The school board in Oregon’s Onionville School District has ordered librarians to pull The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from its library shelves following a petition by parents concerned about the religious content of the children’s classic. Teachers have been told not to use the book in their curriculum pending a complete review of [...]

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John and I come at blogging from slightly different angles & have been trying out which works best for the site (and the benefit of you, dear readers). Long ago, he told me to stop using the categories as if they were tags and linked me to some very helpful sites about tagging & such. [...]

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I love the irony. But how to interpret this? Am I naughty for neglecting my religion feeds?

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FYI: The 80th edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up at the Jesus Myth. I haven’t had a chance to look at this one yet, so let me know if you all find any especially intriguing posts.  I’m looking forward to reading them over a steaming hot cup of Joe sweetened with a [...]

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The relationship between technology and religion fascinates me.  Here, a college ministry director for a Presbyterian Church in L.A. writes about the opportunities and challenges of youth ministry in a Facebook age: Who hasn’t gone online and seen one of their student’s provocative profiles? This is a devastating blow to any youth worker, and a [...]

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This one’s for John. On NPR the other morning, I caught the last piece of this report and it got me thinking. I’ve always said that “funerals are for the living” and so I really don’t find the practice of having funerals for pets all that weird. As one of the interviewees said, Their grief [...]

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Perhaps the only time you’ll see me advocating televangelism.  Check out this article in the WaPo on an extremely popular wave of young Muslim televangelists that are stealing the spotlight from angry old imams.  Quoth the article: A Muslim televangelist not much older than herself, in a stylish goatee and Western clothes, Masoud, 29, was [...]

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I didn’t like Romney before. I’m close to despising him now. In a bid to take the spotlight off of Huckabee, he has extended the full length of his shallow platitudes to fellow western monotheists–most especially to patriotic American monotheists who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind. [...]

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I know that this is a topic that can in no way be done justice in the space of just one blog post & I hope that John & our readers will continue the subject at hand in the future. Cars Continuing in the vein of WWJD, over at GetReligion, tmatt brings up the subject [...]

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A recent article in the NYT about the history of marriage and a possible solution going forward. This subject is close to my heart, as I was married out of the Church and yet it changed my family’s entire relationship to my husband (now they talk to him…), but I really think it’s not a [...]

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