Territorial Bloggings

Well, now, isn’t this — Letters Reveal Mother Teresa’s Secret — interesting?
A quote: “…it has emerged that Mother Teresa was so doubtful of her own faith that she feared being a hypocrite…”
It strikes me as fascinating both because it reveals the ways in which individual faith truly is a battleground for the forces of [...]

Fascinating statistics in this article/paper on the levels of “organic atheism” & the like.
Somehow I think Bp. Giertz would be aggrieved by Sweden’s #1 ranking, and Scandinavia taking 3 of the top 4 spots…
The top 10:
1. Sweden (up to 85% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)
2. Vietnam
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Japan
6. Czech Republic
7. Finland
8. France
9. South Korea
10. Estonia (up [...]

Sometimes, it would seem, Satan doesn’t feel the need to be subtle. This article, about Tom Cruise & the Scientology cult, bears this out quite nicely.
It’s too bad we can’t predict when the end will come, because “Cruise as Christ” would surely seem like a pretty clear sign.
-ghp

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is quite possibly my favorite new show of the Fall TV season. Aaron Sorkin, for all his faults, is a gifted writer. His first show, Sports Night, was an outstanding show that ended well before its time, and while I didn’t like the political slant of The West Wing [...]