By: Dan Waterhouse In late January, Fresno City Council member Larry Westerlund announced that he was throwing his hat in the ring and running in the Republican primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
The Fresno Bee Four
By: Alex Vavoulis On the passing of James Bort, Jr., on January 20, 2010, many will feel the pain of the family as it grieves for a loved one. Many will also think about the value of a free press [...] Continue Reading
Comcast Wants to Take Over NBC: Why It Matters to You
By: Liz Rose You may have heard that Comcast, the big cable and Internet company, wants to take over NBC Universal. Why should that matter to you? It matters, especially to people who live in the [...] Continue Reading
Waiting for Steinbock
By: Dennis Caeton Fresh from the pews of St. Paul Newman Center (a Catholic parish) in Fresno, a few weeks before my birthday, I felt compelled to enter the rare air of the Diocese, the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion Is Not an Oxymoron
Apocalypse 2012 AD! By: David Roy The latest in a seemingly nonstop series of apocalyptic visions of the end of the world comes to us with amazing CGI (computer-generated imagery) virtuosity in the [...] Continue Reading
Be the Media
By: Mike Rhodes Do you watch the TV news or read the daily paper and think, “Something’s missing here. Where are the stories about the people I know? Where are stories about the issues that affect me [...] Continue Reading
Schlepping over the Rainbow
By: Dennis Caeton The Questions It is in the trenches of Catholicism where the real clash of faith and the world goes on. That is where the priests are. And that is where the children are, floating [...] Continue Reading
And What Is Christian About That?
By: Roy David The January tragedy in Haiti, laid to waste by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, provided another opportunity for people who call themselves Christian to make some profoundly [...] Continue Reading
Historic Property Owned by Fresno Religious-Based Nonprofit May Be Rescued by Local Taxpayers
By: Dan Waterhouse If the lender agrees, the Fresno Housing Authority will rescue H. Spees’ One By One Leadership property along both sides of historic L Street, a few blocks away from the failed [...] Continue Reading
Fresno State Should Support Academic Freedom—Not Hate Radio
By: Richard Gomez Among the “big boys” in our city, Fresno State ranks right up there as an influential giant. The decisions it makes and the values it demonstrates are visible and important. Often [...] Continue Reading
Credo
By: Richard Stone Matthew 25:26 says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” My colleague, Maria Telesco, understands the passage as a pronouncement by Jesus that the redemptive work his life [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading