The Church Has Won

A review of new research on youth spirituality has me rethink the gloom and doom of the mainline Protestant Church. The Christian Century has a review of Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults that includes this nugget (h/t Nathan on Facebook): Drawing on sociologist N. Jay Demerath’s thesis that “liberal Protestantism’s [...]

Order, Chaos, and Jesus

What does the Joker and Luke Skywalker have in common?  They both oppose order: be it rational order in Gotham City, or the Empire’s New Order. But don’t take my word for it. When two blogs that I follow type up very similar posts, I have to wonder if they are reading each other (actually, [...]

Christian Digg? Anyone?

Went to add a “digg” button to my arsenal of web pandering, and realized something odd: there is no religion/spirituality section on Digg.com, the popular link-sharing website. Politics and news, certainly, but no religion/spirituality. I even searched the offbeat section to no avail. So, I figured someone else musta done something about this, wrote a [...]