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Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani

Web Editor and Director of New Media
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Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and columnist who specializes in the intersection of faith and culture. Cathleen recently joined the staff of Sojourners as its Web Editor and Director of New Media, after having been the religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper for a decade. 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 earlier this fall. Cathleen lives in southern California with her husband and son.

Blog Posts by Cathleen Falsani

TRANSCRIPT: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 23 hours 48 min ago
Editor’s Note: At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2004, when I was the religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, I met then-State Sen. Barack Obama at Café Baci, a small coffee shop at 330 S....
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Just Say It: Be God's Love, Grace and Mercy Today
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 1 day ago
"You and I have the power to change someone’s day. And so I am going to challenge you, on this Valentine’s Day, to not only tell family members you love them, but also others whom you care for....
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Chocolate in the Baptismal Font: Things that Happen When Women Are Ordained
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 1 day ago
The Vicar of Dibley's Mother Geraldine is one of my all-time favorite television characters. Apart from her various entertaining antics, she also has a beautiful pastoral touch and way of...
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Whenever Two or More Are Gathered...Online
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 6 days ago
“There is no distance in the Spirit.”After 30 years as a believer, I experienced the truth of that statement — powerfully and indelibly — in an unlikely place: online.Like so many of more than 500...
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Afternoon Links of Awesomeness: Feb. 8, 2012
Posted by Cathleen Falsani 1 week 6 days ago
The Fray's Isaac Slade on life lessons from the president of Rwanda and Bono, who turns up in Timbuktu singing in French. (Really. We have video.)Who's your favorite on-screen Jesus? Why one author...
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Articles by Cathleen Falsani

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?

A Stand for Freedom
July 1, 2011

None of us is free until all of us are free.

Mustard Seed Power
May 1, 2011

Even the weakest faith can give us the strength to move mountains -- or climb them.

Soccer Moms Changing the World
March 1, 2011

I am convinced that real change happens right where we are.

Kennedy and Obama: The Faith Question
January 1, 2011

Jan. 20, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, our nation's first (and still only) Roman Catholic head of state.

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