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Religion and Spirituality

For me religion and spirituality go together. Religion is the body, spirituality the inner life. I have stayed in my faith. I am Roman Catholic because as a very young lad I studied my faith and it doctrines and histor…
Avoid Politics? Read the Bible!

The other evening in our study group, I made the off-handed remark that I wasn’t all that political. Once the ‘belly-laughter’ subsided -- three or four are Facebook friends of mine, and they know bette…
God, Religion and Tradition: Faith as We Grow Older

I have been interested in God all my life and as far back as I can remember, trying to develop some sort of relationship with this greatest of mysteries -- which is common enough I guess in the over all population. As we…
Freedom to Believe

There are many different ways to look at freedom. One important freedom is right to follow one faith without interference from the government. It is a freedom hard won by our founding fathers. It also implies that…
Religion and Relationship: Knowing God versus Knowing About God

“Christianity isn’t a religion—it’s a relationship.” Would you agree with this statement? Specifically, it’s a relationship with Jesus Christ. This idea is supposed to be the character…
Suicide by Faith

If I was on the fence about why there was a reason to come back and start blogging my usual tirades against religion, I was given the final push over the edge. Earlier this week, I had a friend attempt suicide due to unt…
Paul Ryan on Religious Values and Government

"A person's faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private. So to me, using my Catholic faith, we call it the social magisterium, which is how do you apply the doctrine of your teaching into yo…
Interfaith Relationships: Would You Convert for Love?

[This is reposted as part of our Best-Of Revelife Week. It was originally posted on November 5, 2009.] I read an interesting article yesterday which reported that Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the infamous millionaire D…
Where Would You Be if No One Introduced You to God?

Hello everybody, some of you may know me as a silly Atheist; but I'm sure most of you have no idea who I am, which is fine. I grew up without any formal introduction to religion. While I did have a brief immersion (mor…
Religion, Faith and Two-Party Politics

By Sam Mahlstadt at Creative Theology This is a guest post by a friend of mine, Jonny Craig. He’s much smarter than me, regarding theology, politics, and well…he’s just plain smarter than me. I am…