Ahhh. Labor Day weekend. A time to reflect on the blessings of our current employment situations. A pause in the schedule to be thankful for meaningful work. And, um, a day off.

The start of football (and fantasy football) season has me skittery in stomach and mind this week, but not nearly as much as the idea that New Orleans could potentially be evacuated and underwater again.

A dedicated man of God had to paint one of our walls bright pink. What was he thinking as he did that?

My initial greeting before kicking off a great blog...

Rule-keeping cannot change the heart. But when the heart is set on Christ, and when Christ is enthroned in the heart, then divine heart surgery takes place, and what the law could not do, the gospel does, and we are truly changed from the inside out.

Struck by the burgeoning number of “Eat This, Not That!” books on the market, I thought I’d share my own controversial two cents on health and nutrition.

Nancy Pelosi bases her views of abortion on St. Augustine. The archbishop of Washington says she is so medieval in her thinking. The archbishop win this one.

Why shouldn’t two adult Christians who happen to be divorced and have fallen in love—why shouldn’t they sleep together? That’s the question a man asked in an email. Here is my answer.

The Archbishop of Armagh asserted not too long ago that “reason” may be applied to Scripture texts that seem to condemn homosexuality so that a different interpretation may be gleaned. Such a notion is flawed on a number of counts.

It's surprising to me that the media hasn't really been talking about the plagiarism scandal surrounding Senator Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 1988 presidential race.

I believe a sense of humor is one of God's gifts to help get us to the finish line. One of the things I learned from writing When Bad Christians Happen to Good People is well stated by humorist Dave Barry. "No matter what happens," Barry writes, "somebody will find a way to take it too seriously