St. Francis de Sales is the patron saint of journalists, and that’s fine. I have nothing against him. But I’ve always thought it should have been St. Thomas the Apostle. I think of doubting Thomas as the world’s first journalist, determined to get confirmation for rumors he heard floating around the neighborhood about his former rabbi and a mysterious
resurrection....
It could just be my kink—in the idiom of Christine Emba’s new book—but Rethinking Sex kept making me think about dessert. The way Washington Post columnist Emba describes today’s sex and dating reminds me of the SnackWells effect....
Not long ago, I saw a news story about a New Zealand college student who had been found dead in his dormitory room. It has troubled me ever since. What made the story especially jarring was that the coroner estimated that the young man had been dead for about eight weeks before he was discovered....
Is it possible to both love and hate the church at one and the same time? Bob LaRochelle has had a lot of experience with different churches. Raised a Roman Catholic, he was ordained a Permanent Deacon in that church. After a period of intense soul-searching, he left the Catholic Church and embarked on a career in ordained Protestant ministry...
According to the gospels, Peter denied knowing Jesus three times after Jesus’s arrest before His crucifixion. On the third occasion, as the rooster crowed, Jesus turned and looked at Peter [Luke 22:61]. That look reminded Peter that Jesus had said to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”...
