Quote Of The Day

Thanks to Fr. Scott Russell on FB for this one. ‎”Dear Tea Party: If you don’t want to participate in so-called entitlement programs, maybe you should consider joining the Old Order Amish (they are exempt from Social Security!). That could be a nice, quaint life. No, wait, that probably wouldn’t work because you’d have to share your land and possessions with the community, which might...

Bishop Pierre Whalon – Why I Am Not An Atheist

A really good answer from the Bishop, published in the Huffington Post Where is the evidence for God? Well, by definition, there isn’t any. If you could see God in a telescope or electron microscope, it wouldn’t be God. Couldn’t be. That would violate the theological ground rules that the 17th-century Christian developers of the scientific method set up: You cannot explain the universe by...

Dear @DavidLimbaugh – Christians In America Are Not Being Persecuted

Dear Mr. Limbaugh, Earlier today on Twitter, you questioned, and Ann Coulter agreed, how anyone could disagree with the premise of your book “Persecution” based on the Newsweek article about Michele Bachmann.  Just to refresh your memory, here is the screen capture:       To which I responded that since 80% of Americans self-identify as Christians, claims of persecution make you look...

Flashy Youth Ministry Programs Ineffective? Surely No…

It seems that our good friends in the UK are discovering that Youth Ministry programs that are long on flash and short on substance are ineffective and actually harmful to a teen’s faith development. “Young youth leaders are cheap but we need people who can model true discipleship at every age – to help young people grow up in the faith,” he said. “You don’t have to be a certain type of...

The Tea Party’s Economic End Times Nihilism

Via MotherJones: What we’re witnessing in the debt ceiling crisis reveals what the Tea Party has been all along:  not an embrace of the Constitution as a foundation for good government but its appropriation as a weapon in a nihilistic effort by ideologues to disable and dismantle government with the object of transferring generations’ worth of public wealth into private hands. Political theorist...