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- Nature, Our Mother
- Where has all the darkness gone?
- The Legend of Sta. Procrastinata
- Be A Queen: Own Your Power And Glory
- Mother's Day Poem
- Balanced Empowerment
- Embracing Age
- Go Light-Footed Through Life
- My Mother the Queen
- Loving Affirmation of My Self
- Decide to Take Charge
- Mirror, Mirror
- Benefits of Age
- Coming Home to Our Self
- A Self-Meditation
- Autumn Equinox Ushers in the Season Of Ripe Maturity
- Hibernating in Winter
- Hard Work of Heart Work
- A Hymn To Venus
- Time to Care for Ourselves
- Treading the Turbulent Midlife Waters – PART 1
- Take Charge
- Lost and Found
- Peaches and Cream – Part 1
- Broken Heart Work
- A Meditation on My Self
- Who Has Lived Well?
- Stop Being Your Biggest Hater
- Living Full--Living True: The Authentic Life (Part 1)
- How to Avoid a Midlife Crisis - Part 2
- Earth Speaks to Those Who Listen
- The Empowered Woman
- Creating a Sacred Space in your Castle
- Daily Rituals for Self-Empowerment
- Make Way for Ducklings
- Looking Back on Cornerstone: Phyllis Tickle's Emergence
- Breaking News! Boy with Cancer Gets Chemo!
- Praying the Bible - Praying with Jesus
- Praying the Bible - A Working Definition
- Ending Christian Euphemisms: "Unbiblical"
- What Is Practical Theology? Part Three
- My Video Response to Phillip Clayton
- Liveblogging Transforming Theology - Day 2
- My (Anti-) Ordination Sermon
- Calling Kevin DeYoung to Account [UPDATED]
- Original Sin: Augustine's Addendum
- The Sermon on the Mount Is an Ideology?
- Is Virtual Community True Community?
- Original Sin: Paul, Romans 5, and the Heart of the Issue
- Same Sex Marriage Blogalogue: Prolegomena 1 - This Is Not About Me
- Comment of the Day 2
- The All New TonyJ.net
- "Freedom and Catholicism"
- BREAKING: Nuns investigate Vatican!
- Calvin at 500, Calvinism 2.0
- Priest pushback on Pope letter?
- Tiller's killing: Necessary...but unlawful?
- Was Pius XII a saint? More Jewish-Catholic tensions
- Joy and hopes...
- Church "honoring" Bill Richardson?
- Confession: My Cross of Palms
- BREAKING: Judge Noonan to deliver Notre Dame Laetare address
- Do you believe in global warming?
- Rush Limbaugh as Saint Francis?
- Twittering the Passion
- Move to oust Notre Dame's president
- Obama at Georgetown blasts a culture of "instant gratification"
- The Archbishop regrets...
- Pope's letter on SSPX excommunications: The official text
- "Ressourcement" or "Aggiornamento"? A final note on condoms
- And back to the sublime...If you like Peeps
- A priesthood returning to its roots?
- The turtle [tortoise] stays in Africa
- Thoughts for this Friday in Lent:
- Three saints of the day: Climacus, Rahner, Bowman
- Win some, lose some: Lindsay Lohan, born Catholic, to become Jewish
- The Catholic case for "another" US-led invasion...
- The GOP's Catholic freefall
- Tim Russert: Passing of a man...End of an era?
- Russert farewell: Public man, private funeral
- Batman and Lambeth?
- Welcome to "Pontifications"
- You say galero, I say saturno...
- Everyone's selling something...
- "Angels OR Demons?" No ecstasy for Ron Howard or Dan Brown
- Catholics skew liberal--even the churchgoers
- Faith as Stress-buster? See, Lent is good for you!
- Conservatives are a crackup!
- Bishop D'Arcy to boycott Obama at Notre Dame
- Benedict in Cameroon, Day 1: Pope Leo?
- Now here's a real stimulus package...
- Obama as a Nazi? Bill Donohue goes there...
- He got a turtle!
- Notre Dame outrage update: Cardinal George, Archbp Quinn, et al
- Egan leaving? "The piano is still here..."
- Cross Purposes
- Cardinal George on Bishop Williamson: "Deeply offensive"
- Michael Dubruiel, RIP
- Pope Benedict criticizes the criticizers
- Silence and the SSPX: Where are the Catholic voices?
- "Recant?" Text of the Vatican statement on SSPX
- Bishops meet: Leadership from a flock of shepherds
- Benedict XVI and Barack Obama
- Farrah Fawcett, RIP
- George Tiller: Portrait of a...serial killer?
