Even the Devils Believe

The other IC item I have to offer is a segment NPR’s All Things Considered aired last night about an Independent Catholic priest being tried for heresy by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino. Fr. Ned Reidy was a priest in the Roman church for nearly twenty years until he left in 1999 [...]

Before we head out of town this evening for the holiday weekend, I wanted to offer a couple of posts on the Independent Catholic movement. The first is a review of Dr. John Plummer’s excellent new book, The Many Paths of the Independent Sacramental Movement, which covers Independent Catholicism, Independent Orthodoxy, and the various [...]

Susan Rose was talking about unexpected blessings yesterday. My list of unexpected blessings is rather long this year.
First and foremost in my mind is University Christian Ministries, where I serve as interim director. As I mentioned in a previous post, many churches have given up on campus ministry and young people. I [...]

Just before Christmas, Faith and Theology pointed to an address by Pope Benedict on December 1st to the International Theological Commission. He had some important things to say about the responsibility of theology to its community:
To consider theology a private affair of the theologian is to underestimate its very nature.
It is only within the [...]

It’s back to the grind after Christmas break! I’m still too much in holiday mode to write much of anything, but I have a backlog of things to blog that will show up later this week and early next.
For now, here’s a meme I was tagged for by Roxanne.
Seven Things To Do Before I [...]

I just submitted my final for Introduction to Independent Catholicism and I’m feeling good about it.* I’ll be spending the weekend finishing papers for my Jesus Prayer course and singing a whole lot of Christmas carols at church.
So until next Wednesday or so, know that you’ll be in my prayers, and if you celebrate [...]

This American Life aired a fascinating program last week about Bishop Carlton Pearson, once a rising star of the evangelical world, whose megachurch in Tulsa, OK, drew over 5000 congregants every Sunday. Recently, Rev. Pearson’s belief in Hell was seriously challenged, and he began preaching a gospel of inclusion, teaching that all of God’s [...]

I have a hundred things I could say about today’s ruling on Intelligent Design, most of which would violate my general rule of trying to be positive on this blog. I promise that sometime next month I’ll finish my long-planned “third way” post on creationism and evolution and post it over at Religious Liberal [...]

Sarah Dylan Breuer has an excellent meditation up on Christmas and the Incarnation. Her blog is intended primarily as an aid to preaching the lectionary, but this particular meditation makes good reading for those who aren’t preaching this Christmas as well.
When John writes that “God so loved the world,” the word for “love” he [...]

John Spencer, the actor who played Leo McGarry on “The West Wing,” died yesterday of a heart attack at an LA hospital. He was part of an ensemble that brought a vision of politics to American homes that had more to do with doing the right thing than with grabbing power, more with [...]