Rod Dreher/Columnist I spent two months this summer as a Templeton Foundation journalism fellow in science and religion, attending Cambridge University seminars on various aspects of the dialogue, historical and contemporary, between science and religion. It was surprising for me… Continue reading

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." – Benjamin Franklin I would not mind doing both. However, it is always for someone else to evaluate… Continue reading

In recent months, Wauwatosa has seen cemetery headstones, city stop signs and the Hoyt Park pool house damaged. But this time, vandals have struck a new target: The statue at the entrance to St. Joseph Congregation now features a headless… Continue reading

Pope freed from cast, says wrist still 'lazy' AP – Sun Aug 23, 1:25 pm ET   AP CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI made his first public appearance since having the cast removed from his broken right wrist, joking Sunday that his… Continue reading

OK, not George Carlin's famed "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television," but this'll still be fun. In the F&R Forum, minusRusty links to HealthNewsReview.org publisher Gary Schwitzer's Seven Words You Shouldn't Use in Medical Journalism (i.e. "miracle"). Rusty… Continue reading

It’s no mystery how Nonbelievers stay moral without God –May 24, 2009 – by John Shook It’s really no mystery how nonreligious people are moral too. Sill, religious people just can’t help but make a big mystery out of this… Continue reading

This covers about the middle of 8-13 till this morning, 8-22. It is a record of my tweets in Twitter if anyone is interested. If no one is interested, that is OK. I need to keep track! How many of… Continue reading

"We know what we are, but we know not what we may be."  – Shakespeare. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall… Continue reading

(AP) – 1 hour ago MANCHESTER, Conn. — An appeals court has reversed a federal judge's order that religious displays be removed from a Connecticut store that offers postal services. In a decision released Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court… Continue reading

Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll, Ap Religion Writer – Thu Aug 20, 6:48 pm ET NEW YORK – Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic… Continue reading