“After the Boston Pilgrims won the first World Series in 1903, the team was renamed the Puritans in 1905 and 1906.”
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Author: Chris Walton
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Religious blogs go mainstream.
The Dallas Morning News discovers religion blogs.
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Alto olympics.
“Some alto parts you couldn’t make interesting if you sung them while performing the Dance of the Seven Veils in an Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with two tons of lemon Jell-O.”
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Democracy for Dummies.
TV news nixes “gubernatorial.”
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God-talk on the couch.
“Because the basis of Yair Caspi’s concept is that all of us — secular, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox — worship idols of some sort, the student must identify his idol and what he sacrifices to this false god.”
There’s a big difference between a conservative and a religious revolutionary.
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Making theology work.
“Does anybody have any new ideas about what we human beings might make of ourselves in light of this god question?”
Sex outside of marriage.
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Who took my statute of limitations?
Suing “over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt.”
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Catholic crisis.
“The rejection of women lies at the heart of much of the church’s twisted and confusing sexual practice.”