Every weeknight, sometime between 9:30 and 10:45 p.m., my husband will stand and say, “I’m heading up.” He climbs the stairs, stops in the bathroom, and gets...
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Surf Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (Self-released, 2015) Much of the buzz about Surf, the indie debut from musical collective The Social...
Is anti-Catholicism again becoming mainstream in America? Catholic ridicule is fair game these days for comedians and artists, for Broadway shows and talk...
“That’s Jesus, Mama!” shouted my cousin’s exuberant daughter, Claire. Her mother was reading to her not from the gospels, but from the climactic scene of The...
A couple years ago, when Jon’s daughter tried out for the local club soccer team, she was placed on the B team. “Kayla had been the star of her rec team the...
When it comes to sex, no means no. That’s just common sense. Or is it? Flip the question for a second: What means yes? Does getting undressed mean yes...
Online social activism isn’t limited to the under-35 set. There’s one older leader who has become famous for it: Pope Francis. Over...
Inventing a Christian America By Steven K. Green (Oxford, 2015) Teaching the history of religion I frequently have to wave my students off from...
The scuttlebutt around Washington is that Pope Francis wanted to come to the United States next week by walking across the border from Mexico, but that...
You know you’re in for an interesting conversation when a lifelong Catholic says that getting to know and love Islam helped her develop a deep knowledge and...
