Life of Faith
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Let Religious Freedom Ring
Update: In a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court decided in Hobby Lobby’s favor. When Chuck…
“I am a Christian, and I Will Remain a Christian”
In August 2013 the Sudanese authorities arrested Meriam Ibrahim, daughter of a Sudanese Muslim man and an…
A Tale of Different Funerals
There’s a great old Twilight Zone episode (“Elegy”) in which future astronauts crash land on an asteroid…
Mission Time
The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of…
An Open Letter to the Patriarch of Moscow
His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Danilov Monastery 115191 Moscow RUSSIA Your Holiness: Grace…
Hate Religion But Love Buddhism?
Buddhism has been all the rage lately: The Dalai Lama wrapped up his American tour earlier this…
Please, Leave the Hagia Sophia Alone
In November 2012, my wife and I visited Hagia Sophia, the great former Eastern Orthodox basilica. For…
A Prayer for Death
We tame the Lord’s Prayer. We have to, so it isn’t nearly as disturbing to us as…
Mideast Christians, Dhimmis Once More?
Recently, an Islamist group in the Syrian opposition, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),…
Micro-Christendoms
Years ago, members of a Boulder, Colorado, ministers’ association determined that they were responsible for Boulder’s civic…
The President and the Patriarch
Vladimir Putin, who after a sham “referendum” completed his aggressive seizure of Crimea, denies he has plans…
Lent: the Annual Catechumenate
Historians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and…
Not Just for Catholics
I am not a Roman Catholic, but I love the churches of Rome. Where else on earth…
Just War Revisited and Revitalized
Every once in a while, a truly special book comes down the theological pike: a book both…
“Forgiveness Sunday” Opens the Door to Orthodox Lent
I miss Ash Wednesday, the Western liturgical churches’ entry into Lent. The ashes on the forehead in…