- The Three-Minute Confirmation Stick
- Tiller killing: Suspect may have right-wing ties
- U.S. Catholics: Let Obama speak (and keep abortion legal)
- Women as Swiss Guards? They could make this look good...
- Obama's new church: St. Elsewhere's?
- Radicalizing pro-lifers: The line from "Roe" to Randall Terry
- "Hell-raiser in a collar"
- Historian's verdict: Catholic justices can't be trusted
- Michael Jackson's faith
- Dom DeLuise, RIP
- Abortion doc killed in church; pro-lifers decry shooting
- Abortion rights support falling, gun rights support rising
- Wicca Smackdown: Starhawk calls out the Pope!
- Bill Donohue (hearts) Sonia Sotomayor
- Saint Newt's conversion: "Part of me is inherently medieval."
- Text of Obama's Notre Dame speech
- Text of Archbishop Quinn letter to Obama
- ND reax: "Is it possible for us then to join hands in common effort?"
- Is Sonia Sotomayor Catholic? UPDATE: Yes
- Obama names Vatican ambassador: Miguel H. Diaz
- Obama=Hitler? A debate rages...
- Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009
- Chief Rabbi: Vatican must examine its conscience
- The "myth" of holiday suicide rates
- Secret Agent Man, RIP
- Should we invade Canada?
- Gaza Strip=Concentration Camp?
- Israel in Gaza: "The Boss has lost it."
- Top Ten religion blogs on Blogs.com: Check 'em out...
- Catholics and Politics: What now?
- Koncelebration 4 Kids!
- Rescuing the housing market AND the souls of stock traders
- What is the point of interfaith dialogue?
- "Doubts" grow on Merz NRB op-ed
- 106-year-old nun for Obama!
- 50 Bishops advocate "single-issue" voting
- "Battle of the Bishops," UPDATE
- An Archbishop for Obama!
- Inside Obama's God Ops
- Sorry, no "Father" Brad Pitt. How about Philip Seymour Hoffman?
- "Otherizing" Obama: Strange face welcome in a crisis?
- Saintly Sex: Thank God!
- Paul Newman: From "The Silver Chalice" to "Dashboard Jesus"
- Sarah Palin: Religionless Christian?
- Were Adam & Eve vegans?
- Gay priest loses everything--except his faith
- Cardinal Egan: Do as I say...Not as I do?
- Latin Lives! Thanks to Harry Potter...
- The Gospel of Saint Oprah?
- Is the iPhone Catholic? Is the PC Protestant?
- Archbishop Chaput: More on the Politics of Abortion
- Bishops v. Politicians: An abortion alternative
- FLASH! Dan Brown starts his own church!
- It Seems Like It Was Only Yesterday...
- Looking Back on Christianity21
- The Most Important Cartoon of the Year
- Ending Christian Euphemisms: "The Lord Laid It on My Heart"
- The Greatest TV Show of All Time
- Religious Minnesota Bloggers...
- Too Good to Pass Up
- Looking Back on Cornerstone: Phyllis Tickle's Emergence
- Talking Original Sin with Todd Friel
- Richard Mouw and Proposition 8
- Things Evangelicals Like
- Comment(s) of the Weekend
- Comment of the Day
- Comment of the Day 2
- "We Are Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality"
- What Happened in Missouri
- War & Torture: Foggy & Hellish
- Rick Warren vs. Gene Robinson
- Ted Haggard: Neither Gay nor Straight
- Comment of the Day
- Are You an MIE (Multi-Issue Evangelical)?
- An Interview at The High Calling
- An Advent Meditation by Christine Sine
- Album of the Year: Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago"
- Are We a Centrist Country?
- Comment of the Day
- My Blogging Rules
- A Lighter Moment: Same Sex Marriage Blogalogue
- Comment of the Weekend
- Charting the "Nones"
- A Poem for the Weekend
- Who Cut Off Van Gogh's Ear?
- Stanley Fish Is Right about Faith, Again
- Praying the Bible - Praying with Jesus
- Praying the Bible - The Reading of Lectio Divina
- What Is Practical Theology? Part Three
- Why I'm Often Embarrassed to be a Christian
- Comment of the Day
- Google Reader Fix
- Original Sin: A Definition
- Jack's Last Hunt
- I Want my Green M&Ms
- Is Rick Warren a Centrist?
