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January 11, 2019
Praying the Joyful Mysteries with Scripture
During the Advent and Christmas seasons I have been praying the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary...
January 09, 2019
Metaphors and Transcendence: Miracles and God’s relation to the world
In my daily prayers I ask God for favors: Help this one recover from surgery....
January 07, 2019
Miracle Stories, Science, and Jesus’ Humanity
Science does not easily accept as real an event that breaks the laws of nature....
January 04, 2019
Evangelization and a Thought about the Three Kings
Catholics that I know admire but feel uncomfortable about Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are the ones...
January 02, 2019
Bible Criticism and Jesus, the Miracle Worker
Jesus fully human is more central to Christian belief than Jesus the miracle worker. We have...
December 2018
December 31, 2018
Stories of Jesus, Intro to Part Two–Miracles, and Contents for the Series
The “Stories of Jesus" series continues with Part Two, the Miracles. This post looks briefly...
December 28, 2018
Returning to the Rosary: Catholics Pray to God with the Saints Sometimes
The Rosary is a lovely prayer, which I loved from a distance for most of...
December 26, 2018
The Creed, a Story that I Tell, Embellished a Bit
When I say the Creed, make my Profession of Faith at Mass, I’m not reciting...
December 24, 2018
Christmas Proclamation Puts Whole World into Jesus’ Story
Tonight many parishes will hear the Christmas Proclamation before Mass on the Eve of Christmas. This...
December 19, 2018
What’s So Fum About Christmas? Answers to the Christmas Carol Quiz
Christmas is a serious as well as a joyful season. You can find both feelings...
December 17, 2018
What’s So Fum about December 5 and 20 and What does ‘Fum’ Mean? A Christmas Carol Quiz
It’s the third week in Advent. Christmas is getting closer. A favorite Christmas carol awakens...
December 15, 2018
COP24 Metaphors: Children Playing Hide and Seek and King’s College Boys Choir
Advent is a season of waiting, and I have been awaiting the conclusion of the...
December 12, 2018
The Impossible Becoming Possible and Stories of the Christ Child
Recently the category of the impossible has become a theme for some theologians. If there’s...
December 10, 2018
The Story of the Magi and Biblical Historical Criticism
Christmas carols tell the story of Jesus that I first loved. Singing about manger, angels,...
December 07, 2018
Kurt Vonnegut’s Christmas Carol
Since I believe the humanity of Jesus is our best path toward understanding divinity, I...
December 05, 2018
Infancy Stories in Matthew and Luke: Credible History?
The infancy stories that we find in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke pose two...
December 03, 2018
The Quest of the Historical Jesus
Christianity finds ultimate meaning in a snippet of history with Jesus of Nazareth at its...
November 2018
November 30, 2018
Silence Honors a Work Well-Done and Makes Other Contributions to Liturgy
I was nearing the end of a presentation on the Mass to a Confirmation class....
November 28, 2018
History and the Historical Jesus
My proposal in this series on the Jesus of history and the character of God...
November 26, 2018
Getting Acquainted with the Historical Jesus and Getting to Know about God
On an intellectual level, God is marvelously hard to know. On the same level New...
November 23, 2018
An Advent Calendar and a Story World in a Skeptical Time
As the weeks of Advent get me looking toward Christmas, I think about how my...
November 21, 2018
Good News on the Way to Emmaus: Why the Messiah had to Suffer
I’ve been imagining which Scriptures Jesus "opened up" for the two disciples on the way...
November 19, 2018
The Sign of Jonah and a Tall Tale about a Prophet who Fails, Like Us
There are different opinions on whether the story of Jonah was a criticism of Jewish...
November 16, 2018
Cheating Death, Cheating Extinction
An article called “Cheating Death” appeared in Commonweal earlier this year. It made me think...
November 14, 2018
Ruth, a Romantic Tale of a Victim who Wins Out in the End, Like Jesus
In the Book of Ruth a member of a nation that Israel traded and warred...
November 12, 2018
Ezra and Nehemiah: Tribal Identity vs. Compassion
Two books in the Old Testament are ones I like least, and two are my...
November 09, 2018
Single-Use is Word of the Year as Election Mostly Ignores Environment
I read in the Guardian that Collins Dictionary has named single-use the 2018 word of...
November 07, 2018
Nothing is holy now. More Kings and Prophets
Holiness in a King David kind of religion doesn’t separate people from each other. David...
November 05, 2018
“Everything is Holy Now” — King David
Peter Mayer is a singer-songwriter occasionally heard on Minnesota Public Radio. One of his songs...
November 02, 2018
Caravan is a Nice Word: Pre-election Rhetoric versus Compassion
A caravan is a company of travelers on a journey through desert or hostile regions....
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