Even the Devils Believe

After having Barack Obama in 2005, at my wife’s commencement, and Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. at this year’s commencement, our alma mater, Knox College, had to step it up or risk disappointing all the seniors graduating this year.
We just found out from a friend on the faculty that President Bill Clinton has [...]

I’m taking a little break from the blog until after the first of the year, just recharging my batteries, doing a last push to get the rest of the Sunday propers done for the missal, and so forth. I may pop in with a comment or two if anything interesting comes up, but otherwise I’m [...]

If you’re as interested as I am in Catholic liturgy and don’t already read the New Liturgical Movement blog, definitely add it to your aggregator or list of links. They’re situated in the “reform of the reform” in the Roman Catholic Church, seeking to meld the best of Vatican II’s liturgical insights with the traditional [...]

I finally got the Snapfish website working and was able to see the photos shared by Fr Skip, who is on staff at Our Lady of Mt Carmel in DC. Sue and I went to the dedication a couple weeks ago and got to meet a number of great people who are involved in that [...]

Writing in WorldNetDaily, Judge Roy Moore (he of the massive Ten Commandments statue in the Alabama Judicial Building) argues that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress who will be sworn in next month, is not qualified to be a Congressman because of his religion (HT Shakespeare’s Sister):
Islamic law is simply incompatible with our [...]

Shakespeare’s Sister has a fantastic post up on feminism’s raison d’être. She takes on both the myth of feminism as “bitching about men” and the myth that feminists have a low opinion of men:
Charges of “hypersensitivity” regularly lobbed at feminist bloggers often contain overt or covert reference to the notion that it is only because [...]

Don Jim links to one of those stories we so rarely hear about: an Islamic school in Australia expelled two of its students for desecrating the Christian Bible. He also links to the Minaret of Freedom Blog, where Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad criticizes their teachers for not instilling more respect for the sacred texts of others [...]

Seems like it’s been a quiet day in the blogosphere today. I’ve been at my desk most of the day working on a big project for work.
I did want to point to this NCR editorial, which takes some pretty serious shots at the American bishops of the Roman Catholic Church and the sheer implausibility of [...]

I hope everyone enjoyed the series on the theology of Johnny Cash. I’m glad I finally sat down and wrote it — I’ve been talking about the idea for long enough!
I wanted to mentioned a couple other things related to Johnny Cash. First, a reader who works for Thomas Nelson Publishers mentioned in comments to [...]

Kyle points to a very beautiful post on priesthood and friendship by Episcopal priest David Baumann. He talks about friendship from the perspective of one who previously erred on the side of aloof professionalism, but I found it a very helpful meditation as someone who usually leans, and sometimes errs, on the other side:
It is [...]