- Food Fight! Beliefnet Bloggers Debate Rick Warren
- Marilyn McCord Adams on the Pragmatics of Hell (Keith)
- Memphis Bar-B-Que
- Comment(s) of the Day
- Penn Gillette Loves Him Some Gideons
- Quote of the Week
- Richard Cizik Shifts His View on SSU and Is Asked to Resign
- Calvin at 500, Calvinism 2.0
- GOP infidelity month: Gov. Mark Sanford
- Obama's abortion reduction packaging
- Iraqi Christians: The toll, and the cost
- Obama on faith--and abortion
- FLASH! Dan Brown starts his own church!
- Abortion and the Catholic Voter
- The Pope and the Jews: A failure to communicate?
- Kasper not so friendly to Williamson
- Pro-Life Day's "Battle of the Ads"
- Georg Ratzinger: "Lay off my brother!"
- "The Mystery of the Jews" is no more...
- Cardinal George on Bishop Williamson: "Deeply offensive"
- Bishop Tobin's chat with Obama: Did he really say that?
- And the winner is...Tim Dolan! (Who knew?)
- Vox populi moves Vatican: New Linz bishop withdraws
- Be careful what you pray for: Salma Hayek's tale
- Is the Catholic Campaign for Human Development...Catholic?
- "Doubts" grow on Merz NRB op-ed
- Fr. Richard McBrien: Liberal? Try "broad centrist"...
- Catholic Identity Crisis resolved: An ID card!
- The Crucifixion, human and divine
- Obama as a Nazi? Bill Donohue goes there...
- Thoughts for this Friday in Lent:
- Faith as Stress-buster? See, Lent is good for you!
- Catholic conundrum: Conservatives like Obama
- Cardinal Egan on celibacy: "A perfectly legitimate discussion."
- Natasha Richardson dies at 45
- Benedict in Cameroon, Day 1: Pope Leo?
- The Cardinal blasts, then meets, the President
- Christine Quinn: Not Irish enough--or too gay?
- More excommunications miscommunication
- Tiller's killing: Necessary...but unlawful?
- Obama names Vatican ambassador: Miguel H. Diaz
- "We want to see more families like Barack Obama's."
- Bishops meet: Leadership from a flock of shepherds
- Notre Dame gets a pass from Bishops
- Chrysler: Bad cars, great skyscraper
- Campus speakers: Double-standard?
- Glendon's daughter: Don't mess with Mom
- Jesuit weekly: Church should consider married priests
- Finding Obama's ambassador to the Vatican
- Notre Dame "reparation" Mass: Bishop Wenski explains
- If no FOCA, what now for the anti-abortion movement?
- The Empty Tomb: Cardinal Newman's last laugh
- Hiking salvation: Lost, but how I'm found
- The Three-Minute Confirmation Stick
- Is Barack Obama the new Al Smith?
- Donna Brazile: A good Catholic girl lets loose...
- Chaput to the Papist: "A quieter approach has not been effective..."
- Vatican embraces Freud: Anything for a gay-free priesthood!
- NEWS FLASH: Pope may allow women lectors!
- Dear Rick: Would you ask Barack and John about...
- Obama as Anti-Christ Theory Gathers Steam
- Pro-Life Democrats: Oxy-Morons?
- Detailing The Anti-Christ Imagery in the Obama Ad
- Pursuing Justice One Step at a Time
- The Pathology of American Politics
- A Poignant Dispatch from Gene Robinson at Lambeth
- Rick Warren Gives Sanctuary to Anti-Gay Episcopal Churches
- Faith Based Office by the Numbers
- Judging Religion
- Ending US Torture: A Time for Hope and Healthy Skepticism
- Obama, the Muslim World and a New Way Forward
- And There Lie the Bodies (by Gideon Levy)
- Partisans and Prayer: Right and Left together, for once
- The Auto Industry Bailout - A Hope and a Prayer
- Inaugural Invocation
- Election 2009 Mixed Blessings
- Halloween 2009 vs All Saints Day (Eternally)
- Health Care and Dispatches from the Conservative Underground
- Was Tiller's Murder Justice?
- A Non-Violent Reflection on Independence Day
- Conservative Cafeteria Catholics
- Dear Imam, Rabbi or Pastor: The Wrong Embryo Was Implanted, Can We Talk?
- Lutheran Gay Rights!
- Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama's Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Contradictions
- The Health Care Call with Faith Leaders and President Obama
- Threats and Acts of Violence from the Right Fringe - What is a Repubican Senator to Do?
- The Post 01/20/09 World
- Limbaugh Joins Fight Against Poverty
- Happy Progressive Income Tax Day!
