Mom’s Best Gift
Ginny Kubitz Moyer, a fine writer and blogger over at Random Acts of Momness, asked me to write about “The best gift my mom gave to me” for her outfit…
A Best Friend to the Very End
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: From the Daily Treat an animal blog at Discovery: The dog of slain Petty Officer Jon Tumilson refused to leave his side…
Dating God Meets Googling God
Br. Dan Horan was in town and asked if I had time to be on his podcast, so I jumped at the chance! He uncovered much in the “How I…
No Prayer on 9-11?
The Gothamist has a doozy. For the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, there will be no representation of religion. It seems Mayor Bloomberg got sued by a group of atheists…
Will There Be Faith?
I’m giving you my permission to leave this blog today and to go and buy Thomas Groome’s new book on building a more modern religious education ministry. Will There Be…
How I Met My Ministry: The Early Years
Kids, this is a story that we’ll tell for the next few weeks. It’s a story of how I met my ministry. Having no children of my own and taking…
This 61 Has No *
In this age of sports where baseball’s home run record is now seriously debatable, I’ve come to appreciate the efforts of Yankee Roger Maris’ 61 Home Runs in 1961. It…
Tear Down This Wall
My colleague, Julianne Wallace, reminded me that yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. When I was in college the wall fell and it was…
Justin Bieber and the Prosperity Gospel and Somalia
Justin Bieber took the stage after winning a teen choice award in LA and shouted, “Jesus loves every one of you.” Interesting. He used a very specific Christian reference rather…
If You Haven’t Read Googling God (the book) yet…
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