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Under God
Under God
by | Mar 15, 2024

I am writing from a roadside bar. These remote places still exist in the West, on the port or starboard side of a highway, with a frowning owner, and liquor bottles blanketed with dust. They are places that were born…

by | Mar 5, 2024

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has permitted, but not required, its ministers to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies since 2014. But that allowance is no longer sufficient for the progressive denomination; it now aims to mandate that future ministers affirm transgenderism and…

by | Mar 2, 2024

There’s a fatal temptation with Lent. Few people struggle to come up with a list of things to “give up” — and frequently those lists are quite long with items like sweets, carbs, TV shows, genres of music, and so…

by | Feb 24, 2024

If you’ve missed the Catholic Church of the 1970s, no need to worry. Last weekend, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles hosted its annual Religious Education (RE) Congress — one of the largest gatherings of Catholics in the U.S. — at…

by | Feb 17, 2024

The highly regarded Pew Research Center has released its latest analysis of the religious beliefs of Americans and consequently acquired its usual major media headlines. The Washington Post version led: “nones — nonreligious Americans — increasing in U.S.” National Public…

by | Feb 16, 2024

Some people find God after falling off a horse, but most Christians approach faith on a day-to-day basis through a cocktail made up of God’s grace, prayer, the cultivation of virtues and sacraments, and also, to some extent, human affections….

by | Feb 2, 2024

The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse and worse. Ryan Burge, religious pollster extraordinaire, chimed in with one last…

by | Jan 14, 2024

The date was September 1, 2015, a Tuesday. It was an unusual day at the Rowan County courthouse in Kentucky. County Clerk Kim Davis arrived shortly before 7:00 a.m. Awaiting Davis were dozens of reporters and a few lawyers. The…

by | Jan 6, 2024

It didn’t take long for the world to respond — in a veritable firestorm — to the Vatican’s release of Fiducia supplicans just three weeks ago. Within days, images of priests donning vestments and blessing homosexual couples in front of…

by | Jan 2, 2024

Mississippi’s Michael Cassidy stands charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for “vandalizing” the Satanic Temple’s display in the Iowa capitol. Well, there’s been a bunch of vandalizing going on, including that directed at a 25-foot-tall statue of a mounted Confederate general,…

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