Sally Thomas

Thank heaven for the Rosary CompanionTalking Rosary.And they say it’s the perfect First Communion gift.Now that we’re feeling better, everybody sing!via Janet C. Many thanks for sending along this true curiosity[Rating: . . . . Continue Reading »

Okay, so you can’t actually buy this. But it is kind of neat, in a Scando-innovative way.Hello? Lego?(via Strange Herring) . . . . Continue Reading »

Former Caelum et Terra editor Daniel Nichols now works as an iconographer and a leader of iconography workshops. Choose from his gallery, which includes images of the Lord, the Blessed Mother, and various saints; or commission a custom work.If you were thinking, for instance, of purchasing a statue . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m a dog. Dogs had nothing to do with the Fall. We’re not ashamed. We don’t make aprons out of fig leaves. And we really don’t like wearing sweaters. But we love you, and if this makes you feel better, then whatever.Actually, I’m not sure that you’re not God, but . . . . Continue Reading »

Guy in striped shirt: “There I was, passed out on the beach, when these people came up and started witnessing to me. The next thing I knew, I was wearing these shoes . . . “So many styles to choose from! There’s the “Many Names of Jesus” lo-top (in pink!) Or what about . . . . Continue Reading »

What would happen, I asked myself, if I googled the phrase “Christian Shoes?”This here is the “Deception” shoe for women. That’s “Deception,” as in “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” . . . . Continue Reading »

This display spotted at my local Bi-Lo grocery store:Easter Pretty BarbieJesus, God’s Son. My teenager reports that when you press a button, He intones the Our Father, among other things, in what she describes as a “hunky” voice. Hear Him speak John 3:16! Mary Messenger of Faith. . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s hard to know what to say about the Reverend Dr. Katharine Ragsdale, the new president of the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Actually, the problem is not that there’s nothing to say, but that Rev. Ragsdale says it all herself. Here’s an excerpt . . . . Continue Reading »

Ronald was staring with wild incomprehension at the toaster, which was stubbornly refusing to relinquish the toast. This sentence, from British writer Alice Thomas Ellis’ 1990 novel, The Inn at the Edge of the World , may well win my personal award for Best-Ever Pithy Character Sketch. In this . . . . Continue Reading »

In a Doonesbury cartoon of recent vintage, Zipper, nephew to the 1960s slacker Zonker Harris, sits in a college class, his laptop open before him, giving every impression of industrious note-taking: Tap tap tappity tap tap. “Dude,” a classmate instant-messages him. “The professor’s calling . . . . Continue Reading »