2025-03-31
2025-03-31
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- Benedict XVI explains his SSPX strategy--such as it is
- Which Christmas? Luke or Matthew?
- Priest faces excommunication over women's ordination stand
- Avery Dulles, RIP
- Can Catholics read the Bible?
- Channel the spirit of Pentecost every day
- Pope Benedict: Liberal, schmiberal!
- Michael Jackson...Pop theologian?
- Bernardin and Obama and "Common Ground" (UPDATE)
- Abortion, Augustine and...Nancy Pelosi?
- Missionary proposition: Work the home front?
- Catholic-Jewish relations continue to deteriorate
- Bishop Williamson: From the Whale's Mouth
- Bishops' strategy on Obama: Good Cops, Bad Cops?
- Lenten recession reflection: Jim Martin on "The Colbert Report"
- Is this any way to run a railroad?
- Text of Pope's meeting with U.S. Jewish leaders
- What is the point of interfaith dialogue?
- Cringe alert! Mike Huckabee in stilettos
- Newsflash: Catholics read the Bible!
- SCANDAL? Catholic teacher fired for marrying a divorced guy
- The "myth" of holiday suicide rates
- Which Christmas? Luke or Matthew?
- The Hokey Pokey is anti-Catholic? So THAT'S what it's all about!
- Bishop D'Arcy to boycott Obama at Notre Dame
- Text of Bishop D'Arcy's statement on Obama at Notre Dame
- Packed pews on Palm Sunday But who are those people?
- A priesthood returning to its roots?
- Obama splits the baby. And denounces cloning.
- Carnevale cocktail: A final Dolan mixer before Lent
- Pope on the defensive...and it's not pretty
- Brazil church officials defend approach to child rape victim
- Portrait of Shakespeare? Funny, he doesn't look Catholic...
- A pastor's lesson in dying, and living
- Pope and condoms: The Full Monty
- Tiller's clinic to be anti-abortion museum?
- Promoting fatherhood: Obama's family values
- Pope to clergy: "After God, the priest is everything!"
- Ken Starr (hearts) Sonia Sotomayor
- SF Catholics facing a Holocaust?
- Obama nixes Jesus? Of crosses and urban legends
- Politics as Sacrament: WaPo story on the Church
- The Pope in the Holy Land: Two verdicts
- Angels & Demons: Read all about it right here
- U.S. Catholics: Let Obama speak (and keep abortion legal)
- Forgive trespasses? Alan Keyes and 21 others arrested at Notre Dame
- Women as Swiss Guards? They could make this look good...
- American in Rome: Democrats are "Party of Death"
- Questioning Celibacy: VOTF calls for a debate
- How do you create a true "Culture of Life"?
- Miami Archbishop: We're not "party bosses"
- From 9/11 to 9/12...and beyond.
- Papal Preacher on sin, civility, and the Christian politican
- "Biker chicks" was one thing. But "Nuns on Hogs"?
- When does history become historic?
- Dropping a bomb on his way out: Archbishop Burke and the case of Sister Louise
- For Independence Day, an independent woman
- Life Is A Theater - Who Is In Your Front Row?
- The Reach of God’s Arm
- There is a Divine Plan for My Life
- TEAMwork - Together Everyone Achieves More
- Life Happens - Think Prosperously
- The Farmer & The Donkey - Take A Step Up!
- A Morning Prayer
- Claim Your Highest Good Now!
- The Weaker I am, The Stronger I AM
- Transformation Happens Instantaneously
- Be Open To Life
- How Do You Claim Your Divine Heritage of Good?
- 7 Triggers to Help You Determine Your Freedom Guardrails
- An Experience to Eclipse All Others
- True Power - Ego or Inner Strength of Proper Principles?
- Your Journey to Greatness
- Grooming for Greatness
- Rebuilding the Rubble of Your Life Through Prayer
- The World Is In Your Hands
- Is It A Loss or A Gain?
- Challenge and Effort Are Your Friends!
- Now Is The Time!
- Life Can Give You Strength
- The Science of Becoming Excellent
- Discover Your Greatest Gift!
- Heal, Inspire and Prosper!
- 3 Reasons Why We Don't Get Into God's Word More
- A Glorious Quest
- Development
- The Sourcebook of Success
- Education - The New Heart At Work!
- Five Lessons For A Better World
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 2
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 9
- Loving Kindness
- Zero tolerance for Muslim participation in politics?
- What Rick Warren Should Ask Obama & McCain On Abortion (Guest Post by Eric McFadden)
- New McCain Ad Implies Obama is the Anti-Christ?
- The Supposed Fraudulence of Liberal Christianity
- Reclaiming the "L-word"
- Draft of New Democratic Platform Language on Abortion
- Chaput, McCain and not-so-distant thunder from the Catholic "wafer wars"...
- "Praise the Lord--and Pass the Ammunition"
- Why Muslim Americans should find their political home among progressives
- Specter's switch
- The Moral Superiority of Vegetarianism
- Faith, Politics, and the Rest of Us
- Barack of One Hundred Days?
- Gotcha Miss California
- Hate Crimes Legislation and the Pulpit
- Stop the ACLU Torture Photos Campaign
- The Plot Against the Riverdale Synagogue and Why Obama is Right
- Sexual Orientation and the Pursuit of Happiness
- America's Racial and Religious Equality of Fear
- The President's Economic Message to America: Yes, We Can!
- The Dalai Lama & Commemorating 'Tibetan Independence Day' on March 10
- Shovel Ready Jobs Needed in Washington
- Slumdog Millionaire: An Oscar for Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
- Secular is Better in Iraq
- Q: Ever Wonder What Anti-Gay Rhetoric Leads To? A: "Corrective" Rape
- 'The Dalai Lama Is My Primary Model for a Life of Realization'
- will he chatter the Oath?
- Faith Based Discrimination?
- A Pagan View on the Bible and Abortion
- Whither the Catholic Church in 2009?
- A New President, MLK, Mother Parks, a Congressman, My Boys and Me
- Rich and Rick: A Post-Partisan Parable
- Prop 8 - The Musical!
- Harmonies of Liberty by Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins
- Israel in Gaza
- God Damn Wall Street!
- Religious Voices for Gay Rights at the National Equality March
- Big Oil, Corporate Responsibility and Catholic Guilt
- US Torture Programs - Obama's Mixed Progress (by George Hunsinger)
- American Liberals and Progressive Never Miss an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity -- or Are We ready to Change Directions
- When Generosity, Love, and Kindness are Public Policy, the Violence We Saw in Arizona will Dramatically Diminish
- Why Jews Around the World are Praying for the Victory of the Egyptian Uprising
- Thanksgiving Day Prayer 2009
- Christian Leaders Reject Ugandan Anti-gay Bill
- No Moral Relativism Here
- 47 National Religious Leaders (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) Call for Urgent Priority to Health Care Reform--and why I signed
- Obama's (Almost) Perfect Speech
- Obama to Iran: The Whole World Is Watching the Moral Arc Bending Towards Justice
- Gay People Should Celebrate and Support the NAACP at 100!
- Interfaith Health Care Reform
- REM/Move On - We Can't Wait Health Care Video
- Lying and Truth-telling in the Health Care Debate
- A Choice for Catholic Bishops: Confrontation or Engagement?
- Thanksgiving Day Prayer
- Pastor in Chief
- The Pope, the Consistent Ethic of Life, and the Common Good
- Torture is a Moral Issue
- UPDATE: Bishops scotch politics debate
- Update: Church says priest was wrong in Obama/Communion flap
- Voters respond to Obama on Abortion Reduction
- The Election Sermon
- Indiana goes for Obama! (Well, just South Bend, for now)
- McCain Vice Presidents: The Religion Factor
- Obama Muslim Outreach Director Resigns
- The Supposed Fraudulence of Liberal Christianity
- Zero tolerance for Muslim participation in politics?
- A Jewish Perspective on Palin
- The Race for Pastor-in-Chief
- The Greatest Show on Earth?
- The Current of History Meets a New Tide of Hope
- The Christian Candidates and the Question of Evil
- The Dalai Lama connects with Obama and McCain while at the Aspen Institute
- The System
- Common Good Revival
- My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them
- Michelle Obama: A Wife We Can Believe In
- 45 Years Later: Still Holding Our Applause
- Beyond Roe? New study shows abortion rates lowered by public policy
- Bloggingheads Debate: Richard Land v Brian McLaren
- Cautious Hopefulness from the Faith Vote Panel at the DNC
- Being the Change, So Change Can Happen
- BEING CATHOLIC: BEYOND PARTISANSHIP AND LABELS
- Election Trends Among Religious Groups
- Faith of their Fathers? Not When it Comes to the Culture Wars
- Rev. Jim Wallis Shares "My Personal 'Faith Priorities' for this Election"
- "National Get Kicked Out of Church Parking Lot Weekend"
- "He Is Not Like Us" Crosses The Line
- Gambling with Politics
- "Joe the Plumber" gets his 15 minutes...
