When I was in graduate school, I made the off hand comment to my roommate about how McDonald’s runs Filet-o-Fish specials every year during Lent. My roommate, a life long Methodist, was totally surprised by this revelation. He...
Read MoreCompendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Chapter 7 Once I assigned chapter seven of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church to an upper level theology class. After reading it and taking a quiz, one of my...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post by Jim Caccamo of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA. If you used the internet on Wednesday, you probably noticed that something...
Read MoreBeth Haile’s recent post on Portraying Working Women Positively in the Media prodded me to finally write about what I see as a complementary problem: the depictions of men in the media. As I see it, there are roughly five...
Read MoreWhile there are lots of factors that go into successful education, the recent study from the Center for Public Education notes the importance of parents. Not surprisingly, parental involvement helps students do better in...
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