December 26, 2010 Predictions for the New Year 2011 Though it is always risky to predict the future, I have a feeling that most of the issues we’ll be thinking about and the…
December 7, 2010 John Lennon and the End of Religion No Religion Too? On the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, we note that people are drawn more than ever to his view that the…
November 30, 2010 Gay Priests? New Vatican Document Bans Gay Priests In a new statement that bears the signature of Pope Benedict, the Vatican has announced its intention to…
November 27, 2010 Stem Cell Research Stem Cell Research: Are We Messing With Powers and Prerogatives of God? The South Korean researcher who won world acclaim as the first scientist…
September 28, 2010 A New Inquisition A New Inquisition: Neither Welcome Nor Needed A Protestant’s response to the Vatican plan for a “visitation” of all Roman Catholic seminaries in the…
September 26, 2010 The Wall That Should Not Fall At a time when one group of people argues that the only way to “restore America” is to enforce the values expoused by faith…
September 26, 2010 Are Americans Stingy Are Americans Stingy? While hurricane Katrina has focused attention on the persistence of poverty within the US, the question raised in the context of…
September 22, 2010 The Homosexuality Debate Homosexuality Debate Apparently the Vatican is about to issue new guidelines, barring even celibate, gay men from the priesthood. Few issues have divided Christian…
September 2, 2010 Remembering 9/11 Commemorating 9/11 in the aftermath of Katrina Still stunned by the devastation of this terrible storm, we’re fast approaching another anniversary of the terrorist…
April 14, 2010 The Shroud of Turin Rises Again …. Sort of. The Shroud of Turin is again on display at the Cathedral of Turin in Italy and potentially two million people including Pope Benedict are…