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They go to church in Mississippi

February 19th, 2010 ~ La Vida Iglesia

Via the Orthodox convert list (*), a Gallup poll that studied how much people in different states attend church regularly — HERE. Mississippi was at the top with 63% weekly church-goers; Vermont at the bottom with 23%.
Not a lot of surprises there. Just as you might think, southerners went to church the most, except for […]

Parents rights and Christianity

September 8th, 2009 ~ Current events, La Vida Iglesia

I understand the state’s insistence that Christianity not be given preference. But that doesn’t help me make my way smoothly through these two cases, documented in a Wall St. Journal piece entitled “Christian Girls, Interrupted”:
Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it.
One of these courts […]

Dublin: Sights and scandal

May 30th, 2009 ~ La Vida Iglesia

Our little onboard intro to Dublin says: Intimate and friendly, compact, relaxed and easy to discover on foot, Dublin is a city full of surprises. It almost looks like a small town with gorgeous architecture left there for safekeeping.
And so it is, with winding streets full of little shops, street performers and lots and lots […]

SoulWow dot com

April 2nd, 2009 ~ La Vida Iglesia, Pop goes the culture

Gotta give the Catholics a little credit. They know a marketing opportunity when they see one. Are you getting this, camera guy?

I’d kind of worry about the kind of penitents you’d get from this pitch, though. Wouldn’t they be a bit likely to talk real fast and gesture around? Plus, they’d be looking for the […]

Christmas carols to listen to after Christmas

December 26th, 2008 ~ La Vida Iglesia

This is a re-run of the post I ran last year. But I’m still recovering from Christmas dinner. Besides, it had pretty music to listen to, so what’s not to love?

It’s two days after Christmas now, and the all-Christmas-all-the-time radio stations have all gone back to playing the usual dreck. Have you ever noticed that […]

England swings like a censor do

December 21st, 2008 ~ La Vida Iglesia

A church that can no longer hold the 4,000-plus worshippers? Hundreds lined up for the chance to hear a sermon? What’s this, some Bible belt revival? Not unless the Bible belt extends over the Atlantic Ocean*.
Long considered an aggressively secular city, London has quietly become one of Britain’s most Christian areas, going from the least […]

Rain, rain, go away.
Because we need a place to pray.

September 12th, 2008 ~ Just a slice of heaven, La Vida Iglesia

I shouldn’t complain about what we’ve been getting of the hurricane weather. Goodness knows, it’s wreaking havoc further south. Up here in Missouri, all we have to put up with is rain and rain and rain. And rain.
This’ll make my priest cranky. Father Elias goes out to the construction site to oversee the building of […]

NYT news flash: There are religious people out there!

September 8th, 2008 ~ Political circus, La Vida Iglesia

The New York Times decided to go on one of its occasional forays into the strange world of alien creatures and talked to (ick) religious people. The occasion for this was to do a tremulous read on whether these strange life-forms are reacting positively to Sarah Palin, but I don’t cite the piece to argue […]

Being “taken care of” by Muslims

July 13th, 2008 ~ La Vida Iglesia

This article (via Orthodox Today) is an interview with a French filmmaker about a documentary he made on the plight of Christians living in the Middle East.
There is much in the article to give us pause (”… They used priests, monks and nuns as human shields. They behaved like barbarians. But nobody reported the […]

Finding the Landlord but not Lewis

February 18th, 2008 ~ Books, La Vida Iglesia

I tried to make my way through “The Pilgrim’s Regress” again, armed with “Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C. S. Lewis’ Pilgrim’s Regress.” I thought it would help me unravel all the esoteric allegories. I’d love to report that it did, but … nope. I still only partly understand who Mr. Sensible and the […]


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