New on the Blogroll: Steve Ray, and Defenders of the Faith

In a few minutes, I'll be going back to Our Lady of the Angels church, here in Sauk Centre, to hear Steve Ray - make that Stephen Ray - speak. He started out as a Baptist, started reading about the Catholic Church, and decided that the Pope is working for Jesus.

That's a gross oversimplification, but I don't think it's hit too far from the mark.

When he's not speaking, or writing books, Mr. Ray posts in his blog: called, accurately enough, Blog. Since he's made pretty good sense last night and this afternoon - and in the five posts I read - I added Blog to the blogroll under (naturally) Blogs.

• Blog
  www.catholic-convert.com/blog
  Stephen Ray, Defenders of the faith

The most recent five posts in Blog:

• "Parish Missions and Conferences during Lent"
  (March 13, 2011)
• "Political Views: Yeah, You Know What I Think?"
  (March 10, 2011)
• "Catholic Answers Live – Making the Most of Lent"
  (March 10, 2011)
• "The Skull is Talking to Me"
  (March 9, 2011)
• "Evangelicals with Statues?"
  (March 9, 2011)

Those posts range from a simple 'this is where I've been, this is where I am today' post, to a discussion of mortality and the Catholic faith. The latter includes a brief explanation of why Stephen Ray's wife wouldn't let him use a coffin as a coffee table.

Sort-of-related posts in this blog:

• "Steve Ray, Sauk Centre, Occam's Razor, and Me"
  (February 27, 2011)
• "Steve 'Crossing the Tiber' Ray: Coming to Sauk Centre"
  (February 16, 2011)
• "Unity, Diversity, and Being Catholic"
  (August 26, 2010)
• "Why Did I Convert to Catholicism?"
  (November 24, 2009)
• "Farrah Fawcett: Poster Girl; Actress and Catholic"
  (June 28, 2009)