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Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani

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Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and columnist who specializes in the intersection of faith and culture. Cathleen served on the staff of Sojourners as its Web Editor and Director of New Media from 2011 to 2012, after having been the religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper for a decade. She is now a Featured Writer for the Sojourners website. Cathleen is author of several critically-acclaimed, non-fiction books, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace, The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers. Her most recent book, BELIEBER!: Fame, Faith and the Heart of Justin Bieber, was released in 2011. Cathleen lives in southern California with her husband and son.

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'Girl Rising:' Changing the World, One Story at a Time
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 2 days ago
In her 1968 poem, “The Speed of Darkness,” the late American poet Muriel Rukeyser penned the line, “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”While the medium is different, a new feature-length...
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God Won’t Mind If We Laugh at Ourselves
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 4 days ago
“I find hypocrisy all over our lives – especially mine – and certainly in the church. … I think Jesus loves everybody. Everybody. The second we call somebody a ‘nonbeliever,’ we have put a wall up...
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Yoga As a 'Connection to God'
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 2 weeks 1 day ago
Class began at dusk in a dimly lit studio facing Pacific Coast Highway as the yoga teacher appeared, adjusting the shawl draped around his shoulders, and took his seat on a quilted meditation pillow....
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What Would Jesus Do With An Extra $52 Billion?
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 3 weeks 3 days ago
Many of today’s evangelical Christians seem to be taking to heart the words traditionally attributed to St. Francis of Assisi: “Preach the gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”Or at least...
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Marcus Mumford and the Trouble With Labels
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 6 weeks 3 days ago
Labels can be helpful when, for instance, applied to cans of soup or barrels of toxic waste. But they are less so when affixed to human beings – particularly when labels are meant to summarize,...
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Articles by Cathleen Falsani

The Pastor's Message
November 1, 2012

Author Eugene Peterson has a lot to say about being and doing. And about facing life in our forties and beyond.

My Sabbath
August 1, 2012

The spiritual connection between the slow rhythm of August and the Sabbath.

Chasing the Wild Goose
June 1, 2012

Scripture teaches that the Spirit of God was in that still, small voice. But every now and again the Spirit arrives with flapping wings and honking, too. Like that old gray goose.

'Why I Hate Religion, But Love YouTube'
April 1, 2012

The lesson for me, as the parent of a middle school child, was to pay closer attention.

Waiting to Exhale
February 1, 2012

The apostle writes his letter to folks who are feeling anxious, worried, insecure, and unsettled. They don’t know what the future holds for their lives, the church, their well-being, their community. Sound familiar?

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