than he had ever accepted. " There is always, in the atheistical struggle with God, the fight against temptation. If it didn’t matter to you, why write a book about…

Over at Intentional Disciples, Sherry Weddell looks at recent discussions of Asian Christianity at the recent CTSA meeting. The Kingdom Without the King, notice. Like Phan, Chia said that the FABC’s emphasis is on mission in an overwhelmingly non-Christian context. He cited the example of the theme of the 1998 Synod for Asia, which was…

Mike Liccione has some suggestions for resources: But most people outside academia, or within it for that matter, don’t have time for a point-by-point rebuttal. If you’re an educated believer who moves in circles influenced by the new atheism, it’s best to have just a few quality resources on hand for dealing with them.

As my brain slowly returns (soon to be swept away again, so we’ll take what we can get), a bit of children’s book blogging. (As for the grown-ups – I have a novel I’m currently reading – a fall release Michael picked up at BEA, and once I finish that, I’ll start going through the…

So today we went to the Zoo – the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. For a couple of years there we were zoo fiends, going once a week during the summer, but I suppose MIchael’s birth and various travels last year slowed us down a bit – I guess we went once or twice, but I…

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a strong post on superstition among Christians, Catholics and Protestant alike.

From Inside the Vatican, a thorough report on the Bush-Benedict meeting, along with some of Pope Benedict’s other activities of the day, reflecting the Big Picture: So Benedict left a meeting with Bush to give a speech to North African bishops’ focused on working in collaboration with local Muslims, and to introduce two new, key…

Medjugorje pilgrims hurt A bus carrying mostly southeastern Wisconsin Catholics to a shrine in southern Bosnia veered to avoid a jackknifed truck and plunged at least 40 feet into a ravine outside Sarajevo on Monday, injuring 27 of the 34 passengers. Three of the passengers were reported in critical condition, including Frank "Andy" Meier of…

In one convenient spot for all your clips and commentary.

Many commenters have pulled what they think are the emblematic Sopranos quotes – for me it was always the title of this post, uttered by at least one character at every funeral (after the envelopes) and often after every tragedy. Shrug. There’s lots of interesting commentary out there about the show, including in our own…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners