Let’s start 2017 off with a big ol’ pffft to 2016

So last year, I made three resolutions. I am a big fan of resolutions, eve if I am not that dedicated to actually keeping them. For 2016,  told myself I would: Learn to play the banjo Find a church Read the Bible cover-to-cover In fact, referencing the Meat Loaf song above, one out of three ain’t …

A little more on Damion Suomi

His music has so much Bible in it, I love it. Sounds like he grew up in church, too.

I once knocked doors for Jesus and THIS? Is funny.

And thanks, DickG., for the giggle.

Check out where people attend church

Church attendance tends to be lower in rich countries.

Here’s one answer to religious division

The Tri-Faith Initiative in Omaha, Neb., is building a campus that will serve as a synagogue, mosque, and church. You can listen to a story about it here. And thanks, Jac, for the link.

Seventy years and a day after the bombing of Hiroshima:

This is what the Rev. George Zabelka, the Air Force chaplain who blessed the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said: As a Catholic chaplain I watched as the Boxcar, piloted by a good Irish Catholic pilot, dropped the bomb on Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, the center of Catholicism in Japan. I never preached a single …

In light of the Charleston church shooting:

  As we grieve the loss at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME Church,  a new report out from Violence Policy Center retires the Blood-Gargling NRA’s® canard that the only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Instead, the report says guns are rarely used for self …

To people who want to slap Caitlyn Jenner with the Bible…

As a review: What did Jesus say about homosexuality? Nothing. So let’s review what Jesus said about transgendered folk:         See what I did there? He. Said. Nothing. So we don’t need to judge and our comments aren’t that interesting, are they? Those predictable wing-nuts who cherry-pick Bible verses for a living …

In which I disagree with The Hill website:

The headline is “Mixing Christianity and Politics Is Killing the Church,” and I get the point the author is making. I do. The piece is exploring Texas’ so-called Pastor Protection bill, which would “protect” clergy in that state from performing rites and rituals for people they don’t want to, but mostly the gays. Mixing Christianity …

“Unaffiliated” doesn’t mean “atheist”

Leftover has pointed that out several times, most lately with this Washington Post analysis of the 2014 General Social Survey. Basically, Americans are staying away from church in record numbers, but they continue to participate in some religious practices, such as prayer. From the Post story: The stability of prayer contrasts sharply with erosion on …