Faith
Bart’s Problem
In his new book, God’s Problem, Bart Ehrman tries to prove that the God of the Bible doesn't answer the question of why we suffer, but his argument falls flat. In the end, what Ehrman and other “new atheists” forget is that a world without God is not a world without evil or innocent suffering. It’s simply a world of suffering without hope. READ MORE >
Politics
Why I Love Obama
(...But I Won't Vote for Him.) READ MORE >
Issues
A Question of Empathy
How science is rehsaping the abortion debate READ MORE >
Faith
Benedict XVI: The Pope of Hope
For Benedict, Christ’s promise of his second coming and the final judgment is a pledge that evil and injustice will not have the last word in human history. READ MORE >
Music
Radiohead: Together in the Alone
Through their music, Radiohead communes with everyone who's ever been tempted to despair in a world where God seems absent READ MORE >
All That Dark
Some say that No Country for Old Men makes evil look too powerful and goodness too puny. But that’s the way the world looks most of the time. READ MORE >
Faith
Repeat the Sounding Joy
Repetitive prayer draws me into the Church stretching across time and space, each seemingly identical facet casting light onto a different place in my heart. READ MORE >
Faith
Jesus: An Ever-Present Claim
We are in a period of history never known before: a time in which the claim of Jesus has been removed from the world and must be proclaimed and defended as if it were the first time the Christian claim has been made in history
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