- Jesus Christ: Do you REALLY know him?
- Disappointed in Palin's Speech
- An Ironic Night at the RNC
- What Do Religious Voices Have to Say About the Crisis?
- Reflections on September 12, 2001 (by Eric Sapp)
- Sounding the Alarm: Darfur, Elul, and the Presidential Election
- Teen pregnancy: Is there a faith-based program?
- Unremarkable
- A Spiritual Bailout
- All In Good Time
- Kindness, The Highest Form of Wisdom
- Kindness
- Transformation Happens Instantaneously
- There Are No Mistakes!
- You Can Do It Now!
- Difficult/Challenging Time = Opportunity
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 2
- Let Me Be An Instrument of Your Peace
- A Prayer to Counteract Lies: Hopelessness
- Achieving Excellence Part I
- If It’s To Be, It’s Up To Me!
- Can I Find Freedom on my Own?
- Intermarriage, gay marriage - it's really not so different
- Challah shortcuts - bread machine and no knead
- You don't have to be Jewish....to write a great Yom Kippur children's book
- Guess what's Kosher for Passover (this will change your life.)
- Wordless Wednesday: Happy Tu B'shevat
- Best Hamentashen Ever, even better. And, a Purim opera.
- Surprisingly decent Passover cookies
- What are your favorite Purim books?
- Fresh-baked challah, one-week old
- Eshet Chayil - a woman of valor
- Homeshuling's Top 10 Jewish Rituals Your Family Will Love
- Graduating from PJ Library - suggestions?
- photo-opp fail
- Festival of Eden - are you going? (ps, I can get you a discount)
- All Together Singing in the Kitchen - we have a winner!
- We have a winner
- First days of school, first days of Elul
- 9/11 and the sounding of the shofar - one Jewish day school teacher's experience
- Think globally, blog locally
- Scenes from an interfaith wedding, nine happy years later
- What matters?
- What's even *fancier* than Valentine's Day?
- And we can eat matzah why.....?
- I'll have your spam. I love it.
- Using up chametz - more recipes
- Long distance relationships. With grandparents.
- Stamp Out Hunger
- Scenes from the megilla
- Who knew?
- Announcing a contest!
- Limmud NY
- Baby Einstein Refund - a great talmudic debate?
- Re-runs, #4
- A Freilichen Purim
- When tragedy hits (really) close to home
- A week of re-runs
- Tis the season for olive oil
- 15 other things to do for Tu B'shevat
- How to make the best bagels ever
- And on the seventh day, God stayed in pajamas
- When did I become *that* mother?
- Shalom Sesame, or, is Jake Gyllenhaal really Jewish?
- The seders and what I cooked
- In which I pretend to be a real author
- An Interview with Eric Kimmel
- A Knitter's Home Companion - announcing a winner!
- The PJ Library - what's not to love? (plus a giveaway)
- I have missed the mark. And chewed the tail off a horse.
- Thinking about the unthinkable
- A song for Yom Kippur
- What's Jewish about competitive eating?
- Celebrating my mixed marriage
- Praising our children, loving our children
- And the winner is......
- And the winner (this time) is......
- Show me your sukkah!
- I am that mean old lady
- Hanukkah Art Workshop with Homeshuling
- Look no further (or is it farther?)
- At least there's Sunday
- All I ever wanted....
- Goodnight Shma
- Celebrating birthdays, big and small
- Using up chametz
- Subscribe!
- The anti-Halloween
- The Best Hamentashen Ever
- And the winner is.....
- Why do I (almost) turn into someone else on Passover?
- Crazy Kosher!
- Why we home-shul
- In honor of Bubbe
- Jewish Advent Calendar
- Perhaps I should change the name of my blog
- Solstice Peak Power!
- Turn Lemons Into Lemonade!
