From The Shibboleth: "One of the major projects of this blog is to start a discussion about the faith, especially in helping people understand what it means to have faith. I’ve learned some things as I rediscovered my faith over the years, and I’d like to help others who may be going through a similar journey  by sharing the little information I know. So, I’d like to make a regular thing where we can get the nagging questions on the table and hopefully fostering a discussion." - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

"So on every Friday, I’ll try to answer a question from you, the reader, to the best of my ability. I’ll do as much research as I can: finding the relevant passages, and other commentaries on the subject. We can then talk about those questions in the comments and hopefully each week we can leave with more answers than questions. So, leave a question in the comments or email me at mark@theshibboleth.com. I’ll be as discrete as you want me to be: if you want to be anonymous, just let me know." - Mark Trapp

Seeing some of the religious "discussions" on FriendFeed, I think this might be interesting to some people, so I'm shamelessly bumping this. Any religious/theological questions you have that you'd like to see someone spend some time researching? - Mark Trapp

Is it true that the Catholic church acknowledges the biblical Sabbath as the 7th day of the week (Saturday), yet continue to observe it on Sunday? Even though they are the ones who are responsible for changing it? - Shey

Thanks for the question, Shey. I'm really liking this question: it's straightforward, something that can be researched, and an excellent discussion topic. It's likely that I'll use it as the inaugural question on Friday. - Mark Trapp