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Alvin Plantinga at Books and Culture: The real problem here, obviously, is Dawkins’ naturalism, his belief that there is no such person as God or anyone like God. That is because naturalism implies that evolution is unguided. So a broader conclusion is that one can’t rationally accept both naturalism and evolution; naturalism, therefore, is in…

I offer this post as a service to bloggers and readers of blogs. Bloggers love widgets. Widgets are the million little doohickies we like to put on our sidebars – search engine functions, mini-photo albums, instant messaging function,  etc. Here’s a list of the possible Typepad widgets. Blog readers, though, are not so fond of…

Me…a variation on this and this. Of course, with grilled cheese for certain other people…

Novelist Ron Hansen was ordained a permanent deacon last month: As a deacon, Hansen will work in campus ministry, mainly preaching and assisting with Masses and performing weddings in the Mission Church, said Jack Treacy, S.J., campus ministry director. But while Hansen is now a clergyman in the Catholic Church, he doesn’t plan on proclaiming…

The AP has a good article on the really difficult situation in Rome – historic churches in the center, many of them with virtually no regular parish life, and populations exploding in the suburbs, most of the demographic being poor, with not much money to build church buildings: It’s a situation that has been confounding…

Via Mere Comments, an article about a recent event at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in which 2 professors shared their experiences of adopting children: “Outside of Christ, we are all orphans,” he [Stinson] said, speaking in January at the Pendergraph women’s ministry event. “All people are born outside of the family of God and the…

Coming on May 19, from 6-9pm, in the Rose Bowl: The Rosary Bowl! Here’s the event’s website Here’s an article: And here’s Dave Hartline’s interview with Fr. Willie Raymond of Catholic Family Theater on the event: Father Willy Raymond CSC All the big stadiums in the Northeast, Midwest and West had rosary events in the…

…from a reader, that parents with two sick unborn children find solutions so that lives may be saved… Kristy Recovers: Revolution 21 reports on a young woman who is valiantly working to help her leukemia-struck sister get back on her feet. ON THIS EARTH, the Lord has no hands and no feet but for yours…

Really interesting article in NCR from John Allen, who is currently in Nigeria, researching his "Mega-Trends in Catholicism" book. He explains the position of Nigeria within Africa and in the Catholic global scene, then turns to the persistent Muslim-Christian tensions in the country and then recent efforts to bring peace, which seem to be bearing…

I have no idea how Michael managed to get a tiny pinhole poked in a beer can that he dug out of the closet, resulting in him standing in the middle of the hallway with beer spraying all over the floor and all over him, with Joseph just standing there looking at him wide-eyed and…
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