John asked a question in response to my anteater ditty: “Ah David, is there anything that doesn’t draw you closer to God? Collapsing buildings, anteaters, the Red Sox?” Thinker gave a great answer. Here it is in part: One of my favorite holy guys is a Francisan priest who said – Either everything created is…

When the bridge went down on Wednesday night, the fears for massive loss of life were great. I talked to a reporter friend on the scene and she said that the sense was it might be pretty bad. Now comes news that the loss of life is likely be far lower than expected: As many…

From Doug about my post on the idiocy of the Hucka-back controversy: I don’t think this reflects Christians, Christianity or Christ. It reflects what happens when the Church becomes a tribe with political aspirations. But I agree with this: political Christianity is abominable evangelism. Jesus’ followers were doubters, traitors, egoists and fishy. We still are,…

The juvenile exchange between the very evangelical Mike Huckabee and the very Catholic Sam Brownback continues. The New York Times political blog captures the whole ridiculous situation here. In hugely condensed form, it began with a pastor – not affiliated with the Huckabee campaign – sending around an email saying Huckabee deserved support because he…

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