As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and the...

Jon Ortiz’s beatblog, The State Worker, and his users helped force Gov. Schwarzenegger’s hand in making a furlough policy change. State workers in California have to take two furlough days each month as part of an effort to save money. The governor’s office occilated between two d...

posted March 11, 2009 In the age of skyrocketing unemployment, it is good to know that there are still jobs that are hard to fill.Did you know that March 10th is National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers? It seems that the poor dears are very under appreciated these days. Katha Pollitt, wr...

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Excerpt: "Of course, the power of cultural Christianity explains why so many others expect a Christian funeral even as they show no evidence of Christian commitment. The disappearance of this expectation marks the erosion of cultural Christianity. Authentic Christianity set...

This week’s podcast is a joint interview with three of the minds and voices behind CNET’s Buzz Out Loud — Tom Merritt, Natali Del Conte and Jason Howell (Monday co-host Molly Wood was unable to make the interview). Buzz Out Loud may be an audio (and video) podcast, but it utilizes ...

By Carlos SantoscoyMarch 09, 2009 Hawaii senators who had vowed to rescue a stranded gay civil unions bill from a deadlocked committee and pass it this legislative session have begun to backpeddle. House Bill 444, which would grant gay and lesbian couples all the rights of marriage, was marooned on ...

By ERIC GORSKIThe Associated PressMarch 08, 2009 The nation's largest Lutheran denomination will consider allowing individual congregations to choose whether to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, an attempt to avoid the sort of infighting that has threatened to te...

All signs point to a less acrimonious outcome than at Grace Episcopal in 2007By Bill ThompsonStaff writerSunday, March 8, 2009 Thirteen months ago the controversy over allowing openly gay clergy to minister to the faithful literally tore one of the city's oldest churches in two. Led by the Rev. Don ...

Episcopal clergy take lead in staking out progressive positions By Mary Frances SchjonbergMarch 06, 2009 [Episcopal News Service] A survey by Public Religion Research released March 6 shows that mainline Protestant clergy are much more likely to identify themselves as liberal and Democrat than conse...

"Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." Romans 8:37 The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things - tribulation, distress, persecution...