In America there are two career fields that have a disproportionate number of agnostics and atheists: scientists and stand-up comedians.
Is the Catholic 'New Evangelization' a laughing matter?
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Southern Baptists on the downhill statistical slide?
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Spotting the sacred ghost in the era of iWeddings
First of all, let me stress that I know that there are plenty of weddings that are completely secular or, well, they should have been completely secular. You know what I mean?
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Tintin and the Catholic Charismatics
The story so far … Intrepid reporter Tintin, accompanied by his faithful fox terrier Snowy, has travel to Brazil to report on the preparations for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day celebrations in July. Upon his arrival Tintin finds the natives have abandoned their base communities and liberation theology for Catholic Pentecostalism. Who is behind this tragedy? Soviets, American gangsters, Jews? Can our hero rescue the church from the clutches of charismatics in Brazil?
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Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.
You’ll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this Republican candidate and/or office-holder believes!
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Pod people: 'Mass exodus' from the Boy Scouts?
One of the wonderful things about writing is the ability to type something, decide it’s not precisely exactly what you wanted to say, delete it and start over.
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Ghosts in interview with Navy SEAL sniper's widow
This past weekend, The Dallas Morning News ran an in-depth story on Taya Kyle, widow of slain Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
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At the Washington Post, even local abortion crime isn't newsworthy
On May 25, I tweeted out the image at the top of this post with the note “WaPo story about 12 of 16 surgical abortion clinics in MD having a variety of failures gets this headline?”
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Why did a conservative Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)
Let’s say that there is a Republican president in office right now, one with ties to a somewhat doctrinaire form of Christianity.
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