Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 93

What’s Wrong With Pizza Pie America?

Ironic that a Mom and Pop pizza parlor on Main Street USA becomes the center of a media firestorm over religious freedom. The Christian owners of Memories Pizza have been drawn into the firefight because of their sincerely held beliefs. They’ve had death threats and had to close down. Who would have thought it: in [Read More...]

Twelve Ways Liberals Lie

Take a moment sometime and read the progressive press and study their lies. Here are twelve techniques they use. See if you can spot them. 1. They Play the Victim - The devil always plays the victim. Poor devil and his angels. They were cast out of heaven. Boo hoo. It was all a misunderstanding don’t you know? How [Read More...]

Countering the Anti-Indiana Lunacy

What troubles me most about the hysteria surrounding the recent religious freedom legislation in Indiana is the amount of ignorance about the issue. Are Americans really so stupid? Are they so easily swayed by a bit of propaganda and shouting? I’m afraid so, and the visceral, emotional reaction to events is not simply a symptom [Read More...]

The Call from Hollywood!

After I left the Anglican church I trained as a screenwriter and part of the patter in the class was, “You get yourself out there. You connect and network. Then out of the blue you get the call from Hollywood. When the call comes you better be prepared to get up and go!” Yesterday I [Read More...]

Why Are Catholics Against Gay Weddings and Women Priests?

First we should get some things clear: Catholics are not misogynistic. We’re not in favor of discrimination. We don’t “hate fags” We don’t think women are dumb and inferior We don’t judge homosexuals just because they’re homosexual. Sure, there may be some Catholics who are female hating, gay bashing bigots. You’ll find people like that [Read More...]

Holy Week: Priests, Power and Penitence

In Holy Week so many aspects and attributes of the Catholic faith come  thundering in together. This is because the week in our Lord’s life was a summary of all that he was and is and came to accomplish. Today I am in Charleston to share in the Chrism Mass. At this Mass the priests [Read More...]

Holy Week: Tribe, Trauma, Transaction

Do you remember reading William Golding’s Lord of the Flies? A group of civilized English schoolboys are stranded on a desert island and soon turn savage. They form a tribe to hunt, and then their child like fears evolve into a primitive religion. They soon project their anger and frustration on the boys who are oddballs [Read More...]

Can a Woman be a Patriarch?

My latest article for National Catholic Register asks whether patriarchy is a bad thing and whether you can have Christianity without patriarchs, popes and papas. Modernists would argue that all gender identities are inventions from social circumstances. In other words, what we call a “man” or a “woman” is defined by learned customs and conventional [Read More...]

FaithWorks! – Lent 5

FaithWorks! is my free weekly newsletter on the practical practice of the Catholic faith. This week’s is a bit late, but it is now published for the fifth week of Lent. Go here to read. Help evangelize by sharing on social media!

What does Myth have to do with the New Evangelization?

The talk I gave last Spring in New York at the offices of First Things has been posted online here. The lecture is about myth and evangelization. What is myth? What is a faith story? Why does it matter? A myth is a story that incarnates universal truths in such a way that the audience [Read More...]