What Captures Our Attention

Rosie quit The View. This seemed to be the major news story of the last few weeks. Yesterday I read a Letter to the Editor of the Des Moines Register pleading with Rosie to take the higher ground and make amends with her foe, Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

All kinda sounds like the story line to a not-to-interesting soap opera.

Here's the question: If Rosie O'Donnell quitting the daytime television talk show The View is the major news story of the week (or even the day) what does that say about our society and culture?

Here's some sage advice from long ago: Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

I don't think the story of Rosie O'Donnell quitting a talk show qualifies.

More on Faith in the Public Arena (Iowa State University)

There seems to be a growing interest in the idea of a privately funded Chaplin for the Iowa State University football team. Actually, it is more like a groundswell of opposition based on the idea of separation of church and state.

In the M*A*S*H television series, I remember something Father Mulcahey once said. Father Mulcahey, played by Bill Christopher, was the Army CHAPLAIN!

So where is this imaginary line separating church and state?