Greg Ruehlmann writes on humorous, religious and cultural topics in publications including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Morning News, Busted Halo, National Catholic Reporter and National Lampoon.

	March 15th, 2011 Green With Envy on St. Patrick's Day You have to hand it to the Irish. Every March 17th, they put on the party of the season. Celtic or not, everybody ...
	December 31st, 2009 Faithful Departed — Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009) It's difficult now to grasp what a radical thing Eunice ...
	May 20th, 2009 Angels and Demons — mindless and mild Uproar over this summer action flick is wasted breath In the gospel according to Ron Howard, absolutely everything is ominous when it's undertaken at the Vatican. Whether it's a member of the curia strolling ...
	December 30th, 2008 Faithful Departed—Paul Scofield (1922-2008) During the nearly sixty years he graced stage and screen, ...
	October 14th, 2008 Seductive, Reductive, Religulous Bill Maher issues a “call to atheist arms” in his latest documentary In May of 2002, the comic Bill Maher faced the studio audience of his long-running program Politically Incorrect for the first time since learning ABC was canceling the show. As he sometimes did, Maher began ...
	June 6th, 2008 Great Expectations Prince Caspian struggles to recapture the magic of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe It’s not easy being a villain in Narnia. Twice now, in the two movies based on C.S. Lewis’ beloved series, the bad guys begin with the whole world in their ...
	May 29th, 2008 Barack Obama’s “Faith Lit” The Obama campaign in the South is working overtime to correct the rumor that their candidate is a Muslim A recent telephone call illustrates the problem. Deb Geissler of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is working the phone bank for Barack Obama headquarters in her home state, when she reaches ...
	May 21st, 2008 Survival of the Witless? Expelled manages to lose Ben Stein’s funny Since his first, monotone date with cinematic history in 1986’s Ferris Bueller, Ben Stein has carved a public career out of slight, but reliably charming variations on a single character: himself. ...
	May 14th, 2008 Stranger than Science Fiction ...or, How in the world did the creator of Roger Rabbit and the Archbishop of Newark end up collaborating on a sci-fi novel together? The book is called Space Vulture, and it's a far-out, one-of-a-kind project, even by science fiction standards. The cover features a throwback, Flash-Gordon-style photo of a caped villain ...
	May 1st, 2008 Boss Time A twenty-six year old reflects on Bruce Springsteen's continued magic A memory: I am three years old, watching MTV. A man on a stage wearing tight jeans and a white button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled ...
	March 30th, 2008 Hammering Kids for Christ Controversial Catholic youth minister Justin Fatica is tough and bruised, but soft-hearted, and few dispute he has a knack for reaching troubled kids The children who show up for Kids ALIVE in Burlington's Old North End number between 40 and 50, and most range in age from about 8 to 16. Many ...
	March 25th, 2008 On the Road to Andalusia A pilgrimage to Flannery O’Connor's Georgia home You’ll find her along the fence line of Memory Hill Cemetery, to the left. The grave sits in a family plot. There are Treanors and Clines—relations of her mother’s—and ...
	March 21st, 2008 In The Dark Dark, noisy and nearly forgotten, a 20-something makes a case for reviving Tenebrae It is the great peculiarity of the Church of Rome, that it presents to its worshipers an extraordinary variety of services, each of which has a special significance and ...
	January 25th, 2008 Bloody Hell Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood stuns and confounds Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood literally starts off with a thud. Only a few minutes into the film, set in late 19th and early 20th century ...
	January 7th, 2008 Odyssey Catholics Young and restless Justin Brandon has been weighing his options. The 25-year-old San Francisco resident recently applied to Stanford's highly competitive MBA program, but even if admitted, he isn't sure he wants ...
	December 12th, 2007 Scrooge in Reverse The true meaning of A Charlie Brown Christmas Most people respond to the approach of Christmas with a happy blizzard of activity. They lick stamps and fix them to final flurries of Christmas cards. They bake. They ...
	November 16th, 2007 Boomer Bummer Redford's Lions for Lambs paints 20-somethings with broad strokes "Rome is burning, son!" So says Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford) to a disaffected student named Todd in Redford's new film, Lions for Lambs. It's an alarming ...
	October 11th, 2007 Wild World Sean Penn's Into the Wild stuns and disappoints How much of your life do you owe to the ones who love you? What are your obligations to the imperfect people who raise and ...
	September 25th, 2007 Cracking Open a Stained Glass Saint Mother Teresa's life in full Saints are most commonly seen in two dimensions, as they appear in devotional artwork. Frozen in stained glass or canvas, they serenely eye the heavens as their hands ...
	February 21st, 2006 Blessed Among All Women Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do. When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of "365 saints, prophets and witnesses for ...