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January 2023

January 28, 2023
Many times in the Gospels and, presumably, many times in historical reality Jesus gets in...
January 20, 2023
In a section of Mark’s Gospel that my Bible calls “The Tradition of the Elders,”...
January 12, 2023
A rich man asks Jesus how to inherit eternal life. It would seem to be...

December 2022

December 20, 2022
“Destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days.” (John 2:19) Could Jesus,...
December 13, 2022
The Healing of the Paralytic (Gospel of Mark 2:1-12) is Jesus’ challenge to the oppressive...

November 2022

November 29, 2022
A group of scholars called the Context Group has added to the number of people having their...
November 22, 2022
William T. Herzog’s book Parables as Subversive Speech uses historical-critical methods to unveil a “historical...
November 19, 2022
In Parables as Subversive Speech William Herzog takes us back to the time and place...
November 12, 2022
“… and they all lived happily, for a while, after.” That’s how Jesus could have...
November 04, 2022
Jesus told a parable in which a widow crosses the boundaries of social acceptability and...

October 2022

October 31, 2022
"Translator, traitor." The saying sounds better in Italian than in English, but it applies to...
October 28, 2022
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican occurs only in the Gospel of Luke....
October 18, 2022
I always pitied the third servant in the Parable of the Talents, the one who...
October 15, 2022
The crowd on Palm Sunday hailed Jesus as the new King David. Jesus twice (at...
October 11, 2022
In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus, the pedagogue of the oppressed,...
October 07, 2022
Sometimes in real life it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys....
October 02, 2022
Reading Parables as Subversive Speech, I’m letting William Herzog challenge my older reading of many...

September 2022

September 25, 2022
Pope Francis on Saturday spoke to a gathering of about 1000 young people in Assisi....
September 22, 2022
California now allows human composting as a way of returning the body of a deceased...
September 19, 2022
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian activist and academic. He taught, and led others to teach,...
September 09, 2022
William R. Herzog II says he wrote a book about Jesus’ parables after puzzling about...

August 2022

August 28, 2022
The Union of Concerned Scientists Says it Doesn’t and should be Scrapped A virtual-reality simulation...
August 19, 2022
This post traces the development of Catholic Church teaching on the morality of nuclear weapons....
August 13, 2022
Seventy-seven years ago the United States unleashed the power of the atom against two population...
August 06, 2022
It’s been 77 years since the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. On August...

July 2022

July 28, 2022
The year of the Lord’s favor – that’s what Luke says Jesus preached in Nazareth...
July 10, 2022
Debt is a major part of economic behavior in the modern world. That hardly distinguishes...

June 2022

June 05, 2022
The Minneapolis City Council in March approved a resolution to allow the public broadcast of...

April 2022

April 19, 2022
Thinking about Debt with Michael Hudson Jesus, a non-believer in trickle-up economics, chases the money...
April 11, 2022
  Why do we kneel during the Communion Rite? A small change in liturgical procedure...
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