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A Prayer Experiment

Fellow Patheos blogger Bob Seidensticker on the atheist channel is taking part in a prayer experiment, and when I first heard about it I thought it had to be pretty stupid, and said so. I thought it was one of those “God is a vending machine” ideas that you put a prayer in, push the request button [...]

Service and Sacrifice

Some time ago I received an email from an older Englishman who told me this story. He said, “When I started working at the bank in the 1960s, every Monday morning at the start of work my team leader would gather us in the conference room for a team meeting and he would close the [...]

Call Me Amish

I admit it. There are a lot of things in modern, suburban America that I just don’t get. I have recognized that my blog readership increases if I discuss politics. Mark Shea’s good at this. He rumbles on about Mitt Romney and Republicans who torture and Democrats who want to change marriage and abort babies. [...]

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Would you like to join me and Dr Marcellino D’Ambrosio on a wonderful trip to the Holy Land? We leave just after Christmas. Learn more about it here or send me an email at dlongenecker1@gmail.com.

Catholicism Pure and Simple

Some years ago I was asked to write a simple explanation of the Catholic faith for the Catholic Truth Society in England. Eventually I put it all together into a single volume and it was published as Christianity Pure and Simple. When the rights returned to me last year I decided to re-write, tighten it [...]

Listening to God

This is one of the articles from my new weekly, free e-newsletter. Go here if you would like to read the rest of the newsletter. Use the form in the right sidebar to subscribe. Listening to God If someone tells you that God speaks to them do you think they’re likely to be a little [...]

Chust For Nice

The little Norman church of St John the Baptist, Yaverland, Isle of Wight. I was Rector here for six very happy years. The church is situated next to Yaverland Manor, where my patron Hon. Mrs Sheila Monk lived. Her father in law was a patron of the pre-Raphaelite painters and the house was full of [...]

Immaculate Mary for a Protestant

OK, so I’m just a poor convert right, who even after sixteen years being a Catholic am still struggling to understand some things. I was prompted a week or so ago to begin my day as soon as I wake up to say the Morning Offering…which goes, “O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary [...]

Atheist Swarm

I don’t know what the regular readers make of it when the atheists swarm to this blog. Apparently there are various hang outs for atheists and when somebody spots a red flag on a theist’s blog they put a note up at the forum and the aggressive atheists swarm. If the regular readers are bothered [...]

This Cheered Me Up!

Sometimes keeping this blog going is rather disheartening. I have so many other projects and have so much buzzing in my life, and I am wanting the readership to be increasing all the time (like every blogger does) and wonder what I must do to keep the life of it going and think of quitting. [...]