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Gargoyle Code

Did you know my Lent book–the Screwtape Letters for Catholics–named The Gargoyle Code is available as an e-book? Just $7.99. Go here. If you want a real book here’s the place to go. Here’s the description: Not since the Screwtape Letters has there been such a devastatingly diabolical collection of correspondence. Master Tempter Slubgrip writes daily [...]

Evo Bloggers

I’m building bridges with Evangelicals. Do you read blogs by Evangelicals? Which are the best and smartest ones? Recommendations in the combox please.

Revolution and Revelation

A spirited conversation has been going on in the combox about the existence of God. I said here that God does not exist–and went on to say, at least he does not exist as we exist. He is, instead, the very ground of all existence. He does not exist so much as he IS existence. [...]

The Vicar on Gay Bishops

Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great [...]

Talk Like C.S.Lewis

Here is my latest article for National Catholic Register–on how C.S.Lewis teaches us to communicate the faith.

I Don’t Believe God Exists

Did that headline getcha? What I mean is that I do not believe God exists in the way that I exist, or in the way that my mother exists or that tree or flower or mosquito exists, or the way the planet Jupiter or the Milky Way or the sand on the seashore exists. It [...]

Judgement Day

A reader has commented that is a lapsed Catholic now an atheist and that he would not want to worship a God who forces people to love him or he will send them to hell to be tortured forever. Here is my reply: Allow me to put it this way: if you blow out the [...]

Gospel Stories, Myths and Legends

On the week before Christmas in 1941 my grandfather was walking with his two sons to market in downtown Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It had snowed the night before and the roads were too icy to drive. That’s why they were walking. As they crossed the river bridge a coal truck turned on to the bridge. The [...]

Holy Mary Mother of God and Mother of Me

I had a Southern Baptist friend who thought it was amusing, when visiting Catholic churches, to wave to the image of Mary and say, “Hi Mary!” When I challenged him on what seemed a mark of disrespect he said cheerily, “Y’all say, ‘Hail Mary’ and ‘Hail’ just means ‘Hi’, so it’s my way of saying [...]

When Was Jesus Born?

I’ve got Taylor Marshall’s new book on my desk and can’t wait to read it. Here’s an excerpt in which he argues that the traditional dates for the birth of Christ are correct.