On Thursday, Xy and I went on down to Spanish Plaza, caught the tail end of Dennis Quaid and the Sharks and watched The Big…
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Category: Theology
Jerry Falwell’s passing today gives me pause to reflect. Twenty-odd years ago I was fascinated by Falwell. I got on his mailing list and joined…
Xy and I did something today that we’ve never done together before: We went to church. Oh sure, we’ve gone into church buildings together. We…
I’m not the praying type, but all the same I thought I’d pass on this prayer, written by Sr. Loretta McCarthy, SBS. Spirit of the…
Viriler. That’s the word I used as the first play of our first game of Scrabble last night. (It was four-way Scrabble: Xy vs. me…
Last night we ate dinner in a cave. We woke up this morning in the DeVille Motel in Waynesville, Missouri, perhaps slightly hungover from the…
We’ve just about fleshed out the itinerary for our upcoming trip, and I realize now that we’ll be at my parents’ house on Sunday morning.…
Last week’s episode of This American Life was the most thought-provoking I’ve ever heard, on a subject of great interest to me: religion. And it’s…
I keep forgetting to mention that, after two and a half years of work, the BibleDudes website was officially launched last month, and I’m just…
Alas, the new pope is a conservative German guy. The good news is he may not be around long.
I was reading the current issue of the Fifth Estate, and I came across a quotation of a provocative a passage from the same magazine…
I’ve always been under the impression that Lent lasted exactly 40 days. Looking at the calendar the other day, I noticed the count from Ash…
SFGate has an interview with Rik Myslewski, and it’s not about MacAddict — it’s about his own personal brand of atheism.
So yesterday a homeless man from Austin had his case against the state of Texas heard before the Supreme Court, and yet none of my…
The LA Times has an interesting interview with Julia Sweeney of SNL fame about her one-woman show, “Letting Go of God.”
Xy and I were listening to iTunes over our stereo, and we had it cranked loud so we could hear it in the next room.…
Dr. Michael Newdow is back with a vengeance. He’s just filed another suit against the “under God” phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance — this…
I’m astonished to read a Newsweek poll that says 79% of Americans believe in the miracle of the virgin birth. That means you get five…