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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...
September 26, 2018
Apocalypse: A Plague (or is it Stars Falling) on Both Your Houses
The so-called “Little Apocalypse” in Mark is no prediction of a distant future end of...
September 24, 2018
Not Rendering to Caesar and Other Challenges on a Tuesday in Passover Week
Separation of church and state is not a first-century idea. Rendering something to Caesar and...
September 21, 2018
Hurricane Florence, Global Warming, and Ember Days
A thought and a prayer as people on the East Coast recover from Hurricane Florence:...
September 19, 2018
The Fig Tree and the Temple: Monday and Tuesday Morning
A fig tree helps us interpret one of the surest, but not always understood, facts...
September 17, 2018
Palm Sunday: A Procession with an Anti-climax
It’s Sunday in Passover Week—later for Christians it becomes the first Palm Sunday—and it’s a...
September 14, 2018
Ye Old Ember Days, a Good Fit for This Time of Prayer for Creation
This is a time of prayer for creation. (See this post on the World Day...
September 12, 2018
Mark’s Catechism, House Rules for God’s Kingdom
My catechism doesn't say it, but being a Christian means that powers of the world...
September 10, 2018
Resurrection: Puzzling with the Disciples about Jesus’ Predictions
Mark has Jesus predict both his passion and his resurrection three times. The disciples don’t...
September 07, 2018
Anti-Judaism: From Early Church to Basketball Courts and the Latest Religious Ed Videos
Anti-Judaism is represented (left photo)) in Medieval statues of...
September 05, 2018
The Transfiguration, Dazzling but not Triumphant
In the Transfiguration scene does Mark give us a brief glimpse of Jesus’ triumph over...
September 03, 2018
Bookends to the Transfiguration, Hope in the Dark, and a Guess about Jesus at Prayer
Jesus’ path gets increasingly dangerous as we move through Mark’s Gospel. At the same time...
August 2018
August 31, 2018
World Day of Prayer for Creation
Tomorrow is the day Christians pray for the earth. Pope Francis designated September 1 as...
August 29, 2018
The Kingdom of God, A Kingdom of Equals, Where Even Jesus Can Lose an Argument
The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of equals. Jews and foreigners, rich and poor,...
August 27, 2018
Gentiles in the Kingdom of God. Jesus Feeds the Multitude Twice
Why does Mark put two long stories of feeding the multitude into his short Gospel?...
August 24, 2018
Bishops Should Heed Call to End “Imperial Episcopate”
Bishops have a lot to think about these days. Maybe they should resign as a...
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