- Bible Bill vs America
- Mother's Day, Feminism and Marylu
- Jon, Kate, and the Breakdown of the Evangelical Family
- The Right Name for the Religious Right
- The Poverty Forum: Deferential Option to the Rich
- Black Liberation Theology vs Victoria Jackson
- Brandeis, Banks, and Other People's Money
- Taking Back the Night
- Townhall.com - a Christian Backed Home for Racists
- Whose Conscience? Balancing Claims by Health Care Providers and Patients
- A Close Reading of the Text - The Progressive Approach to the Bible
- Rush, Race and the Religious Right
- Religious Left Rallies for Obama
- Take the Beliefnet Exit Poll
- Progressive Revival Poll
- muslims and proposition 8
- President Obama and the Muslim World
- The People's Counter-Coup
- A Christmas Prayer
- To the Christian Leaders of America in this Time of Crisis
- The "Trekkie" Campaign
- Sarah Palin: Religionless Christian?
- Surprise! Christian Right Running on Fear
- How Does a President Chose a Church?
- Bob Jones University is Right
- Church Threatens to Ex-communicate Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch
- On Evil and the Election
- Palin as VP - A Great Day
- Reading Heschel on the Sabbath
- Battle of the Bishops
- What values?
- How long, O Lord, how long?
- "When does life begin?" Interesting question. But it doesn't stop there...
- Put Away Falsehood
- Omid Safi
- Dog Whistles, Hypocrisy, and "Traditional" Christianity
- AP: Obama Chooses Biden
- Baptism by Politics: Sacraments and "The Saddleback Confession"
- Matthew 25 Releases Statement on Palin Speech
- Change and Experience Matter - So Does Character
- Catholic Bishops offer a Five-Point Bailout Plan
- Praying for Pipeline
- Obama Takes Debate at Ole Miss
- Palin Hears Voices
- Palin: The Religious Right's American Idol (by Lisa Sharon Harper)
- Palin's Religion: What's Scary, What's Not?
- Jack Osbourne Says His Father Got Emotional Watching 'God Bless Ozzy Osbourne' Documentary
- Nick Ashford, R.I.P.
- David Byrne finds new peace in performing.
- Paul Stanley on KISS - "A Timeless Truth"
- Rock and Roll survivor - Foreigner's Lou Gramm
- Make Love, Not Kapparos
- Jewish Book Carnival - Sukkot (October) Edition
- The best Yom Kippur break fast recipe. Really.
- Book reviews: The good ones, the bad ones, and the good bad ones.
- Thou shalt not commit what?
- Craft projects for Rosh Hashanah
- A story for my kids - the sweetness of missing each other
- Rosh Hashanah in Western Massachusetts
- Joseph and the Sabbath Fish, or I love Eric Kimmel part two
- Shepping Nachas
- Homemade Menorah Project - an experiment in bling
- Tea-soaked eggs for Passover
- The Long and Winding Road...that leads to Canaan
- Grover learns (a little bit of) Hebrew
- America's (Kosher) Test Kitchen
- Why I send my children to Jewish day school, part I've-lost-count
- Bread Machine Challah - in case it ever cools down
- Of course we're staying for kiddush. We just got here.
- Searching for schach in all the wrong places
- Getting ready for summer camp. In November.
- Jewifying our local co-op
- (More) Truly Divine Hanukkah Gelt
- And the winner is......
- Book Giveaway - making Cheshvan just a little less bitter
- About
- But is it good for the Jews?
- Redefining Shabbat, again and again
- What's in a name for an interfaith family?
- Happy Lag B'Omer
- Sometimes life imitates art
- Time for another giveaway
- Jewish Mommy Meme
- Back from vacation
- Party Pooper
- Trader Joe's makes me a better Jew
- Even cuter
- Home-shuling at Shul
- My first give-away!
- Kashering the toothbrushes
- A shabbat stroll with a purpose
- Surprisingly decent Passover cookies
- Judaism comes to my garden (once again)
- Jewish Music Together
- Home-shuling vs. Shul-shuling
- Homeshuling, or, Jewish parenting in the comfort of your own home
- The Sabbath World comes to visit. I wish she could stay.
- Yummy but ugly
- Playing Christians
- Thanksgiving
- How lucky am I?
- The last re-run
- And some kind of help is the kind of help.......
- Could these be any cuter?
