Along about 1970, when I was in junior high, A new friend invited me to hang out at his house. Another invitation followed, to go

Anyone but me notice the death of the religious right last week?  Apparently, the religious right had started feeling poorly after Mitt Romney took Ohio

I believe the Christian Reformed Church in North America and the Reformed Church in America should merge.  Please tell me why they shouldn’t.  I mean

The other day James Bratt posted a careful, scholarly review of Calvinism and Politics on this site.  Here’s more, neither careful nor scholarly. . .

One Good Friday I heard an NPR caller say something to the effect that she could never accept Christianity because it was based on a

“If the Messiah had come,” the rabbi asked, “would the world be the way that it is?”  How would you answer the rabbi’s question?  He

As hard as it may be for anyone who knows me to believe, somehow, when I was in my high school production of The Music

It’s been over a week since the Obama administration blinked and came up with a way out of their self-inflicted fight with the Roman Catholic

Maggie Smith, imperious as the Dowager Countess of Grantham, peered at the hapless vicar across from her and pronounced, “You cannot imagine that we would