The religious world is buzzing this week with the unusual results of the Episcopal Church's latest General Convention. That venerable institution has voted, among other things, to sanctify same-sex marriages, forbid discrimination in parish employment against transgendered clergy and other staff, apologize to the American Indians for introducing them to Christianity, and permit liturgical funerals for pets. To conventional Christians, these measures appear to indicate that the Episcopal Church has gone mad. I disagree completely. When I was young, the Episcopal Church was more than a pillar ...
A reader has registered surprise that I am not an atheist. I am surprised that he’s surprised. Theism, with its vision of an orderly universe and a moral creature created in God’s image, makes ...
The Blackwater affair has all the clichéd elements of Hollywood conspiracy "thrillers": an atrocity cover-up, a right-wing Christian villain at the helm of a powerful corporation, ...
Last month marked the fourth anniversary of what must be seen as the most exciting event in the Catholic Church in this writer's lifetime: the election of Joseph Cardinal ...
In 1914, on the very eve of the Great War, G.K. Chesterton published his humorous novel The Flying Inn. The story concerned a Turkish plot to invade England, all with the ...
As Christians around the world wait by the tomb, reenacting the vigil of the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, we do our best to replicate their grief, and gratitude, and hope. ...
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