Envoy Departments - Issue 4.5

Volume 4.5

The Pain of Grace By Joni J Seith A Christian Scientist with a Jewish granddaughter who makes Catholic T-shirts? No, we’re not making this up. Really. This young woman posed prickly questions about Jesus, so her rabbi asked her to leave the synagogue youth group. Her grandpa’s version of “faith” made him grumpy, so she stopped going to his Christian Science meetings. But her grandma’s peace and courage in the face of suffering paved the way for this Jewish woman’s conversion to Christ, entrance into the Catholic Church — and inspiring example of genuine faith in the midst of her own debilitating chronic pain. READ MORE...	The New Gnostic Gospel By Steve Kelmeyer Hollywood’s dabbling in religion again, and this time, they ain’t ringing The Bells of Saint Mary’s. In the box office hit The Matrix, they’re preaching that old-time religion . . . and we do mean old. The sets and costumes have changed, but the plot, characters and themes are all the same, borrowed from the first century A.D. Gnosticism, that ancient heresy, has come back — to a theater near you! READ MORE...

	As Received Readers share their opinions By Our Readers			Bible Basics The Tapestry of Acts By Steve Ray
	Going the Distance Torched by an Angel By Patrick Madrid			Nuts and Bolts Saints Alive! By Tim Staples
	Diplomatic Corps Covering the world, seen and unseen By Tim Drake			Soul Food to Go Are you singing? The power of joyful evangelists By Fr. Andrew Apostoli
	Friends in the Field Featuring The Dead Theologians Soicety and Catholic Kids Net By Caroline Schermerhorn			I Have a Question Adultery, the death penalty, and other thorny issues By Fr. Brian Wilson, L.C.
	Can We Talk? The true Catholic Feminist By Mary Beth Bonacci
	Rocking the Catholic Cradle Casual Sunday By Jim Moore			Power Tools Study Hard, Sing Sweet, And Pray By Paul Thigpen
	Family Matters Taming the Plastic Beast By Kristine L. Franklin			Site Seeing Chat and Chant By David Palm
	Gray Matters Myth Become Fact: A Christmas Reflection By Mark Lowery, PhD			InQUIZition Rack your brain and stretch your knowledge By Charles Harvey
	What Would You Do? What a difference ten years makes By Our Readers			At Ease Soul Survivor By The Editors