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• "In Her Body and Her Theology, Bolz-Weber Represents a New, Muscular Form of...

  

  The title of the piece aside, I'm not finding much here to be problematic: Nadia Bolz-Weber bounds into the University United Methodist Church sanctuary like a... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 SOCIETY

• "Why Did He Have to Ruin a Perfectly Good Talk with This Jesus Nonsense?"

  

  A reader sent me an email link to this piece over at Christianity Today by Fox News' resident liberal Kirsten Powers.  She has always intrigued me in that I... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Is Hope a Gamble? Magical Thinking?

  

  I've confessed to readers before that I'm a bit of a worry wart.  Actually, more than a bit.  I blame my mother (facetiously of course) who is a professional... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 SOCIETY

• How Fast is Fast?

  

  Mach 6 is seriously fast and that's the speed the SR-72 is expected to fly: Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works has finally unveiled the long-awaited successor... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Futility: Attempting to Evade Him Who Pursues Relentlessly

  

  Father Mike's reflection today is rich, so rich: People go to great lengths in order to experience salvation; and people also go to great lengths, attempting... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Hopeful Sign in Fight Againt Obama's Birth Control Mandate

  

  Julian Hattem over at TheHill: A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Joe Singing About Joe

  Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen Joe Biden, everyone's favorite crazy uncle, has shared his infinite wisdom on the Obamacare rollout problems. It seem h... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 SOCIETY

• "Grow the Hell Up"

  

  Mark Shea's words and much more in reaction to Obama's latest shenanigans: If it’s not Sebellius brazenly looking down her now ten foot long Pinocchio nose and... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 SOCIETY

• "What Concerns Me is the Rapidly Spreading Campaign Strategy of Using...

  

  Dr. Jeff Mirus, over at CatholicCulture.org, with relevant words not only for my state's gubernatorial race but for the political culture at large: One of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 SOCIETY

• "All Saints Day is Nothing Less Than a Dare"

  

  Deacon Greg's homily for All Saints Day is a must read: This gospel, the Beatitudes, may be one of the most familiar in all of scripture. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 SOCIETY

• Is This Not Tyranny? If Not, Why in Hell Not?

  

  From CNN no less: White House officials have pressured insurance industry executives to keep quiet amid mounting criticism over Obamacare's rollout, insurance... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Are Ghosts Real?

  

  No better time of the year than now to put up a post about ghosts and whether or not they really exist. The folks at U.S. Catholic are asking if Catholics... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "Just Shop Around"

  

  President Obama clearly gives not two sh*ts about the American people: Now, if you had one of these substandard plans before the Affordable Care Act became... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Pope Francis: Marriage Isn’t Always Easy, “but It is So Beautiful”

  

  Somehow, someway, for society's sake, this message, delivered by Pope Francis this past weekend during the Pontifical Council for the Family, must resonate... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 SOCIETY

• On Track

  

  There'll be lots of time in the coming days to pour over Kathleen Sebelius testimony today before a congressional committee but I thought it might be good to... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "... Being Raised in the Tradition of Loving Baseball is Similar to Being...

  

  Susanna Spencer is talking baseball... and liturgy... in the same breath: I have loved baseball as long as I have been conscious of it. It was a love passed dow... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Work as Worship

  

  This will be hard for many to swallow... and I must confess that I'd be one of them today: Has man’s God-given vocation been entirely lost sight of?Look around... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 SOCIETY

• NBC News' Joe Wilson Moment

  

  In summary, what follows is nothing more than a huge "You Lie!" to this President: President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 SOCIETY

• "It Seems Fitting, Doesn't It, That an Improbable Voice in the Darkness Reached...

  

  Matt Archbold has a fascinating post up, one we could probably tag as yet another "did you know" piece: It was Christmas Eve night in 1906. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 SOCIETY

• “Version 2.0 of the Mandate is Just as Bad as Version 1.0”

  

  We need to see more of this sort of thing... much, much more: EWTN Global Catholic Network has been joined by the state of Alabama in a new lawsuit against the... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 SOCIETY