On Bloggingheads com which provides two people an extended--very extended given the digital age--opportunity to converse nbsp They invited me to have a conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite a UCC theologian at Chicago Theological Seminary and we covered the so-called War on Christmas the

Cambridge MA Like many of you I am sure I was surprised that the Senate actually voted to repeal Don rsquo t Ask Don rsquo t Tell before ending its lame-duck session In retrospect it seems as if the long discussions and testimonies seem to have made a difference and a few skilled political le

I don t know if any of our readers are interested in the new Tron film but I went to see it Friday and I have to say it has one of the more compelling images of original sin of recent times nbsp Jeff Bridges plays this computer programmer father-figure who creates a program Clu it s an acron

Pax Christi Ireland is one of the smaller sections of Pax Christi International Its general secretary Tony D rsquo Costa spoke of its work during a recent visit to New York to attend a series of NGO at the United Nations He stayed with us at Dan Berrigan rsquo s community in Lower Manhattan Beca

No as Stephen Colbert tells us it s worse than that Jesus is for the poor

Check out this story from The Economist about the Catholic Church in China and the increased friction between the Vatican and communist officials From the article THE Catholic church in China according to a state-affiliated Catholic newspaper Tianguang has never enjoyed the sort of ldquo p