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So I’m spending time with my dad, who is 83, in the ICU unit at Stanford Hospital. Without going into the gory details, he’s in bad shape. The only thing keeping him alive, I’m convinced, is that he’s one tough, depression-raised, millionaire-by-his-own-bootstraps, mother-effing son of a bitch. I’ve seen more than one doctor look at [...]

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In a story in the Edmonton Journal, a professional football player credited God with his miraculous escape from a fire.
Albert [...]

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The legalization of same-sex marriage in California has caused, predictably enough, concern throughout most of the Christian community. One of my favorite riffs comes from a Pat Robertson-esque World Net Daily column by Bob Unruh.
He quotes Concerned Women for America call to prayer to battle the plague of gay marriage.
“Prayer is the key to this [...]

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They live among us. Check this out.

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Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, recently spoke on MSNBC about the life and death of one of my favorite journalists, Tim Russert. After talking about what a great man Russert was, McCarrick offered an explanation on why the Lord would allow him to die in the prime of his life: “God [...]

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I went to heard Roman Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson of Australia speak tonight at a Voice of the Faithful meeting in Orange County. He’s the single bishop out of more than 1,000 (I don’t know the precise number) who has actually challenged the way church hierarchy’s dealt with victims of clergy sexual abuse. Not coincidentally, [...]

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When I was considering writing an essay for the Los Angeles Times about my lost of faith, a good friend in ministry begged me not to do it. He thought the fallout would be too much. Talking about religion was a dangerous thing. But I felt like writing about my spiritual journey was something I [...]

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