National Catholic Reporter has this obituary of Sister José Hobday, a Franciscan nun who "thought that Christians have much to learn from the Native American tradition, including how to make prayer more creation-centered, how to have a greater appreciation of...
Earl Paulk founded of one of America's first megachurches in suburban Atlanta. He was honored by President Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush. But Paulk, who died this weekend of cancer, will be remembered most for the sex...
In this morning's paper, Sam Hodges has a moving obituary for Roy Harrell, the former chaplain at Thanks-Giving Square and a longtime champion of interfaith initiatives. Harrell died last Sunday of thyroid cancer, at 80. A memorial service will take...
During one of his two stints as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, the Rev. John F. Anderson founded the Stewpot, which became a nationally recognized ministry for the homeless. Anderson died over the weekend. Here's the obituary...
The obituary in this morning's paper says Thomas Tschoepe, who served as Dallas bishop from 1969 to 1990, was tirelessly devoted to his church. It notes that Tschoepe, a humble man, never wanted to be more than a pastor --...
Noodling around the Internet for "Richard John Neuhaus," I found this gem he wrote in 2006, a short commentary on what dopes most reporters are. It's not entirely inaccurate. Neither is it much different in tone from the generalized insulting...
Here's a 2006 review from The New York Times of one of Richard John Neuhaus's better-known books, Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth. In the book, Neuhaus, an intellectual leader of conservative Catholicism, argued that American Catholics...
The Rev. Dr. Robert J. Marshall, who led the the nation's largest Lutheran church in the 1970s and helped pave the way for its merger with two other denominations, died in Allentown, Pa.. Here's the obituary from The New York...
Her stirring interpretations of classic spirituals influenced a generation of folk singers, including Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, and became a soundtrack for the American civil rights movement. Here's a fine obituary from The New York Times. If you...
"My epitaph? My epitaph will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.'" -- Studs Terkel, author and Chicago cultural icon, who died Friday at 96 Photo: Studs Terkel celebrates winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his...
Robert Giroux, the legendary writer, editor, and publisher (he was a partner in Farrar, Straus and Giroux) died last week at 94. Here's his obituary from The New York Times. Over at In All Things, the blog of the Jesuit...
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering soul singer who died Sunday, is best known to a generation of younger fans not as the composer of the '70s mega-hit "Theme from Shaft," but rather as the voice of Chef, a popular character on...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure. He was 89. Here's the story from The New York Times....
We wrote about the death Sunday of the legendary 93-year-old Oak Cliff pastor. Sam Hodges and Roy Appleton followed up this morning with a story explaining just what it was that made Clark such an extraordinary, pioneering orator. You can...
Here's the story from this morning's front page. Clark, the longtime pastor of Good Street Baptist Church in Oak Cliff, spent more than 75 years in the pulpit. Think about that. Seventy-five years....
Here's the Associated Press story....
Sam Hodges wrote this obituary for the Rev. Gilbert Graham, who spent 27 years as administrator of St. Jude Chapel on Main Street in downtown Dallas, "celebrating Mass, hearing confession and counseling with equal devotion high-powered businessmen and the homeless."...
Some who responded to an earlier posting about the death of George Carlin said they would keep the comedian in their prayers. Carlin would have guffawed. He was an emphatic atheist, and there's just about nothing that he would have...
Few comedians were more scornful of organized religion. (One of his books was titled, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?") But few were more influential or original. Or funny. From The New York Times obituary: Although some criticized parts...
I posted an item yesterday about the death of gospel star Dottie Rambo. For some reason -- I blame sunspots -- the item showed up four times on the blog, and when I deleted the three duplicate entries, I...
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