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March 2019

March 22, 2019
Stories of Jesus, from Temptation to Cross From John, the last of the Gospel writers,...
March 20, 2019
Parkland shooting survivor on running for office: If that’s what it takes… Applause greeted David...
March 18, 2019
Stories of Jesus, from Temptation to Cross Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels give us an overture...
March 15, 2019
Biblical Faith, ‘About Real Historical Events’  The connection between blackface and Bible history may not seem...
March 13, 2019
In several posts I have presented a picture of angels and devils that seems far...
March 11, 2019
Thinking about the “things visible and invisible” of the Nicene Creed has resulted in several...
March 08, 2019
Many questions occur as I pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary: Why did Jesus...
March 06, 2019
Scientists are hard at work investigating the question, Is there life on other planets. They...
March 04, 2019
Walter Wink, a Methodist theologian and Bible scholar, has helped modern minds appreciate the New...
March 01, 2019
Reminiscing theologically about bells because the parish of my childhood decided to fix the bells...

February 2019

February 27, 2019
The highly symbolic angels of Church teaching and lore give us a clue to the...
February 25, 2019
Angels and devils don’t usually figure in our calculations about how to solve our problems....
February 22, 2019
                       ‘As stewards of God’s...
February 20, 2019
This post is an introduction to a series about angels, and it says approximately nothing...
February 18, 2019
God Made All Things, Visible and Invisible – and the Visible Might be the Hard...
February 15, 2019
Reading a recent Patheos post by Russell Saltzman on artificial intelligence got me thinking. I’d...
February 13, 2019
From the Jews we inherit their one God of History and the accompanying worldview of...
February 11, 2019
The story the Bible tells is a story of monotheism from beginning to end. But...
February 08, 2019
In what ways and how much should the Church should get involved in politics? Presumably the sanctity of life is...
February 05, 2019
Among my crowd of acquaintances and friends are some Pagans. Present-day Pagans believe in a...
February 03, 2019
The fourth word in the Nicene Creed is “one.” It distinguishes Jewish and Christian belief...
February 01, 2019
A priest in Madison, Wisconsin, got a laugh with the opening lines of his homily. He...

January 2019

January 30, 2019
Inclusive language is an important, but puzzling, theme in the Church's life. I was at...
January 28, 2019
There’s no question: The images the Bible uses for God are overwhelmingly male. God is...
January 25, 2019
Before Pope Saint John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries to the traditional Joyful, Sorrowful,...
January 23, 2019
The first thing we say about God in the Creed is that God is Father....
January 21, 2019
St. Paul wrote: “The weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Cor 1:25)...
January 18, 2019
I’ve been reciting two Christian Creeds (one of them by heart) since I was little....
January 16, 2019
Should Jesus have worked more miracles than he did? The atheist says, of course he should have....
January 14, 2019
The miracle stories in the Bible include legends and some amazing deeds of power that Jesus...
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