Christian Faith

The president at prayer

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 February 2011

Was President Obama’s address at the National Prayer Breakfast candid, or calculated?

What a shipwreck can do

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 April 2010

Pope Benedict has been in Malta over the weekend, and gave his usual compelling addresses at the events scheduled there. But it’s interesting to note what he said in brief remarks to journalists traveling with him. He focused on the role St. Paul played in bringing Christianity to Malta, and emphasized the shipwreck that brought him there.

AP changes Easter story

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 April 2010

This is interesting. Normally, a major news outlet will update a news story by either writing a new and more current one, or adding an ‘Update:’ blurb at the bottom of the original online. The Associated Press just ran a piece over Easter weekend about President Obama using his Saturday radio address as an Easter address. Now they've revised the Easter story. But Jesus Christ still figures prominently in it.