A remarkable new book -- one of the best I've read in a long time -- confirms something I've said more than once here on the blog and in other venues: If your theology causes you to devalue, ...

A Michelangelo sketch has been found at the Vatican, this report says. These stories astonish me. How is it possible to misplace something for 450 years? I intend to answer that as soon as I find some ...

My friend Cathy Grossman of USA Today has written an interesting piece on the pope's new less-restrictive rules on the Latin Mass. I'm thinking the Catholic Church is big enough to allow this kind of ...

People who know me -- and readers who have paid attention to my columns over the decades -- know that I believe our culture often has treated people of homosexual orientation with contempt and ...

This past Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri ordained six people -- including a close friend -- as deacons. The sanctuary of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Kansas City, as ...

In the conversations (a polite word for it) Americans have been having about race in recent years, especially since the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, it's not been unusual ...

President Bush's "Faith-Based Initiative" is under challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday heard arguments in the case. I've long thought that some parts of the FBI, as I like to call it, ...

ABIQUIU, N.M.-- In her book, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, what my friend Kathleen Norris says of the Dakotas can be said also of northern New Mexico: "The region requires that you wrestle with it ...

Let's start this new year with a thought or two about taking faith seriously and taking it on its own terms. No doubt you have read in recent years the idea that religion is merely a function of a ...

God bought the new Microsoft Vista upgrade for Windows and, writes this blogger, is miffed. Ah, a little weekend satire, folks. Regular readers of this blog know that from time to time I have talked ...

Iran's cool-headed, always-makes-sense president says the West must follow God or vanish. But as far as we can make out from the stories about this, Mahmoud Amadinejad didn't specify which God the ...

The Christian Science Monitor has done this nice piece from Turkey about the Sufi poet Rumi, who, 800 years after his birth, is one of the most popular and best-selling poets in the U.S. His mystic ...