Postcards from Palookaville

This week's Mortification of Spin is up. Our guest is Paul Wolfe, author of My God is True and Setting Our Sights On Heaven . Paul is a pastor in the P.C.A. and a cancer survivor, so the conversation focuses on matters to do with mortality, facing eternity and pastoral responses to the same. What...

This week's Mortification of Spin is up. Our guest is Paul Wolfe, author of My God is True and Setting Our Sights On Heaven . Paul is a pastor in the P.C.A. and a cancer survivor, so the conversation focuses on matters to do with mortality, facing eternity and pastoral responses to the same. What...

In the latest edition of First Things , friend David Mills (one of a small group of loyal Roman Catholic readers of Ref21) comments on an article in the left wing Brooklyn paper, Indypendent , about 'transgender rock bands,' that the word trans now appears as trans*. The Indy explains this on the...

In the latest edition of First Things , friend David Mills (one of a small group of loyal Roman Catholic readers of Ref21) comments on an article in the left wing Brooklyn paper, Indypendent , about 'transgender rock bands,' that the word trans now appears as trans*. The Indy explains this on the...

The Rev. Gustavo Monteiro has recently been ordained by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil to work under the oversight of the Session at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Ambler, Pa. in reaching out to the Brazilian community in the Philadelphia area. We are very excited by this new venture...

The Rev. Gustavo Monteiro has recently been ordained by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil to work under the oversight of the Session at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Ambler, Pa. in reaching out to the Brazilian community in the Philadelphia area. We are very excited by this new venture...

As you can see, advance publicity is already being leaked for the new epic Alliance-sponsored biopic, Witchfinder General: The Todd Pruitt Story . Directed by the Puppetmaster, it looks fantastic, with its scenes of violent book burnings ('Please, I'd rather you didn't use church money to buy Jesus...

As you can see, advance publicity is already being leaked for the new epic Alliance-sponsored biopic, Witchfinder General: The Todd Pruitt Story . Directed by the Puppetmaster, it looks fantastic, with its scenes of violent book burnings ('Please, I'd rather you didn't use church money to buy Jesus...

....when Katie Couric is asking you the hardball questions and making you look stupid. On this week's MoS , the team takes on a challenge set by a listener: to comment on the recent interview between Katie Couric and Pastor Carl Lentz without using the words 'utterly' or 'ridiculous.' As Todd...

....when Katie Couric is asking you the hardball questions and making you look stupid. On this week's MoS , the team takes on a challenge set by a listener: to comment on the recent interview between Katie Couric and Pastor Carl Lentz without using the words 'utterly' or 'ridiculous.' As Todd...