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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....
October 2018
October 31, 2018
A Sacrificial Victim, the Unnamed Daughter of Jephthah
A story of a sacrifice that shouldn’t have happened seems an unlikely candidate for Jesus...
October 29, 2018
Cain and Abel: About Rivalry and What Jesus’ Gift of Himself is Not
Rivalry looms large in human history. We make ourselves rivals with each other and with...
October 26, 2018
Joachim Schellnhuber, Papal Adviser, Contemplates Global Warming, Cyborgs, and Reverse Creation
Joachim Schellnhuber is one of the world’s foremost experts on global warming. He helped advise...
October 24, 2018
Sacrifice Isaac? What Got into Abraham?
This series started with a story of human sacrifice that masquerades as a punishment for...
October 22, 2018
Two Original Sin Stories, the Devil’s and the Bible’s
The last post was a trip away from Bible stories for another story by René...
October 19, 2018
Memorial Statues, Memorial Days, and the Uses of History
Destroying two statues, of Saddam Hussein and of a Confederate general: morally the same or...
October 17, 2018
René Girard, Rivalry, the Scapegoat, Sacred Violence
I’ve been searching through the Old Testament for stories Jesus might have told the disciples...
October 15, 2018
Achan Suffers for the Israelites
In Luke's Gospel Jesus "opens up" the Scriptures for two disciples on the way to...
October 12, 2018
Mankato, Minnesota, Puts Indigenous Peoples Day on the Calendar
It’s October 12, the day an Italian explorer made landfall in what would become the...
October 10, 2018
Opening the Scriptures on the Way to Emmaus: Why Did Jesus Have to Suffer?
Introduction to the series Why did Jesus die? Jesus died to save us from sin...
October 08, 2018
Atonement and Some Odd Hypothetical Questions about Disciples
There are many theories of atonement in the history of Christian theology. Jesus reconciles us...
October 05, 2018
Sins as Evil as Abortion: Conclusions from Ancient Israelite and Modern European/American Experience
Abortion does not stand apart among sins that need challenging in the theater of American...
October 03, 2018
Civil Disobedience and the Puzzle that was Thursday: Why did Jesus Turn Himself In?
Jesus enters Jerusalem knowing authorities there wanted to kill him. For about four days he...
October 01, 2018
The Sacrament of Touch: We Touch Jesus’ Body and the Discipleship Story, Though Bruised and Broken, Carries On
Some people are auditory learners, some visual. Some, like me, relate to the world primarily...
September 2018
September 28, 2018
Indian Chief Asks: What Legacy am I Leaving for the Next Seven Generations?
What legacy, what kind of world, are we leaving for our children, grandchildren, and great...
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