This item came from Wall St. Journal’s “Best of the Web” feature - HERE. It’s short and to the point, and it needs no comment from me, so what’s not to love?
The ‘Crime’ of Being Christian
“Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims […]

For those who don’t like scrolling down eight or twelve screens deep to follow a comment thread, I’m posting Garry’s latest comment here. Garry had commented before on the post back here about the Mormon Church and the Nicene Creed, and asking me, in effect, why I’m such a meanie.
To which I replied that I’m […]

Mimi mentioned the confusion over Mormon theology back here, and so it seemed as good a reason as any to look into it a little more.
So here’s the Nicene Creed as we say it every week, as Christians have said since the 4th century to express what we believe. As this author notes:
The Nicene […]

This was some advice Fr. Elchaninov gave to a young person who wrote him a letter. I don’t know what the letter-writer said exactly, but I thought the advice was applicable to all of us:
You complain that your life is ‘rough and rugged’. But whatever we do is always like that. Where there are men, […]

Greg and I recently took in an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Union Station in Kansas City. I thought it would be interesting, and it was. I also thought that it would be carefully scripted to negate any Christian implications, and it was. Oh well.

I try not to take it personally that […]

There aren’t many news stories that start out with “The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm.” But that’s how this story starts out. Greg brought it to my attention as a sort of “News of the Weird” item. And that’s the way I started to read it, my ironic detachment started slipping […]

As I said back here, I tend to wonder who I would be in a parable. Tomorrow we will all hear the parable of the Prodigal Son as we count down the Sundays to Lent, and at some point I’m bound to wonder whether I’m more like the wandering son or his steadfast but envious […]

CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were “doomed,” as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. …
The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as […]

The most recent Christian Carnival is up. For those of us new to all this fancy bloggy terminology, a “carnival” is an assemblage of blog entries that all share a common theme. You submit a blog entry with the links and a sentence or two about it and they fit in as many as they […]

My morning readings get a little painful sometimes, but this morning I didn’t know in the end whether I was more sad or glad. I’ll break out the two separately, but the first readings turned out to be very hard.

My idea this year was that besides a New Testament reading and psalm, I would read […]