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Patheos is an inclusive online media platform that presents information and insights from a wide range of religious and secular viewpoints, without aligning with any particular denomination or political stance. Since its inception in May 2009, the site initially focused on educating visitors about different religions through a comprehensive reference library and peer-reviewed materials covering 27 diverse global religions and worldviews. Today, it has evolved to feature over 450 blogs organized into eleven "Faith Channels." These channels provide commentary and news on various subjects such as politics, institutions, culture, sacred texts, history, lifestyle, entertainment, family dynamics, and business. Patheos stands as the largest English-language site dedicated to religion and spirituality globally, with its Catholic, Progressive Christian, Nonreligious, and Pagan channels being the most prominent online spaces for their respective communities.

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And The Rain Will Wash It Away

15 hours ago | patheos.com | Mary Pezzulo

(A caution to my more sensitive readers: this story involves an injured animal, and a gun.)The heat wave ended– not in fire, not in ice, but in steam. The temperature dropped from ninety-five with a heat index in the three digits, to the high eighties and rainy every few hours. The rain made the earth simmer like a pot of rice. In between rains, Adrienne and I went outside. I pulled weeds, and she played with the cats. The Dodgers did not come back, and they will not be coming back.
The Cotton Castle Cliff

1 day ago | patheos.com | Ben Witherington

Hierapolis has an unusual natural feature— calcium carbonate cliffs. You can see these cliffs from a great distance on the highway as you are driving down the Lycus Valley. In the 20th century this became a major tourist attraction with hotels built right next to these cliffs. Fortunately, the government intervened, and had them removed.
Is God A Good Father?

2 days ago | patheos.com | Karl J. Forehand

Excerpt from the book Campfires in the Desert: A Deconstruction Travel GuideCopyright © 2025 by Karl Forehand Is God a Good Father? “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” – Francis Bacon The Scriptures (particularly those in the New Testament) were written by people who often portrayed God as a parent using the term Father. If God is Father and if He is love, then His love for His children must at least be better than the love I have for my children.
How Mobile Were The Ancients?

2 days ago | patheos.com | Ben Witherington

There used to be a time when skeptical scholars asserted that it is unlikely Paul travelled as much as Acts suggests he did. Ancient people, it was assumed were too sedentary, and apart from the Roman army, they did not take long trips by land or sea. Unfortunately for this theory, the evidence suggests something else. For one thing, Jews in the ‘western’ diaspora, were not simply carted off as slaves by Alexander and the Romans.
Should U.S. Law Require Displaying The Ten Commandments?

2 days ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

Texas Defies Supreme Court By Requiring Display of Ten Commandments in SchoolsLast week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state’s legislature have defied the federal government by passing a law requiring that the Bible’s “Ten Commandments,” in Exodus 20.2-17, be displayed in a 16″x20″ frame in all public schools and state-funded universities in Texas. This has happened before. In 1980, Kentucky did the same, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
Recent Developments At Laodicea-- Part Three

3 days ago | patheos.com | Ben Witherington

Laodicea is an ongoing project, and the latest development is fascinating. It involves Trajan’s provision of a fountain, complete with his statue, and some new rules about the use of water, which reminds me of the water restrictions you hear about from time to time in L.A. The climate at Laodicea is similar in that there is no rain to speak of during the hot summer months. Here is a shot of what the site looked like before the dig….
Justice Sotomayor Implies Trump Is A Man Of Lawlessness

3 days ago | patheos.com | Kermit Zarley

Justice Sotomayor’s DissentYesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed six of her Court colleagues for “rewarding lawlessness” regarding President Donald Trump. In a scathing 19-page dissent, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson on an immigration case in which the Court overruled an appeals Court and thereby favored the government deporting illegal immigrants to foreign countries other than their own country of origin.
A Neighbor, On A Dark Night

3 days ago | patheos.com | Mary Pezzulo

This isn’t a good story; just a true one. I haven’t seen the children I’ve referred to as the Artful Dodgers since last Friday. Friday, at ten in the morning, just as the catastrophic climate heat dome began to settle over the Ohio Valley, the five-year-old I call The Mandrake came up to the door by herself. She asked for a popsicle, and she got it. Later, I saw her walking with The Sylph, by themselves, far from their houses.
The Blockbuster Summer Movie 45 Years Ago - Catholic Bard

4 days ago | patheos.com | Mark Wilson

With all the strife, turmoil and unpleasantness permeating the news, its good to step back and escape to another world. Cinema provides that escape. And the movies of the early 80’s are great examples of that kind of escape. The movies that Gen-xers’s kids and grandkids watch on DVDs and streaming are the movies we watched in the theaters first run, all fresh and new on the big screen. The late 70’s and 80s were the films of our generation that still are watched by the newer generation.
Recent Developments At Laodicea-- Part Two

4 days ago | patheos.com | Ben Witherington

Turns out the agora had a beautiful colored wall, as we have mentioned before. But it also had a collonaded street with gorgeous marble columns. Laodicea was indeed a wealthy city as Revelation 3.14-22 also makes clear, but the city had a serious problem, a water problem, and for a city of about 100,000 or a little less this was indeed a serious issue. The water they had was brackish, not really very potable, with too much calcium carbonate.