- A Different Kind of Love (for Singles seeking Relationships)
- The Public Bus
- Living in Danger, Living in Love: Two Models for Adults with Disabilities
- Heaven and Hell
- It's Always Good to Laugh
- From East Texas to Jesus
- What I'm Reading: Articles on Autism and Church, Surrogacy, and Adoption and Down syndrome
- A Child Is Born
- Spiritual Transformation
- What Makes a "Superior" Race?
- When Parents Think You Should Wait to Get Married...
- "I'm an Agnostic"
- Chaos and Order
- Mental Age
- Mess
- Soft Bigotry
- Thin Places
- Limits and Love
- Stories of Real People with Down Syndrome
- What if Mary had wanted to choose her babies?
- Holiday Shopping for Jesus?
- It's a Girl!
- Baby Update
- Blessed Are Those with Alzheimer's
- Happy Birthday Penny
- Due Dates: A Book and a Baby
- Grace Instead of Guilt
- Grateful for Laughter
- Perfectly Human: Taking Off My Brave Face, by Libby Hodge
- Questions for Jesus: Where Can We Get This Living Water?
- Why Do People With Down Syndrome Talk Like That?
- Temple Grandin and the Equal Value of Human Life
- What I'm Reading: Articles on God and Pain, Atheism, God and Parenting, Income Inequality, and IVF
- Cleaning Out the House
- Favorites of 2010: Does it Make a Difference to Follow God?
- Favorites of 2010: Don't You Care if We Drown?
- I Failed as a Gardener
- Perfectly Human**: All People Are Messy, by Libby Germer
- What's up with Hollywood and the "R-Word"?
- Down Syndrome Girl: Not So Funny
- Follow Up on Idolatry
- Does Money Make You Happy?
- What I'm Reading: Serve God, Save the Planet
- Worthwhile Wastefulness
- Is Disability Normal?
- Down Syndrome, Siblings, and Keeping Each Other Safe
- Perfectly Human**: My Friend Johnny by Matt Rhodes
- Perfectly Human**: Walking In and Amongst Something Holy by Becky Dawson
- Psalm 23: Make Me Lie Down
- Hello Little One
- Chocolate Cake, Clear Skies, and a Digger: A Perfect Birthday
- Perfectly Human**: Not Despite, Because, by Lydia
- Haiti and asking "why"?
- Cultural Narcissism and Memoir: Confession and Redemption Without God?
- Choices
- Who Is God?
- Drugs and Down Syndrome
- Faith in Action within our Schools
- Afraid of the Flu?
- Talking about Disability, Talking about Ability...
- Mary's Shame, Mary's Glory
- Abortion and Understanding
- What I'm Reading: Books and "the-fear-of-the-Lord"
- What I'm Reading: The Case Against Perfection
- Disability: A Seat at the Table
- The Golden Rule and My Squabbling Children
- Our Church versus the Environmentalists
- The Comprehensive Nature of Care
- Perfectly Human**: Walking Toward Freedom by Jessica Bigby
- By the way, we are NOT the Perfect Family
- Christian Impressions
- From Good Friday to Easter
- The Trap of the Golden Calf: Who Do You Worship?
- R. Crumb's literal Genesis comic
- How well stocked is your pantry?
- Mike Jones Had to Say Something
- There's No Sex Ed in Seminary
- Rick Warren's Jesus prayer
- Thankful that Thanksgiving is Over
- Richard Cizik Resigns from National Association of Evangelicals
- Haggard Comeback, Interrupted
- Top Delightfully Depressing Christmas Songs
- Cultivators and Creators: An Interview with Andy Crouch
- Farming Against the Anti-Christ
- Best Religious Books of 2008
- All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue
- Anne Rice takes your questions
- Again: Why is Focus on the Family cutting jobs?
- Soft Pre-Launch
- Should Christians Be Concerned about McCain? (testing 123)
- Signs of the End: Oprah at the Emmys
- Mad Men - Joan's glass ceiling and the early days of television advertising
- Max Lucado's Lamentation
- Forgive this Blog
- A.N. Wilson on the Darwin-Hitler Connection
- The Cowardice of Richard Dawkins
- Joe Lieberman, Jew-in-Chief
- Ibn Ezra Agrees: An "Apikoros" (Heretic) Is One Who Rejects Intelligent Design
- Don't Believe Jeff Sharlet on "Fundamentalism"
- God's Image in Man's Face -- and Hands and Feet, Too!
- The Madness of Robert Joe Halderman
- Full Female Crudity (& Gay Marriage)
- Two Cheers for Jews for Jesus
- A Morality Crisis in Orthodox Judaism?
- The Real Enemies of Israel and the Jews
- Why Intelligent Design is Jewish
