Memo to Obama

by | Dec 31, 2008 | Opinion

The January/February issue of Tikkun magazine, one of the most important journals of the spiritual left, features a series of “Memos to Obama” from a host of innovators, philosophers and holy rascals including yours truly. I urge you to subscribe to Tikkun...

Bits and bytes from biblical archaeology

by | Dec 30, 2008 | Opinion

While executive editor Johnny Pierce takes a few days off, I’ll be posting an extra blog or two. Today I thought I’d point to some important archaeological finds that may not make it into the popular press.In Israel, where Israel has chosen to pound the...

Training ‘Ministry Entrepreneurs’

by | Dec 30, 2008 | Opinion

A new group of ministers is emerging on the scene. I call these folks “ministry entrepreneurs.”   These are folks who have a particular vision for ministry and have not been able (or willing) to find a way to pursue it in traditional ecclesial structures. This may be...

Songs of the Stone Angels

by | Dec 30, 2008 | Opinion

A wrong turn put me on a street that dead-ended into one of Louisville’s Catholic cemeteries I’d not visited before. I took it as an opportunity to pay my respects for these unknown citizens from days gone by. With my car in low gear I began to wend my way through the...

Marley and B

by | Dec 29, 2008 | Opinion

Marley was a dog made famous by journalist John Grogan, who made a tidy living writing columns about his yellow lab’s incorrigible but endearing qualities, and then turned them into a best-selling book called Marley and Me. The book then became a movie, which...