- Release & Freedom
- Your Glow Comes from Within
- Common Sense is Good Sense!
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 12
- Fixed Thoughts
- Fixed Thoughts
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race
- Perseverance
- Create Loving & Fulfilling Relationships
- What Do You Do During Difficult Times?
- Keep It Light!
- The Power of Together
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 20
- The Unsuspecting Part of Our Body That Can Cause Us to Stumble
- Respect – The Key to Life
- Progress
- Energy + Focus = Reality
- How Jesus Responded to Someone Caught in Sexual Sin
- BE STRONG; FEAR NOT!
- Sun/The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind)
- Top Five Regrets
- Reboot – Start Fresh!
- SOAR
- Life Opens Up When We Do
- The Universe Always Provides!
- Forgiveness = Letting Go
- Darkest Just Before The Dawn
- Are You Inspired?
- Danger or Opportunity?
- Happy Valentine’s Day!
- How Do You Learn?
- 3 Steps to True Forgiveness
- Do You Suffer From Financial Anorexia?
- Divine Wisdom
- It’s An Inside Game
- A Prayer Against the Fear of Terror
- The Lessons of the Wolves
- Two Kinds of People
- Keep Your Fork
- Proper Nourishment
- Keep Going!
- My Conversation with God
- My Unique Beauty
- Invisible Forces
- My Chain of Good!
- Turn FEAR Into POWER!
- The BP Oil Spill: What Would You Do?
- Work, in Seven Words (dedicated to Michael Pollan)
- The Secret Door to Success
- What Do You Expect?
- Gentle and Focused Attention
- The World Is In Your Hands
- A Prayer to be a Good Wife
- Transform Any Negative Pattern
- A Reason, A Season or A Lifetime
- Intuition/Guidance
- Our Bodies Are Temples of Love & Abundance
- God is Bigger Than Our Problems
- Energy = GOLD DUST IN THE AIR!
- Claim Your Highest Good Now!
- Life Opens Up When You Do!
- Leap of Faith
- Carrots, Eggs or Coffee?
- An Attitude of Gratitude
- Why the 'Hypocrite' Argument is a Lousy Excuse to Avoid Church
- Our Prime Purpose
- Why Are You Here?
- How Do You Learn?
- Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Healing Meditation
- There is a Divine Plan
- Success & Transformation Are Always Possible
- Be Remarkable!
- 5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse on Valentine's Day
- Redefining the Purpose of Marriage: A Wedding Sermon
- The One Thing You Need to Know About Emotional Issues and Struggles
- Eliminate What Doesn’t Work
- Down Syndrome and Friendship
- An Invitation to Question Jesus
- Perfectly Human: God is Great by Karen Jackson
- Mothers who Matter
- Perfectly Human: My Jackson by Mica May
- Going Organic
- Separation and Connection
- Adoption, One More Time
- Incarnation
- Righteousness
- Favorites of 2010: Who Decides Defective? and a Spiritual Defense of Gift-Giving
- Is it Hard to be a Christian at Christmas?
- Perfectly Human: Flying High by Kate Truesdell
- What I'm Reading: Articles on Abortion
- My Perfect Halloween
- Questions for Jesus: Why This Waste?
- Why I'm Glad We Need Other People
- Should a Surrogate Mother Keep Another Couple's Baby if the Baby Has Down Syndrome?
- Should Emotional Gain Trump Ethical Concerns?
- Favorites of 2010: Broken Bodies, Blessed Bodies
- Science and Religion: How do we know what we know?
- A Celebrity who Gets It and a TV Show that Just Might...
- The Children are Watching
- The Frightening Nature of Hope
- So what exactly is Down syndrome?
- Thanks to Andy Crouch
- Obama's Influences: Stories and Statistics
- What Makes Us Human?
- Us With God: Part One
- "Remember the Poor"
- Same Sex Marriage and Love
- The Curses of Brokenness, the Blessings of Limitations
- What does alcohol have to do with God?
- What Yoga has to do with Snowstorms
- Book Reading at Yale and an Article worth Reading
- Education and Participation in the Kingdom, Part 1
- God With Us: Part Three
- Creation Sings (Joy to the World Part Two)
- Blessings Flow (Joy to the World Part Three)
- William the Strong
- The Gift of Children
- Welcome to Thin Places
- What I'm Reading: Articles on men and women, education and disability, too much stuff, and American Christianity and teenagers
- Do Kids Make You Happy?
