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Catch 23: Why a World with Two Billion Christians In It Stays Such a Mess,...
According to the Pew Research Center, there are just over two billion Christians in the world today. That means roughly one in every three and a half people on the face of the earth professes faith in...
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Catch 23: Why a World with Two Billion Christians In It Stays Such a Mess,...
Click here to read Part I Another Unwritten Rule But why does our banding together as Christians to effect sweeping national and global change strike us as so very unlikely? Perhaps, in our gut,...
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Atheists are Lame
I live in the country, on a one acre “hobby farm” I share with my wife, two teenagers, and a small menagerie of other people’s cast-off animals. We take in the stray dogs and cats our irresponsible...
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The Way God Sees Us – A Mystical Experience
What is a “Mystical Experience? I read a fascinating article recently entitled In These Moments; Mystical Experiences on my Twitter pal Jeff Walker’s blog Mere Observations. Jeff opens the...
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With Laudato Si’, Pope Francis Outmaneuvers Both the Left and the Right
Laudato Si’, One Year Later May 24, 2016 marked the one year anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home. Unlike many pundits who...
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Catholic and Vegetarian – What’s the Connection? Part I
My Happy Catholic Vegetarian Married Life As I approach the midpoint of my fifth decade on earth, I am extraordinarily lucky to find myself, at the deepest, most grounded root of my being, a very...
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Catholic and Vegetarian – What’s The Connection? Part II
If you missed “Catholic and Vegetarian — What’s the Connection? Part I”, click here to start at the beginning. Vegetarian Saints Now, you may object that Catholic social teaching makes no...
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Sola Fide, 500 Years Later – How Wide is the Divide?
Sola Fide I am not a theologian, or even most days a very effective apologist. I am simply a devout Catholic who loves Jesus, and who does his best each day to stay faithful to the teaching of the One...
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The Atheist Heart of Darkness
In the wake of my previous essay, “Atheists are Lame,” I spent five solid days defending belief in God on Twitter. This is the fourth time this year I’ve waded in to do battle with Twitter atheists....
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G. K. Chesterton on the Lunacy of Self-Esteem
As a devout Catholic father of two kids in public schools, I have often found myself at odds with an educational curriculum that presents to kids as “fact” a worldview I consider not only incorrect...
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