11+ hour, 59+ min ago  (584+ words) Healthy Leaders Create Lasting Impact. A review of Multiplier by Dave Ferguson. I believe this book will be part of Dave Ferguson's legacy to Christian and church leaders. It provides profound insight into leading well across every dimension'from physical health…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago  (575+ words) The Body Does Not Lie Holy Week insists on the body. Not theology in the abstract. Not doctrine at a safe remove. The body'the weight in the chest, the fight for air, the precise physical reality of what it means…...

21+ hour, 46+ min ago  (412+ words) Was Jesus a pagan god? During Easter week it has become commonplace for skeptics to trot out old arguments from the history of religions school (die Religionsgeschichtlicheschule) about Easter being analogous to, or derived from, older pagan myths and cultic…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (771+ words) Scattered throughout my hometown of Cranston R.I., where I compose articles for the Catholic Bard, are little old mini cemeteries. They are very obscure and sometimes hardly noticeable unless you just happen to be looking at the right place at the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (977+ words) One of the most poignant moments of the Good Friday service for me is when the acolyte stands before the candelabrum during the Tenebrae and extinguishes the next-to-last flame. There's no organ prelude, no chit-chat about going to brunch afterward....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (408+ words) I want to thank all of you who heard the conference messages ENCOUNTERING THE RISEN CHRIST: THEN AND NOW and emailed me about how powerfully and deeply it impacted you. It's humbling to deliver a message at a live conference…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (895+ words) If the story ended with Jesus executed as a criminal and dead in a tomb, we still would have reason to believe in a God of love. Our very existence, as well as the existence of the reality we inhabit,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1343+ words) Henry Karlson, after studying early church history and theology, and talking to a close friend who could answer many of his questions, became a Byzantine Catholic in 1995. Because of his interests, he eventually pursued graduate studies in theology. He has…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (327+ words) While all Christians should take up their cross and follow Jesus, sometimes the Cross picks us in various ways, such as during our later years. Jesus had a contentious relationship with the leaders of the Jewish faith throughout his ministry....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (242+ words) Today I was trying to explain to my granddaughter what the Easter Bunny has to do with Easter. It wasn't easy. As I have said here before, I consider there to be two distinct holidays toward the end of December:…...