- Why Dads Matter
- Perfectly Human: Transparency, by Margot Starbuck
- No Shopping on Sundays
- The Perils of 4-year old Tennis
- What do you think about Birth Control?
- Prenatal Diagnosis: What Would You Do?
- The Prettiest Small Town in the South...
- Lenten Reflections: Lenten Lapses
- Adultery: My Genes Made Me Do It
- The Joys and Dangers of Spiritual Writing
- The Lessons of the Wolves
- Magical, Fulfilling Relationships, Part I
- Magical, Fulfilling Relationships, Part II
- Challenge and Effort
- Today is Your Independence Day!
- Expect Good Things In Expected & Unexpected Ways!
- Nourishment
- Keep Going
- Turn Lemons Into Lemonade!
- Go With The Flow
- 3 Incredible Rewards of Consuming the Word
- The Way to Peace & Fulfillment
- An Attitude of Love
- Development
- Expect Good Things, Expect Miracles!
- Rick Warren's Job, and Other Highlights from the Beliefnet Interview
- John Mark McMillan is a Keith Green-U2-My Morning Jacket Mashup
- Who said it?
- Young Earth Wins Cameron Strang's Facebook Poll
- Celebrity Bible characters
- Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent
- Dick Staub - "The Islam I Know"
- Evangelicals less worried about global climate change - USATODAY.com
- Collect: Prayer for the Week
- John Piper: Vote as if not voting
- Daniel Clark's culture shock
- In "Religulous," Maher is Less
- Tough Times Reveal Tough People!
- A Prayer for Busy Families
- Happy Thanksgiving...Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Gratitude is the Secret to Effective Prayer
- How To Transform Any Negative Pattern
- The Farmer & The Donkey – Take A Step Up!
- YOU Are Totally Responsible For Your Life!
- A Time For Peace
- Your Key To Success
- If It's To Be, It's Up To Me!
- Monkey See, Monkey Do
- Your Colorful Self
- The Clinging, Fire
- What You Don't Hear from the Media about Evolution
- Tax Extensions, Fatherhood, & Noah
- Canaanites for Same-Sex Marriage
- When Anti-Semitism Makes Sense
- Why the Exodus Matters
- A Division of Labor in Creation
- Darwin and Mao
- Tiger Woods to Divorce? Who Cares!
- My Son the Druid
- Measuring the Charisma Deficit in the Jewish World
- The Enchantment of Torah
- The Enigma of Adoption
- Obama, the Left & the Ten Commandments
- On Being Witnessed to at Tully's
- Obama Circumcised? How Dare the "Birthers" Ask!
- Irving Kristol, Darwin Doubter, RIP
- Against Imprisonment
- Darwinist Faithful Indirectly Affirm Darwin-Hitler Link
- Jewish Mysticism Meets Intelligent Design: Whose Signature in the Cell?
- George Gilder's Israel Test
- What if James von Brunn Had Been an Intelligent Design Advocate?
- A "Heretic" in Jewish Terms? Someone Who Denies Intelligent Design
- Rashi's Importance for Christians
- My Source on Same-Sex Marriage in Ancient Canaan
- The Pope in Jerusalem
- Provincial Orthodoxy -- A Formula for Healing Judaism's Divisions?
- Why Paleocons Hate Neocons
- Religion's Dark Side, and Evolution's
- Darwin's (Failed) Predictions
- Did You See My Alps?
- Why God is Not a Liberal: The View from Leviticus
- A.N. Wilson, Darwin Doubter
- Spengler, Soul Brother
- Reading the Bible, Reading the Quran
- Charmed by the First Black Woman Rabbi
- Hey, Maimonides School, Ever Hear of "Exile"?
- Doing the Remarkable
- Save The Planet!
- Mid-Year Goal Check – A Prayer
- Respect - The Key To Life
- 5 Empty Tombs You Can Walk Out of Because of Easter
- What Does It Actually Mean to 'Repent'?
- Live A Conscious & Enlightened Life
- Beginner's Mind
- Prosperity Consciousness.........Be A Mega Magnet
- A Prayer to be a Good Wife
- The Prosperity Commandments
- Be Your Essence
- Be An Uplifter!
- Finding Your Promised Land
